Viewfinder: Green Comes in Many Different Forms and Shades

In January, the issued a national call for artists to enter work in any size, medium or concept that relates to a "green" theme. Over the next few months more than 300 entries were submitted. The task of choosing 50 fell to guest juror Kate McNamara, director and curator of the Boston University Art Gallery. 

"GREEN" could be a color, a cause, money, food or ecology" explained Mim Brooks Fawcett, director at the Attleboro Arts Museum.

"The theme was chosen for its diversity and we were not disappointed," Fawcett said. "Each artist wore a green paper carnation for two reasons, first to recognize them as entered in the competition and second so guests can approach them to ask to see their interpretation on the theme.

Fawcett has learned in the past that artists create their work not just to create it, but to share it and have an opportunity to discuss it with others. Fawcett presented the juror awards to six of the artists using various mediums from a digital collage to a textile work in process.

• Michelle Acuff from Walla Walla Washington for her deer lawn ornament. 
• Mia Capodilupo from Chicago for her textile wall hanging.
• Donna Catanzaro from Windham, NH for her digital collage on bottled water.
• Virginia Fitzgerald from Natick, MA for her crocheted work in process that has many trash-worthy items woven in to it.
• Elaine Pawlowicz from Dallas, TX for her garden hose painting
• Lisa Gabrielle Russell from Braintree, MA for her "Intonation" oil on canvas