Yosemite Renaissance 34 (2019)
Yosemite Renaissance 34 is traveling. The show has closed at Carnegie Arts Center in Turlock, and is now showing at Gallery 5 in Oakhurst, through November 17th. There will be a gala “Closing Reception” on Saturday October 19th from 5 to 8 pm with Live music by Good Medicine.
This year, 62 works by 60 artists were chosen from 640 entries. The exhibit includes paintings, prints, textiles, mixed media, photographs and 3-dimensional works by artists from across the country, selected to inspire a new generation of people to understand, preserve and protect our wild lands and natural places.
YOSEMITE RENAISSANCE 34 SPECIAL THANKS
Yosemite Museum Staff
Interim Chief Curator - Greg Cox
Registrar - Sara Hay
Interp - Ben Cunningham Summerfield
Interns - Brittany Puhrmann, Heather Vandergrinton
Yosemite Museum Gallery Volunteers
Tom Byde
YOSEMITE RENAISSANCE 34 JUDGES
Penny Otwell, Joan Sharma
YOSEMITE RENAISSANCE 34 AWARD WINNERS
Best of Show - $1000 award
Wendy Tan – “Affection”
First Place – three $500 awards
1) Lyrinda Snyderman – “Inexorable Descent”
2) Trowzers Akimbo – “The Otters Are Back”
3) Bryant Austin – “I’m Here”
Second Place – three $300 awards
1) Kirk Keeler – “Ice Pattern on High Sierra Pond, Eastern Sierra”
2) Esther Eve Jacks-Grayson – “Together”
3) Deborah Pepin – “Fall Splendor Lundy Canyon Eastern Sierras”
Honorable Mention –five $100 awards
1) Monique Wales – “Grand Show, Sierra Gloaming”
2) Franka Gabler – “Fishing, Eastern Sierra”
3) Marek Matusz – “Moon and Clouds”
4) John Kifer – “Fire on the Merced”
5) Pamela Hicks – “The Awe of El Cap”
Weiss / Vocelka Award - (two $500 awards)
Donors- Derrick Vocelka and daughter Sarah Vocelka Hendrickson
In honor of mother and daughter B. Weiss and Mary Weiss-Vocelka
1) Denise Oyama Miller – “Bird’s Eye View”
2) David Hoffman – “Brown Creepers No. 2”
People’s Choice Award - $100 award
1) Marilyn Wear - “Heading Downstream”
Email us at info@yosemiterenaissance.org or call 559-683-5551 if you have questions.
