"The Green Vase" Accepted in to the 24th Annual Cinco Banderas Competition

"The Green Vase" makes a second appearance in the Artel Gallery! This time, the juror David Braly--the nationally recognized artist from Montgomery, AL--voted it into the Twenty-fourth Annual Cinco Banderas Competition. It did not make its way in to the permanent collection; however, the second work I submitted was purchased! You can read about it in tomorrow's post.

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Best of Show at Artel Gallery

What better way to begin a new blog than with celebratory news.This spring I discovered the Artel Gallery (@artelPensacola), in Pensacola, FL. I saw two amazing shows: the Women's Show and "Art As Social Discourse." After learning that the shows were juried but open to all artists, and although I'd never considered entering a juried show before, I took the plunge and entered their edgy still-life competition, "Fruits, Vegetables and All Things Still."

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