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.

2011 Award Winners

Media Award Winner - Belinda Riley
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My sculptures are made from high-fired stoneware clay, and are hollow inside. I begin with the feet and work my way up.  I hope the joy I experience in creating each new piece is shared by the new owner. 

People sometimes ask me where I get my inspiration. I had early exposure to animals since I was raised on a farm, and animals were part of our lives, although we did not have house pets. After I got married, we began having cats as pets. They were a never-ending source of amusement and inspiration! I did not realize that each cat has its own personality until we started having them for pets. My husband grew up in Africa, and we visited there several years ago, and I fell in love with giraffes, elephants and also lions. I guess I’m just a hopeless animal lover at heart. I watch Animal Planet while I’m working in the studio and sometimes wish I could have a job working in an animal park.

Award of Exellence - Lloyd & Linda Wiese, Wood’N-U
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Award of Excellence - Holly Zinn
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