Our prize judge has been Kathrine Page, a Delaware and NYS-based gallerist, curator, teacher and museum manager whose decades of experience span a large variety of artforms and exhibiting circumstances. She writes:<\/p>\n

The works selected for the eight awards were inclusive of the categories I established at the outset of jurying. I began by viewing all the work collectively then individually in the slideshow mode. After several screenings, I determined the final eight works and set up a matrix to score, and ranked them according to category: composition, color, technical rendering, creativity with material, concept, mood, presentation. Regardless of whether the works were abstract or representational, the sensory impact of each commanded my attention and guided my ultimate decisions. A number of works held striking compositions, while others held sway with more nuanced arrangement of shapes or use of color. Visual texture also drew me in for closer inspection of material use and technical rendering and overall quality of presentation. In all, I felt the artworks clearly displayed the vibrancy of human experience and emotion with exceptional aesthetic understanding. Congratulations to all!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cDecember Show Goes National\u201d Annual Juried Show Dec. 1 Exhibit opens Dec. 4 Notification of award recipients Dec. 31 Exhibit closes The State of the Art Gallery is owned and operated by 25 visual artists in the Finger Lakes region of New York. We keep an exhibit space in downtown Ithaca rotating through a monthly […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":8711,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9157"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9157"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12294,"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9157\/revisions\/12294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/staging.soagithaca.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}