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Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Hunting Art Prize finalists announced
A total of 134 Texas artists have been selected to move on to the final round of judging in the 2009 Hunting Art Prize, Hunting PLC, the Houston-based oil services company that grants the award announced today.
The $50,000 prize — a bit of a curiosity in the Lone Star State art world — is open to established, emerging, or amateur artists that are residents of the State of Texas and who are at least 18 years of age or older. Only paintings or drawings can qualify and an artist can only submit one work. No prints, photographs, collages, sculpture, found object assemblages or computer-generated works
The award came to Texas in 2006 from the UK when Hunting PLC moved its corporate headquarters. This year’s winner will be announced at a gala in Houston on May 2. Previous winners Wendy Wagner, Michael Tole and Francesca Fuchs.
Among the finalists are 20 artists from the Central Texas area:
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Luis Abreu, Austin
Andrew Anderson, Austin
Heyd Fontenot, Austin
Joshua Kight, Austin
Ashe Laughlin, Austin
David Leonard, Austin
Suzanne Lewis, Austin
Katie Maratta, Austin
Erick Michaud, Austin
Skip Noah, Austin
David Ohlerking, Austin
Anna Marie Pavlik, Austin
Ellen Tanner, Austin
Krutie Thakkar, Austin
Leanne Venier, Austin
Matthew Winters, Austin
Carol Grigsby, Bastrop
Kathleen Holder, Buda
Randolph Nesbitt, Round Rock
Yuko Fukuzumi, San Marcos
Keith Sanders, Wimberley
