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Press Release2007 Visual Art Competition Winners
NEWS NAPA VALLEY MUSTARD FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES WINNERS OF ANNUAL VISUAL ART COMPETITION The Napa Valley Mustard Festival, non-profit sponsor of the Napa Valley Mustard Festival's 14th Annual Visual Art Competition, announces this year's prize winners. The competition was open to all California artists, and the jurors have made their decisions. Prizes of $1,000 for First Place, $500 for Second Place, and $250 for Third Place, were awarded in two categories - Two Dimensional Work and Three Dimensional Work. Two Dimensional Work
Three Dimensional Work
Jurors
Philip Linhares is the Chief Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California. His background is extensive and varied, coupled with an education that brings an acute and ardent eye to the art world. Linhares received a BFA and a MFA from the California College of Arts and Crafts and studied Museum Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Linhares has been the Curatorial Assistant at the Oakland Museum History Department, Director of Exhibitions at the San Francisco Art Institute, and Director of the Mills College Art Gallery.
Donna Seager has been working in the art business since 1978. Seager has worked and directed galleries in New Orleans, Boston, San Francisco and Marin County, where she spent 10 years with Robert Green Fine Arts. Throughout her career, Seager has written articles about artists and exhibitions for various publications and is a member of the San Anselmo Arts Commission. In November 2005, she opened her own gallery where she has distinguished herself in part in her belief in artist books, as well as her keen eye and energetic support for the art and artists of the Bay Area.
Jeffery Beauchamp grew up in suburban New Jersey which uniquely equipped him to appreciate the glory of the western landscape. Turning from film and animation to fine arts and oils, Beauchamp enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where he received his Painting BFA. Beauchamp has been painting and showing ever since, first with the Susan Cummins Gallery in Mill Valley and currently with the Dolby Chadwick Gallery in San Francisco. Beauchamp lives and works in Fairfax, CA and teaches private classes in plein air and oil painting techniques.
Napa Valley Mustard Festival The Mustard Season offers a full palette of food, wine, art, entertainment, and cultural activities staged throughout the world-famous grape growing region from approximately the end of January through the month of March each Winter/Spring. Mustard the condiment shares center stage with mustard in bloom throughout the season - appearing at events and in mustard recipes, from entrées to desserts. The Festival sponsors a Visual Art Competition, World Wide Mustard Competition, Chefs' Mustard Recipe Competition, and Photography Contest each year. For additional information please visit mustardfestival.org, or call the event producer, Summers-McCann, Inc. Public Relations, at 707.938.1133. ### prepared by Summers-McCann, Inc. Public Relations P.O. Box 3603 Yountville, CA 94599 707.944.1133 info@mustardfestival.org See Also:
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