HOUSTON, Feb. 21, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --Hunting PLC announced today that 109 artists have been selected to move on to the final round of judging in the 2012 Hunting Art Prize.
These artists will now enter the second phase of a two-tiered jury process for the $50,000 prize, historically the most generous annual award in North America for painting and drawing.
The panel of jurors that narrowed the submissions to the final 109 participants will reconvene in April to determine the winner, and the 2012 recipient will be announced at the Hunting Art Prize gala on April 28.
The artists, who come from more than 40 cities and towns throughout the state of Texas, are:
- Robert Green, Abilene
- Lap Ngo, Allen
- George Sorrels, Allen
- Luis Abreu, Austin
- Andrew Anderson, Austin
- Jeremy Burks, Austin
- K.C. Collins, Austin
- Jeff Crosby, Austin
- Bethany Johnson, Austin
- Susan Kemner Reed, Austin
- Heidi Landau, Austin
- Frank Malafronte, Austin
- Katie Maratta, Austin
- Rebecca Rothfus, Austin
- Win Wallace, Austin
- Katie Westmoreland, Austin
- Ellen Orseck, Bellaire
- Deanna Story, Cedar Creek
- Andrea Villarreal, Converse
- Fernando Ramirez, Cypress
- Awadh Baryoum, Dallas
- Heyd Fontenot, Dallas
- Sonali Khatti, Dallas
- Patrick Lewis, Dallas
- Ricardo Paniagua Garcia III, Dallas
- Jeff Parrott, Dallas
- Andrea Rosenberg, Dallas
- Michael Blair, Denton
- Mandy Cave, Denton
- MarcosHernandez, Denton
- John Howington, Denton
- Jennifer Jones, Denton
- M. C. Farris, Edinburg
- Sarina Fuhrmann, Euless
- Stuart Hausmann, Flower Mound
- Diane Walker-Gladney, Flower Mound
- John Barger, Fort Worth
- Daniel Blagg, Fort Worth
- Ron Cheek, Fort Worth
- Tom Delaney, Fort Worth
- Pat Gabriel, Fort Worth
- James Lassen, Fort Worth
- Frank McCulley, Fort Worth
- Misty Oliver-Foster, Frisco
- Rachel Wiley, Galveston
- Anna Bain, Garland
- Vera Barnett, Grandview
- Jack Barnett, Grandview
- Lori Giesler, Highland Village
- John Adelman, Houston
- Debra Barrera, Houston
- Michael Bise, Houston
- Brian Boyter, Houston
- Will Brooks, Houston
- Paul Carola, Houston
- Vachu Chilakamarri, Houston
- Vincent Fink, Houston
- Elizabeth Flores, Houston
- Lance Flowers, Houston
- David Gray, Houston
- Jimmy Houston, Houston
- Hogan Kimbrell, Houston
- Mindy Kober, Houston
- Laura Lark, Houston
- Garrett Middaugh, Houston
- Eric Pearce, Houston
- Kevin Peterson, Houston
- Julon Pinkston, Houston
- Ebony Porter, Houston
- Lee Wright, Houston
- Avery Zieben, Houston
- Joel Stanulonis, Katy
- Natalie Jones, Kyle
- Winter Rusiloski, Lakeside
- Janet Sopp Sims, Lakeway
- Ann Huey, Lancaster
- J. Todd Allison, League City
- Shannon Cannings, Lubbock
- Marc Watson, Lubbock
- Scott White, Lubbock
- Norman Bean, Maxwell
- Robert Dobscha, McKinney
- Michael Cross, Mesquite
- Lani Anderson, Missouri City
- Miguel Avila, Missouri City
- Anita Nelson, Missouri City
- Nicholas Boyd, Nederland
- Tommy Gregory, Paige
- Veronica Jaeger, Pharr
- Justine Wollaston, Pilot Point
- Elizabeth McDonald, Plano
- Rance Jones, Richardson
- Jason Webb, Round Rock
- Casey Arguelles Gregory, San Antonio
- Henry Catenacci, San Antonio
- Richard Deaver, San Antonio
- Megan Harrison, San Antonio
- Jayne Lawrence, San Antonio
- Dennis Olsen, San Antonio
- Lia Politi, San Antonio
- Chris Sauter, San Antonio
- Suzie Baker, Shenandoah
- George Fischer, Spicewood
- Gary J. Hernandez, Spring
- Fabio D'Aroma, Sugar Land
- Ted Reves, Sugar Land
- Jeremi McGuire, Tyler
- Derrick White, Tyler
- Nancy Lamb, Westworth Village
Hunting PLC moved the Hunting Art Prize to Houston in 2006 after a quarter century in the United Kingdom, where it emerged as one of Great Britain's top art awards. It is open to established, emerging, and amateur artists throughout Texas who are at least 18 years of age.
For more information on the prize, visit www.huntingartprize.com.
About Hunting PLC
Hunting PLC is an international oil services company providing support solutions to the world's largest oil and gas concerns. Established in 1874, it is a fully listed public company, traded on the London Stock Exchange. For further information, visit www.hunting.plc.uk.
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