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Michigan Fine Arts Competition  |  2010 Michigan Fine Arts Competition Prospectus

The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center hosts the 28th annual Michigan Fine Arts Competition, April 2 – May 7, 2009.
If you wish to be added to the MFAC notification database at any time, e-mail Exhibitions Coordinator,
MikeDennie@BBArtCenter.org.


About the 2010 Juror

Sondra Freckelton,

Sondra Freckelton was born in Dearborn, Michigan in 1936 and studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She began her career as a sculptor working in wood and plastics, exhibiting under her married name, Sondra Beal.

During the early 1970's Ms. Freckelton was one of several noted abstract artists who turned to realism in their work. She began working in transparent watercolor -- a logical extension of the delicate watercolor studies she had done for her transparent cast-resin sculptures. Numerous museums, galleries and traveling shows throughout the United States have exhibited her watercolors. She has had solo exhibits at major galleries in New York, Chicago, Washington, D. C., and San Francisco. Various public and corporate collections include her paintings. Ms. Freckelton's work and teaching philosophy are the subjects of the recent Watson-Guptill publication entitled Dynamic Still Lifes in Watercolor by M. Stephen Doherty. She also teaches watercolor workshops and judges art competitions. Sondra Freckelton and her husband, artist Jack Beal, live and work near Oneonta, New York, and in New York City.

 

Awards to be given out


First Place Award - $1,000


Second Place Award - $500


Third Place Award - $375


Five Honorable Mention Awards - $125

 


History of the MFAC

The Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center hosts the Michigan Fine Arts Competition each spring since 1982 when the Detroit Institute of Arts turned the statewide competition over to the BBAC. For 28 years, approximately 500 artists from the entire state of Michigan have entered the competition annually.

Many competition winners have gone on to national prominence as a result of this competition. Each year, the MFAC is juried by an artist or curator of distinction, who selects current work of the highest quality from across our state. Cash awards support our finest working artists, while recognizing the contributions they make to the cultural fabric of our state.



Past MFAC Jurors

1982

Grace Hartigan

1996

Jane Hammond

1983

Philip Pearlstein

1997

John Walker

1984

Miriam Schapiro

1998

Larry Rivers

1985

Richard Anuskiewicz

1999

Nancy Mitchnick

1986

Romare Bearden

2000

Howardena Pindell

1987

Judy Pfaff

2001

Brenda Goodman

1988

Alice Aycock

2002

Nick Cave

1989

Patterson Sims

2003

Richard Nonas

1990

Gracie Mansion

2004

Al Hinton and Sei Saito

1991

Alvin Loving

2005

Susan Wilczak

1992

Gladys Nilsson

2006

Jerry Berger

1993

Laura Trippi

2007

Gerry Craig, Rebecca Hart, Janet Teunis, and Susan VanArendonk

1994

Ellen Phelan

2008

Brian Rutenberg

1995

James DelGrosso

2009 Tony DeBlasi



 
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