State Fair Awards
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To encourage other artists outside Collage membership, we sponsor monetary awards to artists in the annual Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Exhibition. We currently sponsor the following awards:
- Collage of Women Artists Award
- Connie Layne Memorial Awards (former member) – two awards
- Hazen-Taft Award (by members Judy Hazen & Rebecca Taft)
2024 Connie Layne Memorial Award #2: “Too Many Brad Pitt Movies” by Jennifer Sowders
2024 Connie Layne Memorial Award #1: “Message in a Bottle” by Tara Nicodemus
2024 Collage of Women Artists Award: “Self Portrait at 33 Years Old” by Antonio Gonzalez-Garcia
2024 Hazen-Taft Award: “Pieces of April” by David Groff
2023 Collage of Women Artists Award: 929 by Heather Pedersen
2023 Connie Layne Memorial Award: The Lesson by Gregory Degroat, watercolor, 12”x9”, professional, $1,500.00 (Bev Goldie, judge)
2023 Hazen-Taft Award: Got Soap? by Audrey Moody, oil, 14”x11”, professional, $450 (Judy Hazen & Becky Taft, judges)
2022 Collage of Women Artists Award: 5-Portals_Augmented-Realities by C G Ryan
2022 Connie Layne Memorial Award: "Goats Should Not Chew Tobacco" by Ann Rebele
2022 Hazen-Taft Award: Triptych of Cattails in Winter by Edward Steffanni
2019 Collage of Women Artists Award: Tangled by Alexis Poulton
2019 Connie Layne Memorial Award: "Three's Company" by Pat Howard