Honorable Mention, in alphabetic order.

About the Jurors...

Sarah Beth Baca is an artist with a B.A. in Art and Marketing from Houston Baptist University. She has been painting for 9 years and uses various media including oil, acrylic, watercolor, pastels, and mixed media. Currently, she is developing a series of works portraying pieces of nature with a dreamlike quality. She also has completed many commissioned pieces, three of which are on display at Houston Baptist University. She has given art lessons to high school students and adults, and this is her fourth year as a judge for the painting division of Culture Shapers.

Joseph Culotta has been a local artist and art educator in the Houston Area for over thirty-five years. With degrees in Art and Art Education, he has taught art for the Houston Independent School District, University of Houston, and most recently the Museum of Fine Arts Glassell School. His art work has also been displayed at the Archway Gallery, Pilie' Showroom in the Decorative Center, and currently the Market Gallery in Galveston, Texas. Mr. Culotta has served on the state Art Textbook Committee for the selection of art books for public school adoption. He also served as consultant training teachers in the implementation of the adopted textbooks.

Jeff Farmer is a professional artist specializing in two dimensional, representational oil and acrylic paintings. Intrigued by the contrast between light and dark, Chiaroscuro has become his style of preference. His works cover a broad spectrum of subject matter, ranging from still life, to portraits, to landscapes and wildlife. He's traveled the world extensively in search of such subject matter, visiting such places as the South Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, and the Canadian Rockies. Mr. Farmer's works have been on display at such venues as The Witte Museum, San Antonio, TX; The Carnegie Museum of Natural Science, Pittsburgh, PA; and The Neville Public Museum, Greenbay, WI. His works also hang in private collections across the United States and in Canada, England, and New Zealand.