Artist Award Winners are determined by a annually-changing panel of independent jurors, and the 2011 on-site panel of jurors was comprised of Danyl Cook, Denver, CO: Professional Visual Artist; Deborah Howard, Denver, CO: Professor of Art / Head of the Painting Program at the University of Denver and Visual Artist; Jerry Dale McFadden, Chattanooga, TN: Artistic Director and Gallery Manager for the Association for Visual Arts.   

Best of Show: Dean Lucker & Ann Wood, Mixed Media, booth #90

2nd Place: Aaron Hequembourg, Mixed Media, booth #4

3rd Place: Tim Hooper, Painting, booth #227

Merit Awards: Michael Cole, Photography, booth #40; Brian McGuffey, Painting, booth #150; Mark Winter, Sculpture, booth #34; Chris Vance, Painting, #108; and Dolan Geiman, Mixed Media, booth #131.

Juror's Awards: Danyl Cook has recognized Signe & Genna Grushovenko, Painting, booth #147; Deborah Howard has recognized Dale Rayburn, Printmaking, booth #148; and Jerry Dale McFadden has recognized Heinrich Toh, Printmaking, booth #16.

The Festival congratulates the award winners of the 2011 event and thanks all 230+ of this year's exhibiting artists for their outstanding work. 

The 11 winners are the only artists in the entire group that are automatically invited to return for the 2012 Festival.  Otherwise, entry into CCAF next year will be highly competitive as always. Because of the tremendous quality of the 2011 winners' work, excitement for next year is already building - 2012 promises to be better than ever.  

2011 CCAF Artist Award Winners and CCAF President and CEO, Terry Adams. Photo by Patty Penta

Define the landscape of Cherry Creek North 

with your public art contribution!

   Colorado Artists Apply now at  www.callforentry.org

APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 17, 2011 midnight (MST)  

The home of the Arts Festival for the past twenty years has been the Cherry Creek North District. This district, Denver's most vibrant outdoor shopping experience, has just finished its twenty million dollar renovation. There are now 20 new art and garden spaces with benches, tables and chairs, elegant lighting and creative landscaping.   

The Arts Festival is pleased to provide the first in the next generation of public artwork to the district known as the Public Art in Cherry Creek Program or PACC. Please forward to others that may be interested! 

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"My ideas are developed as I paint which is why I enjoy the process so much. I work to create a piece that has multi layers...a strong visual image combined with an underlying story that is ever changing. I want my paintings to make you laugh. I want my paintings to make you feel guilty for laughing. I want my paintings to stay with you when you leave. I want my paintings to make you giggle in church when you recall one. I want you to see the face of your neighbor in my work. I want you to see reflections of yourself in my work... because I see myself in each piece and it makes me smile."

For the 2011 Cherry Creek Arts Festival, he created a collaborative piece of artwork based upon "things you wouldn't believe." This work of art was created and finished LIVE at the Arts Festival with over 1,000 responses.   

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