The Ohio Watercolor Society Award of Distinction went to Chris Misencki-Bunn of Fredricktown and Sharon Stolzenberger of Kettering.
Chris Leeper of Canfield and David N. Mack of Toledo both received the Ohio Watercolor Society Award Of Merit.
The following individual awards also were handed out: M. Graham & Company Award to Paul St. Denis of Bay Village; Doug Pasek Memorial Awards to Altagracia Melgar of Holland; St. Cuthbert’s Mill Award to Gail Peters of Mentor; Marti Fenker Memorial Award to Charles Rowland of Lewis Center; Canson Inc. Award, to Carolyn Hibbard of Villa Hills, Ky.; and Cheap Joe’s Art Supply Award to Peter Frederick of Dayton.
Troy Christian High School student, Paul Conover, won the Hodnett-Hacker Memorial High School Student Scholarship and the Ohio Watercolor Society College Scholarship went to Brianna Johnson from the School of Advertising Art.
The Troy-Hayner Cultural Center is exhibiting the Ohio Watercolor Society’s 77 paintings that were juried for this year’s exhibition. The OWS’s exhibition includes landscapes, still lifes, portraits and abstracts with painting styles ranging from very traditional watercolor to unconventional methods combining acrylics, inks, Prisma pencils and overlays with the watercolor paint.
Dayton-area artists Joan Clark, Louise Doorley, John Emery, Peter Frederick, Rosie Huart, Sharon Stolzenberger and former Troy resident Angela Chang have paintings in the exhibit. The exhibition is on display at Hayner through Sunday, Oct. 4.
In conjunction with the OWS exhibition, local watercolorists Marcus Miller and Pauline Persing have a mini exhibit of small paintings in the solarium display case at Hayner. For both, artists landscapes and nature are a major focus. While Miller’s paintings incorporate historical sites and old deteriorated buildings in his landscapes, Persing’s focus is on individual flowers and birds.
For more information, visit www.troy-hayner.org.