Our Annual Quincy Society of Fine Arts Awards Luncheon was held. Travis Brown had the honors of introducing David Boster, the QSFA President. Mr. Boster took the opportunity to discuss the international and national search that took place for a new Executive Director. After an extensive search they realized the best person for the job was right under their nose in Lenny Bart. Lenny took time to share some statistics which included the following. 49% of Americans attended some sort of visual arts event last year. 25% attended some sort of outdoor arts event and 50% of Americans either created or shared someone else's art last year. At that point the new Executive Director Bart introduced The Quincy Herald Whig's new General Manager Ron Wallace and WGEM's General Manager Carlos Fernandez. Although they tried, the team of Wallace and Fernandez didn't quite get to the level of Abbott and Costello. A for effort though. Mayor Kyle Moore became the sixth person to be introduced and he had the honors of announcing the winners of the various awards. Prior to the announcement, Mayor Moore shared that every dollar spent on the arts translates to 3 or 4 dollars to the city. Here were the winners of the 2013 City of Quincy Arts Awards sponsored by the Quincy Herald Whig and WGEM: