Dimensions: 16 x 14 x 1
Media: Digital Photography
Artist Statement : A rural village street in the early morning lit with street lamps and a full moon peeking through broken cloud cover. A nocturn composition trying to capture "quietness".

Dimensions: 16 x 12
Media: Digital Photography
Artist Statement : The Chestertown Downrigging Festival always creates some wonderful opportunitites to get some nice photographs of the tall ships and all their rigging. The fireworks celebration made for some nice imagery against the tall ships at the dock and provided a nice reflection on the water.

Dimensions: 12 x 16
Media: Oil on panel
Artist Statement : Iconic Mike's Bait in Vilano Beach, FL after hours.

Dimensions: 10 x 8
Media: Oil

FIrst Place
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Dimensions: 9 x 12 x 1
Media: Hand cut and hand dyed layered paper. Paper entirely cut by hand using an x-acto knife.
Artist Statement : This piece features a fox walking in the woods during the nighttime. He uses the light of the moon and the light from fireflies, his nightlights, to guide his way. Subtle gold details catch the light at different times of the day giving the work a different feel from morning to night. In the fading evening light, glowing fireflies emerge giving new life to the scene. Hand cut hand dyed paper birch trees add to the mood of the piece, showing the shadows of the nighttime forest emerging.

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Dimensions: 14 x 40
Media: Digital photo on metal
Artist Statement : At Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, a lonely o'hia tree stands out against the Milky Way in the middle of the night. O'hias are the first tree to take root in freshly-cooled lava after an eruption, so in this photo I am attempting to capoture a sense of new life against the backdrop of ancient skies.

Dimensions: 13 x 19 x 1.5
Media: digital photos
Artist Statement : A night on Beale Street in Memphis

Dimensions: 7 x 2.25 x 2.25
Media: Wood - Multi-axis lathe turned Holly with a beeswax carnauba blend finish
Artist Statement : I strive to create pleasing, fictional, and sometimes surprising objects from wood, along with having fun in the process. I search for wood that engages one’s imagination upon viewing the turned results. The intriguing shapes of multi-axis items are especially gratifying to make and invite speculation on how they were crafted.

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Dimensions: 10 x 8
Media: Original photo, encaustic paint, encaustic medium, oil pastels
Artist Statement : Wander in the neighborhood and see what surprises the night time reveals

Dimensions: 16 x 20 x 1
Media: Archival print of a 35mm black and white photo
Artist Statement : I like to take photos.

Dimensions: 18 x 24 x 1.5
Media: Digital photo on Epson Paper printed with Claria inks
Artist Statement : I was reminded of a painting by Paul Kee

Dimensions: 14 x 11
Media: Oil on board
Artist Statement : The moon was so intensely bright that warm summer night that I could not sleep. I got up and went outside to find it was almost as light as day, there were moon shadows everywhere. It was stunning and beautiful. I wasn't awake enough to paint on the spot but was able to get some moody photos with my cell phone. I was so inspired that I painted this the next day and it is one of my favorites. It takes me right to that moment - in our yard near the pond, the frogs and bugs at full volume, moonlight scraping the top of my hydrangea. Summer is the best.

Dimensions: 18 x 22 x 1
Media: Photography

Second Place

Dimensions: 16 x 18 x 1
Media: Monotype, Paint
Artist Statement : My work is concerned with improvisation, chance operations and oblique strategies. I draw from nature then repurpose and reference that material using collage. I work primarily with monotype and collage to craft both non-representational and narrative works.

Dimensions: 22 x 22 x 1
Media: Watercolor on Paper
Artist Statement : Lighting can make or break an image. I have seen Max in this exact position, engrossed in his phone, many times. In this instance the illuminated from the screen reversed the shapes of his features and made this an image one that I wanted to paint.

Dimensions: 12 x 12
Media: Limited edition photograph
Artist Statement : Various things spark my creativity; traveling feeds my soul, informs my images, and hones my aesthetic. I walk respectfully through the world to understand it and to share my discoveries with my images and objects. The luminous land, transcendent moments, and ancient whispering places inspire me. Jenna Lynch

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Dimensions: 43 x 12 x 8
Media: Ash log and paint pen
Artist Statement : This is a quote by Albert Camus that i absolutely love and believe; that it is essential to know the night.

Honorable Mention

Dimensions: 12 x 14
Media: intaglio Etching Print

Dimensions: 14 x 14 x 1
Media: Limited edition archival print
Artist Statement : Digital photograph taken in Evora, Portugal. The dramatic lighting and archway plus the lonely figure caught my attention.

Dimensions: 14 x 11 x 1
Media: encaustic on panel
Artist Statement : I work in pastels, en plein air; capturing views and the atmosphere and the space that surrounds me. My painting experiences may or may not result in completed works, but always provide me with a study, an underpainting, a memory that influence my encaustics. I work from and over my pastel paintings with encaustics enjoying the spontaneity and challenge of working with hot wax and pigment. Molten wax and pigment force me to simplify and work abstractly, starting with broad, quick strokes. Each layer of wax is melted and joined to the layer below with heat guns and torches. At this point, the nature of the encaustic takes over, I look forward to the movement and fluidness that occurs; I am painting with fire. Each encaustic painting is a sealed image of a landscape I stood.