Artvi Advocates has extended the viewing dated for the 2011 Caribbean Colour Juried Art Exhibition, “The Art of Diversity: A Smile is Beautiful in Every Colour.” The exhibit, which is located at the Ice Gallery Project at St. Thomas Dairies, across from Udder Delite on Magens Bay Road, St. Thomas, will be open from 1-5 p.m. on Saturday, March 12, and Saturday, March 19, and from 6-9 p.m. on Thursday, March 17, for the artists closing party.
Featured in the exhibition are more than 40 works of art from local emerging and mid-career artists, as well as over 30 works of art by students from the Charlotte Amalie High School art department, The Virgin Islands School of Visual Arts and Antilles School, among others.
Over $2,000 in cash prizes were awarded to the following exhibition winners:
Students Best in Show: Charlotte Amalie AP High School student Ladee Martin – “Self Portrait”
Student 2-Dimentional Work
1st Prize: School of Visual Arts and Careers student Jose Hernandez – “Mr. Pleasant”
2nd Prize: School of Visual Arts and Careers student Marlyka Williams – Lolette, “A Tribute to Jesse R. Fauset”
3rd Prize: Charlotte Amalie High School student Adrian Rodriguez – “Still Life”
Honorable Mention: School of Visual Arts and Careers student Jade Barber – “Tea Time”
Student 3-Dimentional Work
1st Prize: 7-7 and Shalem Art Space Collaborative Piece – “Thinking About Music”
2nd Prize: Eudora Kean High School student Deshaun Guzman – “Winged Man”
3rd Prize: Eudora Kean High School student Natalie Dalmida – “Blue Mask with Feathers”
ADULTS:
Peoples Choice Award: Beth Downey, “Biodiversity Magens Bay”
Best in Show: W. B. Thompson – “Garden of Love”
2-D Work
1st Prize: Gina Feddersen – “Dominoes at the Dairies”
2nd Prize: Doreen Walsh – “Park Chat I”
3rd Prize: Beth Downey – “Biodiversity Magens Bay”
Honorable Mention: Eunice Summer – “Jumping the Broom”
Honorable Mention: Madeleine Meehan – “La Bamba!”
3-D Work
1st Prize: Tony Romano – “The Merge”
2nd Prize: Larry Lipsky – “Negotiations”
3rd Prize: Lynn Berry – “Pure Spirits”
Honorable Mention – Kimberly Young – “Leopard Bowl”
Serving as juror was Carmen T. Ruiz De Fischler Ph.D., founding director of the Puerto Rico Museum of Art and a former executive director of the renowned Ponce Art Museum.
Artvi Advocates is a new grassroots organization of energetic and innovative art advocates who have a keen interest in furthering the cause of arts and cultural advocacy in the USVI. Its mission is to support and promote the arts in order to enhance the cultural, social and economic well-being of the Virgin Islands through arts education and advocacy.
Art work will only also be available for viewing by appointment from March 8 through 18. For more information or to make an appointment, call 690-9528.