Merit Awards

Best of Show – Fred Doloresco of Fort Wayne for Many Hands

Best Traditional Oil – Susie Rachles of Zionsville for Blessing of the Hounds

Best Traditional Landscape – Beth Forst of Noblesville for Cornrows Below Zero

Best Pastel – Carol Strock-Wasson of Union City for The Ethanol Plant

Best Seascape – Traditional Oil, Katherine McLeod Smith Memorial Award –
Denise Pettee-Frazier of Carmel for Bahama Breezes           

Best Watercolor -- Pat Hooper of Urbana for Garden Walk

Best Work – Any Medium – Joel Fremion of Ossian for Chicago, N. Michigan Avenue           
Best Sculpture – Scott Westphal of Indianapolis for Uni           

Best First Time Exhibitor – Karol Kintz of Granger for At the Window

Best Impressionistic Landscape – Lynn Dunbar of Louisville for Little Pink Houses

Outstanding Still Life – Nora Kasten of Naples, Florida, for Clementine

Outstanding Watercolor – Rena Brouwer of Delphi for Emergence

Outstanding Realism – Oil – Jerry Smith of Crawfordsville for Bass Harbor Morning

Outstanding Work in Any Medium, Traditional – David Tutwiler of Beverly Shores for Lifting Skies

Outstanding Oil – Traditional – Forrest Formsma of Indianapolis for Autumn Road

Jury Prize of Distinction – April Knox of Spencerville for Beekeeper

Jury Prize of Distinction – Watercolor – Rob O’Dell of Ladoga for Light in the West

Distinguished Work, Contemporary – Carol Morotti of Indianapolis for Plan for a Sunny Day

Jury Prize of Distinction – Portrait – E.G. Whipple of Avon for Seventeen

Work That Best Depicts the Love of the Land – Karen Sonner of Marion for The Crane

Jury Prize of Distinction – Contemporary – Teri Barnett of Indianapolis for Up North

Jury Prize of Distinction – Drawing – Judy Crawford of  DeMotte for Getting By

Jury Prize of Distinction – Traditional – April Knox of Spencerville for SpencervilleBridge

Jury Prize of Distinction, Traditional – John Michael Carter of Louisville for Breakfast Tea

Jury Prize of Distinction – Waterscape – Gwen Gutwein of Fort Wayne for Weeks Fishing Camp

Popular Choice Award From the 84th Annual Exhibition -- Fred Holly of Highland for “The Hitchhikers”