PAINT THE TOWN EXHIBITION AWARDS

Paint the Town Competition (Alpharetta Arts Center)
  • John Guernsey "Chairs and Umbrellas", Professional 1st Place $700.00
  • Donna Biggee "View from the Top",  Professional 2nd Place $500.00
  • Stephanie Amato  "A Walk in the Garden",  Professional 3rd Place $300.00
  • Novice 1st Place $300.00
  • Monica Gupta "Lilies at Attig's Garden", Novice 2nd Place $200.00
  • Julie Roberts  "Alpharetta's Lady",  Novice 3rd Place  $100.00
  • VOTE for People’s Choice now through May 19th!
Debra Nadelhoffer, Juror’s Statement
 
When judging an art exhibition, I look at several things.  First I want to see what the artist was intending to create, an exceptional level of drawing skills and an interesting composition.
 
The work should tell a story through the use of shapes, values, atmosphere, consistency of light,  brushwork, sense of place and creativity.   So many of the paintings fulfilled these guidelines and made the choices difficult. This was such a beautiful show! It was so difficult to choose top awards and I only wish I could have given out more! 

PAINT THE TOWN QUICK DRAW AWARDS

Quick Draw (Brooke Street Park)
  • Peter Ho "God's Light",  Professional 1st Place $250.00
  • Ed Cahill "Fountain in Paradise",  Professional 2nd Place $200.00
  • Mary Negron "Wills Bench",  Professional 3rd Place $150.00
  • Diana Clement "Stream by the Guest House",  Novice 1st Place $100.00
  • Joan Zell "Thompson's Patio", Novice 2nd Place $75.00
  • Julie Roberts "Flower Truck",  Novice 3rd Place $50.00​ ​
  • VOTE for People’s Choice now through May 19th!

Congratulations People's Choice Winners, Paint the Town 2021!

The people have spoken! Visitors, friends, guests voted online for the People's Choice Awards for Paint the Town 2021.
​Overall People's Choice:  Stephanie Amato
Quick Draw People's Choice: Dana Enders
Paint the Town Exhibition - May 2021
'Quick Draw' Artists & Images

MEET THE JURORS

PAINT THE TOWN Awards Juror
DEBRA NADELHOFFER

​I have loved color and creating since I was a child.  Rainy days spent inside coloring or painting were my favorite activities.  Not much has changed, a rainy day remains an invitation to turn on some beautiful music and create at the easel. I painted from home while raising my family, studying books and working first with watercolor, then pastels and finally oils.  I was president of Southeastern Pastel Society for seven years.  The desire to paint from life sent me outside into the landscape to paint plein air.  Painting plein air has enhanced my work beyond what I could have imagined.  I continue to paint plein air for my own education, working on location and bringing information back into the studio where I remember colors, sounds and impressions that no photograph can duplicate. I particularly love painting the mountains, coast and water anywhere.  My greatest compliment is when someone says my paintings make them feel like they are there. 
Most recently, I was accepted into the Oil Painters of America 2021 National Juried Exhibition, 18th National American Society of Marine Artists (ASMA) Exhibition travelling to 5 museums from March 2020-March 2021, the 2019 Eastern Regional OPA exhibition in Birmingham AL, the 19th Annual American Impressionists Society (AIS) Exhibition. I am Signature Member of AIS and ASMA. My paintings have been included in the  27th National Oil Painters of America Exhibition,  American Society of Marine Artists Invitational at Principle Gallery, my painting The Crossing won the Best Building in a Landscape award in the June/July 2017 PleinAir Salon competition, Oil Painters of America Eastern Regional Exhibition 2017, American Impressionists Society Small Works Show 2016, and I am one of Pastel Journals December 2016 issue,  10 Artists to Watch. I have had paintings accepted into OPA 2016 Salon, ASMA Seventeenth National, the Oil Painters of America 25th National Juried Exhibition, Southeastern Pastel Society 17th International, American Impressionist Society 16th National Exhibition,  WPSE Fifth Annual Exhibition 2016, American Society of Marine Artists Regional and National,  the American Women Artists 2015 National Juried Exhibition and one into Oil Painters of America Juried Salon Show of Traditional Oils at Beverly McNeil Gallery in Birmingham, AL in October.  I participated in Olmstead Plein Air Paintout in Atlanta, GA 2016, the 2015 Door County Plein Air Festival,  was an exhibiting artist at Southeastern Wildlife Expo (SEWE) in Charleston, SC in 2014, 2015 and 2016,  and Plein Air Richmond and Callaway Gardens Paintouts.  

QUICK DRAW Awards Juror-  ​STEPHANIE AMATO

​Stephanie was born and raised on Long Island, NY. Choosing computer programming as her first career, her passion for drawing and painting prompted her to pursue an education in Visual Art. She entered the Illustration program at Parson’s School of Design, continuing at the Art Students League and the New York Academy. She later moved to New Jersey obtaining a degree as a Graphic Designer and established the graphic design firm SMA Designs.
 
She has participated in many local and national exhibitions, is a  Signature Member of the American Impressionist Society, Signature Member of the Pastel Society of New Jersey and a Resident Member of the Salmagundi Club. Stephanie’s work has been featured in Plein Air Magazine, Southwest Art, American Artist and American Art Collector magazines.
 
“Working in oils, I paint impressionistic landscapes, floral and figurative compositions.  My intention is to produce work which creates energy and movement that will resonate with the viewer.”
 
Stephanie currently resides in Milton, Georgia working both in her studio and outdoors on location.  Her work can be seen through many fine galleries along the east coast.