Eugene Mayor's Art Show Winners Announced!

Lots of pats on the backs and awards were given out at today’s opening of the 2008 Mayor’s Art Show at the Jacobs Gallery. The Eugene art scene’s luminaries came out, bedecked in their finest. (Meaning: Paint stains weren’t to be found.) Given her small list of duties, we were wondering why the 2008 S.L.U.G. Queen, Marie Slugtoinette, failed to show for her ribbon-cutting duties with Mayor Kitty Piercy. Luckily a former queen happened to be in the audience and stepped forward so the tradition can live on.

And the winners are …

• Best of Show:
Strength, sculpture by Charly Pritchard Swing

• Mayor’s Choice Award:
Doors, photograph by Hugh Stump

• Director’s Choice Award:
Memory Variations X — Light in Winter Woods, hand-colored photograph by Jo Warren

• Designer’s Choice Award:
Darkness Was Upon the Face of the Deep, mixed media by Marilyn Odland

• Jurors’ Choice Awards:
Harvest, photograph by Jim Earl

Seahorse Taverna, Molyvos, watercolor by Geoffrey McCormack

Bremen Town Musicians, terra cotta sculpture by Linda Dyer

• Honorable Mention:
Love life — Live Love, photograph by Robin Bachtler Cushmann

• Chuck’s EW! A Blog. Choice Award:
The Living Word of God, mixed media by Kenneth Paul Tripp

(The Viewer's Choice Award will be awarded on the First Friday ARTWalk on Oct. 3. So get on down to the Jacobs Gallery and vote! Also, get to the Salon des Refuses at New Zone and vote there, too! And, uh, while you're at it, remember to VOTE HERE TOO, because polls close next Wednesday!)