It was a celebration of art and artists at the Wellington County Museum’s Insights exhibit opening on June 20.
The event attracts both established and emerging artists from a wide area and is regarded as one of the longest running juried art exhibitions in Ontario.
Organized and sponsored by the Elora Arts Council, the show had more than 60 winning entries this year, including:
– Insights Award, to Sophie Hogan of Elora for her photograph Night Wait (given in honour of late Elora artist Marilyn Koop, through the generosity of Hal Gober and Laurette Larocque)
– Ellen Langlands Memorial award, to Judith Elsasser of Cambridge for her painting Mom;
– Elora Arts Council Award, to Peter A. Grimaldi of Eden Mills for his photograph Ora di Pranzo;
– sculpture award, to Tanya Zaryski of Kimberley for her sculpture Time Present and Time Past (donated by Beryl Dawson on behalf of the Wellington Artists’ Gallery);
– Painting award, to Julia Vandepolder of Hillsburgh for her piece Crawl Space, (donated by Wyndam Art Supplies);
– fibre award, to Helen Hughes of Guelph for her work The Ongoing Moment, (donated by Judy McMullan and Randall Howard);
– photography award, to Daniel Masci of Guelph for his photograph Long Road;
– ceramics award, to Elsa Mann of Mount Forest, for her piece Twilight Vase (donated by Wyndham Art Supplies and Roxanne’s Reflections); and
– works on paper award, to Richard Pilon of Eden Mills for his work Cueillanse (32) (donated by Wyndham Arts Supplies).
The Insights art exhibition runs until Sept. 2 at the Wellington County Museum and Archives, located in Aboyne on Wellington Road 18 between Fergus and Elora.
The galleries are open weekdays from 9:30am to 4:30pm and on weekends and holidays from 12 to 4pm.
