Artist Awards

Awards are selected by a professional artist and presented in the following amounts:

Best of show $1000, Second Place $750, and third place $500

(2025 winners)

Artist Professional

Best of Show $1000 – Logan Hudson, Our Town

Second Award $750 – James Foos, Fire Lights

Third Award $500 – Lauren Kingsley, Closing time

Honorable Mention #1 – Mary Hertler Tallman, Main Street Magic
Honorable Mention #2  – Dani Fuller, Alley Oasis

Emerging Artist

Emerging Adult Artist First $200 – Jeff Bair, Lights on Main

Emerging Adult Artist Second $150 – Rex Russell, Window on the World

Emerging Adult Artist Third $100 – Kerry King, AirB&B

Honorable Mention #1 – Wendy Fetter, Going going gone
Honorable Mention #2 – Sabreen Handah, Green Corner

Youth 12+

Youth Artist First Award  Claire Rozek – Date Night

Youth Artist Second Award Genevieve Foos – Olander

Youth Artist Third Award Finn Gonce – The Pond

Honorable Mention #1 – Anthony Spinazze – Lone Tree
Honorable Mention #2 Genevieve Foos – Plumber Park

Youth Artist 11 and under

Youth Artist First Award  Charlie Gonce- Maple

Youth Artist Second Award Harper Dice -Sweet Shop 

Purchase Prize Awards

A purchase prize is a cash award and purchase of artwork by a Home or Business who would like their building painted by artists in Sylvania Plein Air. The property owner offers an amount of their choice as a cash prize in exchange for a painting and selects the painting they’d like to keep in exchange for the cash prize.

Main Street | $1000

Logan Hudson

Inside the Five| $500

Logan Hudson

Main Street Cottage| $1000

Larry Golba

Main Street Cottage| $1000

Richard Maxfield

Memorial Grove | $1000

Michael Dority

Olander | $500 (2)

Pat Cheal , Janel Kohler

The Spanish House | $1000

Dani Fuller

Yark Automotive | $600

Mary Hertler Tallman

Patriotic| $776

Fran Mangino 

Red Feather| $250

Rex Russell

Athena Art Society| $250

James Foos

Athena Art Society Award 

The Athena Art Society is an organization of women artists founded in 1903 to promote and develop visual art and stimulate community participation in art in the region.

The Athena Plein Air Award is given to an artwork that demonstrates individuality, innovation in the medium and creative excellence. Preference given to an artwork that has not received other awards and is open to artworks of any media.

Contact

Dani Fuller
Red Bird Sylvania, Creative Art Director
773. 988.0320
Redbirdartsdistrict@gmail.com