Mentor Artist Wins Mixed Media Competition, On Display At Lakeland

Mentor artist Harry Pierson won first place in the mixed media category during the Euclid Art Association exhibition at Lakeland Community College.

Pierson's Blue Bayou topped every other artist in the category and his Poppies also garnered an honorable mention.

Pierson's work and 96 other pieces of art will be on display through Sept. 2 on the college’s main campus, 7700 Clocktower Drive, Building D, first floor. The gallery is free and open to the public.

The gallery is open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on weekends.

The full list of 2011 award winners include: 

Best in Show

Eddie Mitchell: Enraptured by Nature’s Love, Oil on Canvas 

Watercolor 
First Place: Stan Klak: Return of the Salmon 
Second Place: Susan Herrle: Bass Harbor Head Light 
Third Place: Susan Lokar: Water Series # 3 
Honorable Mention: John Davis: Glendalough 
Honorable Mention: Joanne Naroski: Butterfly Garden 
Honorable Mention: Suzuko Bacnik: Spring Brush 

Oil and Acrylic Painting 
First Place: Eddie Mitchell: Enraptured by Natures Love 
Second Place: Michelle Brown: Shades of Light 
Honorable Mention: James Tomko: Moonrise 
Honorable Mention: Susan Lokar: Water Series # 4 
Honorable Mention: Eddie Mitchell: Colorful Coruscations 

Graphic Art and Pastel 
First Place: Kathleen E. Yates: The Emperor's Formal Clothing 
Second Place: Paulette George Krieger: Approaching Storm 
Third Place: Michelle Brown: Reflections of a Treasured Memory 
Honorable Mention: Michael Wardrope: Sunlit Goose 
Honorable Mention: Linda Leonardi Mcgreevy: Searching and Soaring 
Honorable Mention: Lisa Urankar: Sunrise Awakening 

Mixed Media 
First Place: Harry Pierson: Blue Bayou 
Second Place: Martha Germano: Off the Rack 
Third Place: Pat Snook: Cracked 
Honorable Mention: Patricia Simmons: Soft Landing 
Honorable Mention: Paulette George Krieger: Chinese Rose Vase 
Honorable Mention: Harry Pierson: Poppies 

Photography/ Computer Graphics 
First Place: Bill Pappas: The Patriarch 
Second Place: Lee Peters: Over-Under-Sideways-Down 
Third Place: Joseph Zupko: Tall Ships — The Flags 
Honorable Mention: Dennis Reitenbach: Monument Detail 
Honorable Mention: Paul D. Yates: Two by Two 
Honorable Mention: Dennis McDonnell: Mermaids 

Sculpture 
First Place: Marco Vaccher: “10” on a Chopper 
Second Place: Jennifer Morton: Untitled II 
Third Place: Linda Leonardi Mcgreevy: Ins and Outs of Life