61st Annual Open 

Exhibition Winners

Best in Show

Anna Rita Miller   “Blooming”  

Two-dimensional paintings. 

Oil and acrylics

First Place

Marion E. R. Ochs

“Proceed on the Journey”   

Second Place

Glenn C. Higgins

 “My Blue Heron”  

Third Place

Nancy Lowentitt  

“Japanese Blooms Gone Wild  

Honorable Mentions 

Cindy Grega 

“Abandoned”

Karen Ziebarth 

“Cypress Sunset”

CB Humes 

“Leisure Gardens”

Paul Guidry 

“Moonlit Flight”

Andrea Hano

Above the Canopy 2

Two-Dimensional Art B: 

watercolors, Pastels, Collage., mixed media, monotype hand-produced prints, drawings.  

First Place

Theresa Beaubouef 

“Swamp Walk – Waitin' on a Train” 

Second Place

Craig Braquet

 "The Giant Wave” 

Third Place

Suzanne Shumate 

“Black Bayou Heron” 

Honorable Mentions 

Harriet L. Mayeaux 

“Reflections”  

Craig Braquet 

“Hazy Prairie Daisies”  

Gisela Niedenfuer 

“Ancient Oak and Azaleas”  

Craig Braquet

Grandmas Boot  

PaulamPounds

Song of Woman

Sculpture Three-Dimensional

First Place

Otto Ochs

“Celestial Silence” 

Second Place

Jim Creel 

“Fidelity” 

Third Place

Laura Jones 

“White Egret” 

Honorable Mentions 

Jim Creel 

“The Pond”  

Functional Art

First Place

Mary Smith 

“Marsh Jar” 

Second Place

Laura Jones 

“Playing with Pastels” 

Third Place

William Ochs

 “The Game Table”  

Honorable Mentions 

Sherri White 

“Natural Selection”  

Sherri White 

“Nesting”  

Jim Creel 

“The Rose Bowl”  

Image Development

First Place

Yvonne Miller Nixon

“Stasis (Pete’s Lake Diptych)” 

Second Place

William Ochs 

“The Beginning of the End” 

Third Place

Yvonne M. Nixon 

“Physostegia Digitalis” 

Honorable Mentions 

Gayle Miller 

“Up, Up and Away”  

Yvonne M. Nixon 

“Bird Water Fog”