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VAAL Art Show Sep. 2016

Greetings Everyone! I am so happy to participate in this year’s VAAL Art Show.

The Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange VAAL brings together local artists to share ideas, amplify their visibility and expand the art community. Every year the members of VAAL have an art show where we can exhibit our latest artwork and invite the community to share and enjoy the Arts!!

VAAL is located in LaGrange GA, but the community artists VAAL represents are from all over Georgia and part of Alabama. Last Friday September 2nd 2016 was the opening reception of the annual VAAL Art Exhibition.This Show enables local amateur and emerging artists who are members of the VAAL to exhibit their work, this time in Lagrange Art Museum.Awards were given by  Dennis Harper, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at the Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Arts at Auburn University.

Also the Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange proudly features the art of the Austin Wieland The whole 2nd floor of the LaGrange Art Museum is filled with Wieland’s mechanic-ceramic artwork. It’s really cool and interesting to see how these ceramic objects move in mechanical way.

According to Dennis Harper, juror of the Art Show, The Visual Artists Alliance of LaGrange granted awards & cash prizes to the following members:

VAAL exhibition at the LaGrange Art Museum 2016

vaal-sep-2016Grand prize. Steve Close. Cooling off
Best of show. Cindy Fulks. Summers bounty
First place. Gail Grice. Breakfast at Helen’s
Second place. Sarah Swanson. Plunderer
Third place. Lori Harrell. Running through the prairie
Fourth place. David Guinn. Babooshka Nadia
Fifth place. Mary feels. Jingle bells
Sixth place. Me!. Secrets
Award of merit. Raymond Stewart.Kopechme notes
Special award. Sandy Cox. The pitch
Honorable mention. Charlie Warner. Hidden in the headwaters

Dennis Harper, juror would have liked to give Janine Bradfield.bowl of cherries, DJ McElvy.freedoms expense, Keith Parmer.heavenly angel awards but understood he was out of ribbons!

I, Jaasiel Barrientos, am very happy to participate in this years show with 2 abstract paintings: WaterSky and EarthSand and 1 print called: Core

The show will be open from September 2nd to September 30 2016. At LaGrange Art Museum. 112 Lafayette Pkwy, Lagrange, GA 30240, USA   Phone: (706) 882-3267

Come see the show.