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Sunday, June 15, 2025

Post 582: People's Choice Winner of Best of the Region 2025

People's Choice Winner of Best of the Region 2025

Sunday, June 15, 2025. Today is the final day of the Prince William Art Society sponsored and hosted Best of the Region Fine Art Show and Sale at the Manassas Art Factory. The show ran from June 3 to June 15 and featured 40 artists from all over the Northern Virginia area. The final award of the show is in - the vote of People's Choice.

Best of the Region Winners

Best of the Region Online Web Gallery

1st Place Mike Flynn of Gainesville, VA with his watercolor painting "Bull Run"

2nd Place Absku AKA Kwaku Oforit-Yirenkyi of Dumfries, VA with his mixed media (acrylic, fabric and oil) painting "Eternal Reflections"

3rd Place Corban Hubler of Centerville, VA, with his oil painting called "Ambush"

Honorable Mention 1 Michele Frantz, of Manassas, VA, with "Peaches in the Garden" in watercolor

Honorable Mention 2 Jill Brabant, of Manassas, VA, with "Summer Symphony" in oil

And finally, the gallery visitors had the opportunity to vote for their favorite artwork in the gallery during the length of the show. The people chose Emily Thomson's work "Hydra" as their winner. Congratulations Emily! This piece is a stunner!

"Hydra" on the wall

Monday, June 16, 2025. Emily picked up her artwork today so her is the photo of her with her People's Choice Award.

Photo by Donna Liguria

Well folks, we hope you enjoyed Prince William Art Society's Best of the Region Art Show 2025. Look for us soon around Prince William County - hopefully at Arts Alive and the Tall Oaks Fall Art Show.

See all of the pictures from the Best of the Region Art Reception held on June 7, 2025

BoR Art Reception Part 1

BoR Art Reception Part 2

BoR Art Reception Part 3

Would you be interested in doing a Best of the Region Show again? Let us know in the comments below.

Author: Donna Liguria
Artistry Spin Blogmaster and an artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Donna's Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Photography/Video Credits: Otis Stanley

Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 50+-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia. Visit us at any of our local art shows or join us for our monthly meetings - held on the 4th Monday of the month at the Tall Oaks Community Center at 12298 Cotton Mill Dr, Woodbridge, VA at 7:30pm

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

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Sunday, June 1, 2025

Post 575: PWAS Member Art Exhibit People's Choice

PWAS Member Art Exhibit People's Choice

Saturday, May 31, 2025. The Prince William Art Society (PWAS) Member Art Exhibit came down today at the ARTfactory. This member only show was at the gallery in Manassas from May 15 until today. Our next show, the Best of the Region Fine Art Show and Sale is about to begin on June 3 and will run until June 15. We counted the People's Choice votes too.

People's Choice Awards

People's Choice awards are a fun way to see what strikes the gallery visitor's fancy and allows them time to really consider the artwork on display. Especially when there are so many wonderful artworks, in so many styles and subjects and mediums. We had a LOT of votes (that's GREAT!). Sheri Herrick and Evelyn Chatters did the honors of counting out the choices, so let's have a look at what the ARTfactory visitors loved the most - although most all of the artwork did receive some votes.

See the Web Gallery here.

Click on artwork to enlarge.

Third Place People's Choice

Mandy Powell's "Gratitude" 30x24x1.5 Mixed Media - Alcohol Ink, mixed media paper, oils

Second Place People's Choice - a Tie

Betty Sperty's "Beedazzeled" 16x20 which Bettie describes the media as Acrylic and Bling. The photo just doesn't do this artwork justice as it doesn't show the wonderful glimmer and shimmer work that went into it! This was a definite one to see in person.

Donna Liguria's "Spring at Merrimac Farm" (the Bluebells) 20x16x105 Acrylic (Painting SOLD!)

First Place People's Choice

"Stormy Seas" by Donna Liguria 40x16x1.5 in Acrylic

Best of the Region Fine Art Show and Sale

A People's Choice Award will also be given at the Best of the Region Show at the ARTfactory June 3- 15, so be sure to get to the ARTfactory and vote your favorite there too! The Art Reception is Saturday, June 7 from 6-8pm. Awards for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and some Honorable Mentions will also be awarded at the Art Reception.

See the online Web Gallery here for this show.

And a big thank you to PWAS Members Mark Clifton, Evelyn Chatters, Sheri Herrick, and Maria Briganti for helping out with the PWAS Show take down. Your help is appreciated!

Photography/Video Credits: by each artist

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Sunday, September 17, 2023

Post 403: Artists Art Reception Strutting OUR Stuff!

Artists Art Reception Strutting OUR Stuff!

The Strut Your Stuff art show is coming to a close on Sunday, September 17, 2023 at Open Space Arts, but the artists came out for the art reception on Friday, September 15 celebrating the show. A new art show called "Honor Your Heritage" will begin on September 20, 2023. The People's Choice Winners are at the bottom of this post.

An Art Reception in Photos

Photos taken by artist Tom Payne unless otherwise noted.

Penny Shaw and Bettie Sperty - who is wearing her "Bib and Tucker".

The art reception notification asked for the artists to wear their "Bib and Tucker" - which many of the artists had to Google. Of course, the characters that we are, a couple of us actually made "bibs". Evelyn modeled one of the bibs. Photo taken by Donna Liguria. PWAS bib, created by Donna Liguria

Photo taken by Evelyn Chatters.

Penny Shaw modeling the "bib". Photo taken by Evelyn Chatters.

And the Winners of the People's Choice Awards Are

Evelyn Chatters sent me the results for the People's Choice Awards for the Strut Your Stuff art show along with the pictures.

3rd Place Living Water by Kathleen Gates

2nd Place Haze by Pierre Georges

1st Place Feather of Fortune by Fatima Farzana

Let's give a big congrats to the winners!

Author: Donna Liguria
An artist member of PWAS in Woodbridge, VA and Artistry Spin Blog Admin, specializing in acrylic painting. She paints landscapes, seascapes, animals and many subjects. Visit her Website at DonnaLiguriaArt.com, her Donna's Esty site and her Blog at Donna’s Cave Paintings.

Photography/Video Credits:
Tom Payne, Evelyn Chatters, Donna Liguria

Local Art: The Prince William Art Society is a 52-year-old non-profit art group in PWC for the appreciation of fine art throughout the county and Northern Virginia.

Want to join PWAS? Go to https://www.princewilliamartsociety.com/membership

Have an idea for a blog post? Are you a writer and want to help with the blog? Let me know! Thank you for visiting, and remember to Share, Follow, and Comment!

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