Local artist awarded in Arkansas Art Center’s Delta Exhibition

LITTLE ROCK — The Arkansas Arts Center recently announced the award-winning works of the 59th Annual Delta Exhibition, on display June 9 through Aug. 27 in the Jeannette Edris Rockefeller and Townsend Wolfe Galleries.

Local artist Daniel Cassity was awarded an Honorable Mention for his work, “The Wonderweapon.”

Through a blind jury process, guest juror Betsy Bradley selected 73 works by 57 artists to be featured out of 1,120 entries from 497 artists. From the selected works, Bradley named a Grand Award winner, two Delta Award winners and five Honorable Mentions. A Contemporaries Award winner was selected by the Contemporaries, an auxiliary membership group of the Arkansas Arts Center.

Bradley is the director of the Mississippi Museum of Art, where she oversees the Jackson museum and its statewide affiliates. She announced the winners during a lecture, reception and exhibition preview for Delta artists and Arts Center members on June 8.

$2,500 Grand Award

• Dawn Holder, of Clarksville, for her work titled “Grass Variation (Mown Path).”

$750 Delta Awards

• Paula Kovarik, of Memphis, Tenn., for her work titled “Chaos Ensues.”

• Carlyle Wolfe, of Oxford, Miss., for her work titled “Fall.”

Honorable Mentions

• Tommy Wallace, of Conway, for his work titled “Leslie Cafe.”

• Frank Hamrick, of Ruston, La., for his work titled “Harder than writing a good haiku.”

• Jason McCann, of Little Rock, for his work titled “The American Student: Marshayla and the Drawing Class.”

• Tim Tyler, of Bella Vista, for his work titled “Trike.”

• Daniel Cassity, of Hot Springs, for his work titled “The Wonderweapon.”

$250 Contemporaries Award

• LaDawna Whiteside, of Fayetteville, for her work titled “Body: Flesh and Bone.”

“Every year, the Delta Exhibition gives Arkansas Arts Center patrons the opportunity to experience some of the Delta region’s most talented contemporary artists,” said Todd Herman, executive director of the Arkansas Arts Center.

The 59th Annual Delta Exhibition is sponsored by Isabel and John Ed Anthony, Lisenne Rockefeller, Ginanne Graves Long, Dianne and Bobby Tucker, AAC Contemporaries and Edafio Technology Partners. The Grand Award is supported by The John William Linn Endowment Fund. The exhibition is supported by the Andre Simon Memorial Trust in memory of everyone who has died of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS).