Congratulations to all the winners of this year's Member Show.  The show will run from May 20 until June 26 at the Aiken Center for the Arts in Aiken, SC.

This year's show was judged by Alan MacTaggart, Chair, Department of Art, and Professor of Art, Augusta State University.  "It was a joy to see the wide range of extraordinary talent at work in Aiken.  All media showed strongly and this is a show to be justifiably proud of.  The sheer numbers of work submitted made me choose to eliminate 30 works only because of space and the finalists will reinforce the whole of the selected best.  Obviously there are wonderful masters of many crafts in Aiken.  This one of the best of a membership regional show I have had the privilege to judge.  Thank you.....enjoy."        Alan MacTaggart

BEST IN SHOW: Ninety Years Young by Jean Blackmer

TWO-DIMENSIONAL 1ST PLACE: Relaxation by Jane Popiel

TWO-DIMENSIONAL 2nd PLACE: Number Crunch by Barbara Yon

TWO-DIMENSIONAL 3rd PLACE: Reclamation by Bea Kuhlke

THREE DIMENSIONAL-FIRST PLACE: Lizard Dreaming by Tom Supensky

THREE DIMENSIONAL-SECOND PLACE: "Mother Lode" Vase by Frank Lustig

THREE DIMENSIONAL-THIRD PLACE: Mistaken Identity by Myrna Spurrier

PHOTOGRAPHY-FIRST PLACE: Windsor Forest by Meghan Benge

PHOTOGRAPHY-SECOND PLACE: Plein Air Artist by George Edward Buggs

PHOTOGRAPHY-THIRD PLACE: Fallen by Curly Douglas

BEST AIKEN SCENE-FIRST PLACE: Aiken Downtown by Carolyn Bohn

BEST AIKEN SCENE-SECOND PLACE: Aiken Downtown Jazz by Ann LeMay

HONORABLE MENTIONS:

Spring at Hopeland Gate by Cynthia Cox

Waiting to LIve by Deborah Tidwell Holtzscheider

Off to Work by Suzanne Hulligan

The Middle Thunder by Emily Short