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2010 Award Winners


The 2010
Art Fair Off the Square Artists' Awards Judge


Art Fair Off the Square Artists’ Awards Judge Terrence Coffman is an accomplished artist, author, musician/songwriter, and an internationally recognized leader in art education. He studied at the Corcoran College of Art and Design, the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and has been the recipient of two Ford Foundation grants. He has received citations from U.S. Senator Herbert Kohl and Former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson for his dedication to the visual arts and education in Wisconsin. In 1995, President Clinton invited Coffman to the White House to attend the prestigious National Medal of Arts awards ceremony.
That same year, he was awarded a fellowship at the Lacoste School of Art in France where he taught and conducted research for his novel on Vincent van Gogh, “A Walk Through the Wheatfields.”
Coffman’s work has received several awards and has been exhibited in numerous exhibitions, including shows at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., the Baltimore Museum of Art, the Lee Nordness Gallery in New York, the Milwaukee Art Museum and the Tory Folliard Gallery located in the Historic Third Ward of Milwaukee. He was also a professor as well as President of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design from1983–2007.

 

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2002 Award Winners

Truman Lowe was the Awards Judge at this year's fair. Mr. Lowe is a Professor of Sculpture at the University of Wisconsin. Currently on leave from the Department of Art, he is with the Smithsonian Institution as Curator of Contemporary Art for the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C. Not only did he jury the fair but presented the awards at the artists' picnic on Saturday evening. Thanks, Truman!


Ceramics


Christopher Tennis

Pine River, Wisconsin

Fiber


Jerilyn Dinsmoor
Onalaska, Wisconsin 

Glass


Scott Simmons
Belleville, Wisconsin 

Graphics


Julie Sutter-Blair
Belleville, Wisconsin

 Jewelry


Jim McConnell
(with wife, Mary)
Verona, Wisconsin

2-D Mixed Media



Lynn Casper
Waukesha, Wisconsin

3-D Mixed Media


Paul Klein
Amherst Junction, Wisconsin

Painting


Leonard Nagler
Appleton, Wisconsin
Photography


Tom Lazar
Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Sculpture


Charlotte Darling-Diehl
Appleton, Wisconsin

Wood


Bill Bale
Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin 

 

In addition to these Awards, the Art Fair OFF the Square gives two awards to Newbies, artists who are exhibiting in our fair for the first time. They can be seen below. Congratulations!

 Newbie (Fiber)


Norma DeHaven
Fitchburg, Wisconsin
Newbie (2-D Mixed Media)


Lee Hill
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin

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