Artists Win at 35th Annual Arts Festival at Rose Lawn

      Media release: Seven artists were chosen as winners from a field of 100 vendors at the 35^th Annual Arts Festival at Rose Lawn on Saturday, September 18, in Cartersville.  A total purse of $1,000 was awarded.

Serving as judges for the festival were Shana Barefoot and Sherry Warren.  Shana Barefoot is an artist and administrator, currently serving as the Collections and Exhibitions Coordinator for the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia in Atlanta.  Barefoot has just completed her thesis for her Masters in Art Administration from Savannah College of Art & Design and was just recently part of a group exhibition titled "Beneath the Surface."  In addition to her most recent degree, Barefoot holds a Bachelors of Arts in Geography/Art History minor and graduated from Alexander W. Dreyfoos School of the Arts with a visual arts concentration.  She is most proud of her accomplishments with Unveiled Art Outreach, which she organized in Centennial Olympic Park, Atlanta in 2008.  The artist's paintings have been chosen for many public and private collections.

Sherry Warren is employed by the Bartow County School System as an Art Teacher at Adairsville Elementary.  Warren received her Bachelor of Visual Arts from Georgia State University with a minor in Art History in 1985.  Upon realizing that her heart yearned to teach, she returned to college five years later at Kennesaw University to earn a teaching certificate.  She taught upper elementary grades for 15 years before becoming GACE certified to teach art in grades K-12.  In addition, Warren holds a Masters Degree in middle grades mathematics.  In 2006, she was honored with a large grant to attend an Earthwatch expedition.  As part of the team based in New Mexico, Warren was responsible for recovering artifacts and pottery samples from ancient Puebloan tribes.  She has applied her vast knowledge from this expedition in her art classes for the past four years and enjoys attending teacher institutes at the High Museum of Art, as well as classes integrating the arts through the Booth Western Art Museum.

The following artists received honors on Saturday:

Best of Show – Kalan Redmon, Limon Verde Jewelry of Marietta

1^st Place – Fine Arts – Rebecca Frazee, of Resaca - paintings

1^st Place – Heritage Crafts – Faye & Bill Wallis, of Carrollton - turned wood bowls

2^nd Place – Fine Arts – Debbie Hagstrom, of Ocala FL - fused glass

2^nd Place – Heritage Crafts – Eric Strange, of Tucker - pottery

3^rd Place – Fine Arts – Sharon Bentkowski, of Roswell - fiber jewelry creations

3^rd Place – Heritage Crafts – Eddie Smith, of Waleska - pottery

            The festival returns to Cartersville for the 36^th year on September 17-18, 2011.  Make plans to attend the free festival hosted annually by Bartow County Government at 224 West Cherokee Avenue in Cartersville.

 

About the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau

The Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau (CVB) is the Destination Marketing Organization serving Cartersville, Adairsville and all of Bartow County, Georgia.  Founded in 1991, the CVB's mission is to foster and sustain the economic development of Bartow County, Georgia and its municipalities through generating the influx of tourism revenue.  The CVB operates the Official Georgia Local Welcome Center and the Clarence Brown Conference Center located at 5450 State Route 20 in Cartersville at I-75 Exit 290 west.  Visitor assistance is available Monday-Friday 8:30 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 11 a.m.-4 p.m. 

The destination features many attractions of interest including Allatoona Lake, Red Top Mountain State Park, Tellus Science Museum, Booth Western Art Museum, Etowah Indian Mounds State Historic Site, Barnsley Gardens Resort and much more located 45 miles north of Atlanta and 85 miles south of Chattanooga on Interstate 75, Exits 278-306.

For information on Cartersville, Adairsville and all of Bartow County, Georgia contact the Cartersville-Bartow County Convention & Visitors Bureau at 770-387-1357 inside Metro Atlanta or 800-733-2280. Or visit online at www.notatlanta.org.

 

 

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