Arts & Entertainment
Gaithersburg Artists Win Awards at Countywide Show
Several Gaithersburg artists won awards at the 37th Annual Community Art Show and Sale at the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase. April 1 (from 1-5 p.m.) is the last day to see the show.
Fourteen Gaithersburg artists and seven who have recently exhibited through the City of Gaithersburg are showing their work in a pool of more than 150 in the 37th Annual Community Art Show and Sale of the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase.
The three-day show takes place every spring and raises money for a Montgomery College art scholarship fund for one local student.
While anyone can submit artwork, most artists are from Montgomery County.
This year's show takes place from March 30 - April 1 and includes 463 individual works of art.
Exhibition judge Susan Goldman, an internationally recognized artist and master printmaker, awarded 20 Honorable Mention, 11 First Place, Second Place and Third Place, and one Best in Show awards to selected participants in the following categories: oil, acrylic, watercolor, photography, sculpture, miniature, mixed media, printmaking and drawing.
Among those representing Gaithersburg were: Gaithersburg Fine Arts Association members Barbara Bauer, Pooja Campbell, , Jacqueline Detrick, , Valthea McGee Fry, , Angela Lacy, Grace Newcomer, , Ruta Slekys, and Gaithersburg artists Dennis Johnson, Shirley Welch and Craig Whitt. Cohan won First Place in the mixed media category and Newcomer won Third Place in drawing with pastels. Fritter won an Honorable Mention award in the oil category.
Participating artists who have shown with the City of Gaithersburg in the past two years at the Activity Center in Bohrer Park, the Arts Barn and Kentlands Mansion include: Sara Becker, Jesse Berry, Joan Eames, Lieta Gerson, Christina Haslinger, Nancy Heindl, Michiyo Mizuuchi of the OUTLOUD Artists and Audrey Salkind. Mizuuchi received an Honorable Mention award in watercolor.
Founded in 1913, the Woman's Club of Chevy Chase is an affiliate of the General Federation of Woman's Clubs. The organization supports the arts through its annual art show and sale, by providing studio space for art classes in its Chevy Chase building and by organizing an annual high school art show every spring.
