09/12/2009-10/09/2009
The 10th Annual Will's Creek Survey is a juried art exhibition that is open to visual artists from across the United States. The exhibition will be held in the Allegany Arts Council's Saville Gallery, which is located at 9 North Centre Street in Downtown Cumberland's Arts & Entertainment District. The exhibit showcases a wide variety of contemporary art and fine craft, and always draws an enthusiastic audience from the local community and the surrounding region. The opening reception for the 10th Annual Will's Creek Survey exhibition was held on Saturday, September 12 from 5-8PM, in conjunction with the a Arts Walk in Downtown Cumberland. During the Opening Reception, over than $6,000 in cash awards were presented, with two top prizes of $1,250 being awarded for Best of Show in 2-D and 3-D.

The Allegany Arts Council would like to extend its congratulations to the following artists from across the country who have been accepted to exhibit in the 2009 Will's Creek Survey:

• Ken Austin, NWS (FL) “Dark Planet Flower #2”
  $100 The Sophia Brill Art Award for Playfulness
  
• Terry Bachman (MD) “Broken Home”
  $100 Terry Lee & Pete Pihos Award for Work in Wood
  
• Tom Barnes (AL) “Untitled (Butterfly on a Banana)”
  
• Jean Barnes Downs (MD) “In the Spirit of Rothko II”
  $150 Patricia & Robert Llewellyn Award for Print Media
  
• Mary-Jo Bennett (WV) “The Art Student”
  $100 Allegany County Teachers' Federal Credit Union Award
  
• Meridith De Avila Khan (VA) “Academy of Music Theatre Balcony, View II” $100 Main Street Books Award for Photography
  
• Francine Ditton (FL) “Rosalita”
  $850 First Place - Gloria Saville Award
  
• Wayne Dodson (VA) “Blue Handrail”
  $250 Marion & Kim Leonard Award for Oil Painting
  
• Daniel Filippone (MD) “Luce Rotta”
  $1,250 BEST OF SHOW 2D - GARY HOROWITZ AWARD
  
• Rex Fogt (OR) “Gideon's Foil”
  
• Sage Foster (NY) “Sweet Heart”
  
• Sam Frons (CT) “Stretch - Tech”
  $1,250 BEST OF SHOW 3D - GARY HOROWITZ AWARD
  
• Karla Hackenmiller (OH) “Liminal Interplay #2”
  $300 Edith & Henry Gamson Award and
  $100 MaryAnn & Jim Moen Award for Print Media
  
• Dave Hammaker (PA) “Grass Valley Mercantile”
  $100 Yvonne Perret Award
  
• Linda Lee Herdering (MD) “Red Rosie”
  
• Monica Jacobs (CO) “Genou”
  
• Michael Kellers (OH) “Portrait (Diane Arbus)”
  
• Dana Klepper-Smith (NM) “Evolution”
  
• Andrea Land (MO) “Francesca”
  $100 Cindy Herzog Award
  
• Phillip E. Lichtenhan (AZ) “Gently Caught”
  $200 Wishbone & Daisy Award for Mixed Media
  
• Jesse Lindenberger-Schutz (NY) “Self Portrait Green Shirt”
  
• Kelly G. McCarthy (FL) “Cactus”
  $100 B.J. & Krista Davisson Award
  
• Tyler Mullan (MD) “It's Not Easy Being Green: Environmently - Based Deformities in Frogs”
  $200 Scarpelli Award for Creativity
  
• Isabella Natale (NY) “Change No. 44”
  
• Brian Paulsen (ND) “Summer Memories”
  $100 Western Maryland Watercolor Society Award
  
• Zach Quasny (MD) “Boxcar Interior”
  
• Richard Schneider (OH) “Reticulated Bowl”
  
• Mark Schoen (NY) “Danville Hallway”
  
• Nancy Small (MD) “Pretty Kitty”
  
• William M. Tarnowski (MA) “Le Corbusier Landscape”
  
• Sandy Tramel (TX) “Girl with Knapsack”
  
• Chris Walker (AL) “Jose and Heather, Marshall County Fair”
  $75 Connie & Bernard Grolman Award
  
• Bryan Warner (NJ) “Lightbulbs”
  $100 Frank Fotia & Patricia Hilton Award for Drawing
  
• Vaughn Wascovich (TX) “Marathon Texas”
  $100 Barbara Hurd & Stephen Dunn Award
  
• Joanna White (FL) “I Do Not Know Their Limits”
  $300 Third Place - Susan & John Davis and Karen & Jack Zealand Award
  
• Steven Williams (MD) “Underwater Family”
  
• Peggy Wyman (MO) “Metamorphosis of a Dream”
  $550 Second Place - Joy Luck Book Club Award