October 18 – December 15, 2024
Opening Reception on Friday, October 18th.
The Annual Wabash Valley Exhibition invites artists from six states – Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee – to share their artworks for consideration. Submitted pieces will be reviewed by a jury, with selected works being considered for awards. These chosen artworks will find a home within the walls of the respected Swope Art Museum during the exhibition.
MEET OUR JUROR
Clifford Tresner earned a BFA in Sculpture and Woodworking from Indiana State University and received his MFA from The University of Mississippi in Oxford in 1994.Â
Tresner is the William D. Hammond Endowed Professor of Liberal Arts, and the Art Program Coordinator at the University of Louisiana Monroe.
Tresner’s awards include Best in Show in the Louisiana Contemporary at the Ogden Museum of Southern Art; a Purchase Award from the Mathews-Sanders Sculpture Garden, Cleveland, MS; a Purchase Award at the 31st Annual McNeese National Works on Paper at McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA; and a Louisiana Division of Arts Fellowship.
Tresner has an extensive exhibition record in drawing, painting, and sculpture at venues including the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Museum, Lafayette LA; Newcomb Gallery, Tulane University; Memphis College of Art; University of Arkansas at Little Rock; Masur Museum of Art, Monroe LA; Huntsville Museum of Art, AL; and the Arthur R. Pierce Gallery, West Virginia Institute of Technology.
2024 Wabash Valley Award List:
Grand Prize Awards
Howard E. Wooden, Sr. Memorial Best of Show Grand Prize
Emily Hayden, Fort Wayne, IN, Nighttime Browsing
Quinquagenary Grand Prize in painting given in memory of Emily Cox Gedrick
Michael Neary, Terre Haute, IN, The Fabulous Flying Nonesuches
Bill Carls Grand Prize Award
Nikole Collier, Blue Springs, MO, Chased Tool Containers: Branches and Elevation
Award of Excellence
Brenda Milliren Award of Excellence
Cody Winter, Toledo, OH, A Faded Day
Sarah Decker Ning Award of Excellence
Janet Kappes, Charleston, IL, Rolling, Rolling, Rolling
Awards of Distinction
Alliance of the Swope Award of Distinction
James Swanson, LaGrange Park, IL, Egg Gathering
Jacquelyn & Rod Bradfield Award of Distinction
Victoria Senn, McHenry, IL, Snatch Of The Day
Sherry Dailey Award of Distinction in honor & memory of Shirley Williams Dailey Bennett by her daughter
Ashley Littlejohn, Martinsville, IL, Telluride Sheep
Awards of Honor
Alliance of the Swope Award of Honor
John Benton, Chicago, IL, Limestone Overpass #2
Anonymous Award of Honor
Terry Lacy, Monticello, IN, Tornado
Susan & George Brattain Award of Honor
Gregory Steel, Kokomo, IN, Ryoshi (Fisherman)
Elizabeth & William Hine Award of Honor
Emily Bennett, Terre Haute, IN, Flower Nymph
Nancy & Fred Nation Award of Honor
Michele Childs, Indianapolis, IN, Beauty of Decay #5
Sarah Decker Ning Award of Honor
Brian Charles Johnson, Scottsburg, IN, Common Nuisance
Rachel Berenson Perry Award of Honor for a work on paper
Christopher Dolan, Berwyn, IL, ReUse Depot
Eileen Prose Award of Honor in memory of Ted Prose
David Gill, Clay City, IN, One Spring’s Tulips
Frank Swaim Award of Honor
Nickie Gunning, Pontiac, MI, Ovate Dissociate
Jim Stuart & Julia Turner Award of Honor in memory of Phyllis Dye Turner
Alicia Dawn Criswell, Lafayette, IN, Salvaged
Alliance of the Swope People’s Choice Award
T.B.D. at end of exhibition
Awards of Recognition
Anonymous Award of Recognition
Tatsuki Hakoyama, Grand Rapids, MI, A Rhymeless Word in a Poem of Time
Anonymous Award of Recognition in honor of Kathy Brentlinger
Phoebe Scott, Spencer, IN, Janus
Arts Illiana Award of Recognition
Mark Burkett, Mooresville, IN, Downstream
Ellie M. Caldwell, CPA Award of Recognition
Maggie Capettini, Downers Grove, IL, midwestern spring
Bettina Galey-Horrall Award of Recognition in honor of Benjamin Franklin Elementary School
Martin Arnold, Sterling Heights, MI, Anjie!
Lind & Felling Award of Recognition
Babelon Williams, Indianapolis, IN, Marlboro Male
Laney Meis Award of Recognition
Cherie Kimmell, Nashville, TN, June
Dr. Robert H. Puckett Award of Recognition in memory of Barbara C. Puckett
James Shepard, West Terre Haute, IN, PEACE IN THE JUNGLE
Joan & David Zaun Award of Recognition
Michael Bruner, Mascoutah, IL, South 17th Street nights
Awards of Merit
Danette Angermeier Memorial Fund of the WVCF Award of Merit
Diane Staver, Kokomo, IN, Crown Point, Vintage
Michael D. Buzash Annual Artistic Award of Merit
Rodney Margison, Bloomington, IN, Impostore
Purchase Awards
Ellie M. Caldwell, CPA Purchase Award
John Benton, Chicago, IL, Limestone Overpass #2
Eleanor Jones & Alec Jacobs Purchase Award
Alicia Dawn Criswell, Lafayette, IN, Metamerism
Eleanor Jones & Alec Jacobs Purchase Award
Nicole Gruenwald, Terre Haute, IN, Commitment
The Gully Jimson Purchase Award
Cody Winter, Toledo, OH, A Faded Day
Pi Kappa Alpha – ISU Purchase Award
Craig Barton, Ellettsville, IN, Dream Series: Three Textures in Black and White
Pi Kappa Alpha – ISU Purchase Award
Alicia Dawn Criswell, Lafayette, IN, Salvaged
Ellie & Richard Templeton Purchase Award
Linda Sievers, Bloomington, IN, Autumn’s Arrival
