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2017 National Juried Photography Exhibition Winners

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The 2017 National Juried Photography Exhibition, sponsored by the Academy Center of the Arts, has passed and the winners have been announced! See below for the list of cash awards given this year.

 

Academy Center of the ArtsBest in Show:

$1000 award to John Lofaso for ‘Raccoon”

 

 

 

Academy Center of the Arts2nd Place Award

$600 award to Robert Hein for ‘Waves”

 

 

 

Academy Center of the Arts3rd Place Award

$400 award to Sam Krisch for ‘Untitled Namibia”

 

 

 

Academy Center of the ArtsJuror’s Choice Award

$300 award to Michele Sons for ‘Dance of the…”

 

 

 

Juror’s Choice Award

$200 award to Melissa Stanton for ‘Wild Flowers”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academy Center of the ArtsJuror’s Choice Award

$1500 award to Erika Cespedes for ‘Broken Down”

 

 

 

 

Academy Center of the ArtsJuror’s Choice Award

$100 award to David Eakin for ‘Morning at 7″

 

 

 

 

 

 

Academy Center of the ArtsJuror’s Choice Award

$100 award to Kathy Cudlin for ‘Grand Central Station”

 

 

 

 

 

Academy Center of the ArtsJuror’s Choice Award

$100 award to Karen Covey for ‘Parachute Jump”

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the 2017 Juror – Carolyn Russo

Carolyn Russo is a recipient of the 9th Julia Margaret Cameron Award for Women Photographers and the 2016 Tokyo International Photography Awards. She is the author of four photography books: Art of the Airport Tower (Smithsonian Books, Fall 2015), In Plane View: Abstractions of Flight (powerHouse Books, 2007), Artifacts of Flight (Harry N. Abrams, 2003), and Women and Flight: Portraits of Contemporary Women Pilots (Bulfinch Press, 1997). Her photographs have been widely exhibited in both solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Finland, and China.

Russo is a museum specialist and photographer with the Smithsonian in Washington, D.C. since 1988 where she creates original photography projects, curates art exhibitions, and acquires art for the museum. She has lectured internationally and was an invited participant with the U.S. Embassy in Helsinki, Finland. In 2016, she was an artist in residence at NES in the remote town of Skagaströnd, Iceland.

Carolyn has a B.F.A. in photography and studied in Boston, MA at the Massachusetts College of Art and The School of the Museum of Fine Arts as well as at Richmond College and Heatherly School of Fine Arts in London, England, and the Studio Arts Center International in Florence.

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