Awards

The BSAF Awards Committee selects three artists annually to honor. Two receive an Award of Excellence and one the Media Award. At the start of each year’s festival, the committee gathers together to canvas the festival vendors to select these recipients.

The Awards Committee bestows two Award of Excellence ribbons to two artisans who show outstanding skill in his or her chosen media. These awards are based on overall quality of the artist’s work, and not on a particular piece. Criteria to judge work is based on originality, craftsmanship and skillful use of materials. The winners must create all of their work.

The third award and ribbon is the Media Award. The Awards Committee chooses one piece of work from an artist the group feels best represents the spirit of the festival. The committee searches for a piece that is an original or “one-of-a-kind”.

The selected artist will be asked for permission to use the artwork to create the next year’s BSAF logo. The Awards, Publicity, and Tee Shirt Committees create a flat art logo to be used on promotional materials such as tee-shirts, flags and banners. The artwork will also be on posters, programs, and newspaper and TV advertising distributed in a four state area. If the committee choose to purchase the artwork, it will possibly be donated to a Brookings community charitable art auction after its use.

2010 Award Winners

Media Award 2010 - Carol Lundeen, Lundeen Artwork
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Carol Lundeen grew up in Paynesville, MN.  After high school, she went on to get her B.A. in Art at Northwest Nazarene College in Nampa, ID.  Carol and her family now reside in Dassel, MN.  The birth of their daughter, Sara, was the spark that put Carol back on her art journey as she began producing pen and ink stipple drawings of babies, which she sold nationally.  After 9 years, the strain of drawing dots forced Carol to move onto a different medium.  Carol decided to turn her abilities to landscape painting.

Carol has been entering more shows and competitions nationally......earning herself some awards along the way.  She hopes to continue on in this style for many years to come.

Award of Excellence 2010 - Rick Holland, Art by Holland
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Rick Holland made his debut at the BSAF in 2010 to great success.  From Lake Preston, South Dakota Rick works with metal to create wildlife and nature sculptures.