2009 Utah Arts Festival Awards
The Utah Arts Festival is happy to announce its awards for "Best in Show." These artists will be invited back to the 2010 Utah Arts Festival.
- Dwight and Regina Masak, Ceramics, Pocatello, Idaho
- Cat Palmer, 2-D Mixed Media, Washington Terrace, Utah
- Julie Stutznegger, Glass, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Richard Turner/Eric Carrroll, Sculpture, Newton, Kansas
Also, the awards committee selected four other artists for Awards of Merit.
- Fred Conlon, Metalwork, Salt Lake City, Utah
- Marilyn and Chris Sunderland, 3-D Mixed Media, Riverton, Utah
- Lisa Telling-Kattenbraker, Fiber, Olympia, Washington
- King Wu, Photography, Bothell, Washington
Artist's Choice Award went to Shawn Harris, Digital.
These artists will also be invited back to next year's festival.
Literary Arts Awards
Ultra IronPen:
- ADULT - Logan Campbell: “Tlaloc’s Sink of Souls” (fiction); “Wimpy Waterballooner” (nonfiction); “Learning to Sleep” (poetry).
- YOUTH - Dixon Li: “Alice, Because of a Leaky Faucet” (fiction); “Sticky Water” (nonfiction); “Ode to Wasatch IronPen” (poetry).
- HONORABLE MENTION (ADULT) - Joel Ramey: “Fed Up” (fiction); “A Leak in Time or How We Came to the Decision to Remodel Our Kitchen” (nonfiction); “Melodious Percussive Obsession” (poetry).
Wasatch IronPen:
- FICTION: Youth - Veronika Belova, “A Safe Haven” Adult - Richard G. Scharine, “Last Job” Honorable Mention (adult) - Marie Mischel, “How to Fix a Leaky Faucet”
- NONFICTION: Adult - Tifanie D. Spencer, “A New Sense of Reason” Honorable Mention (adult) - Cecily Light, “Water Water Everywhere”
- POETRY: Adult - José Luis Otero, “Taste the Water”
Fear No Film
- Grand Jury Prize - Voor Een Dubbeltje (A Penny For …), Eric Wobma (Netherlands)
- Honorable Mentions - c/o Flap Jackson, John Lustig (New York) The Young and Evil, Julian Breece (California) with delicate risk, Dane Webster (Virginia)
- Utah Short Film of The Year - Kites, Jed Henry (Utah)
Category Winners (Audience Choice):
- WHO? - Roads, Lior Geller (Israel)
- WHAT? - Never, Devon Ford (Illinois)
- WHERE? - The Divorce Case, Leon Hooke (Australia)
- WHEN? - Mother, Mine, Susan Everett (United Kingdom)
- WHY? - Fowl Play, Adam Durand (Rochester, New York)
- HOW? - The Spam Job, Padraic Culham (California)
16th Annual Sports Medicine Center 1K/5K
Kids Art Attack 1K
- BOYS - Dillon Clark (05.43.96)
- GIRLS - Hailee Hansen (06.56.86)
Art Attack 5K
- MEN - Albert Wint (16:38.69)
- WOMEN - Melissa Hayman (21:02.93)
