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WG@BE 2

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Saturday, October 12:

WG@BE2 officially opened.

Over a hundred Warm Glass Weekenders, friends, family and dozens of other warm-spirited enthusiasts joined us here at the Bullseye Connection Resource Center to celebrate the end of the first WGW Conference and to announce the winners of WG@BE2.

Bullseye Connection Director Lani McGregor joined WarmGlass website host and WGW conference organizer Brad Walker in awarding over $3000 in prizes to winners in the Functional, Non-functional and Jewelry categories of this year's competition:

Functional:

1st prize: Ron Coleman for "Red Treasure"
2nd prize: Doug Randall for "Vetro Mosaico con Battuto"
3rd prize: Ellen Abbott & Marc Leva for "Marriage Cups"

Non-Functional:

1st prize: Catharine Newell for "Man Caught with a Fish"
2nd prize: Todd Billmark for "Neolithic Diptych"
3rd prize: Lee Brady for "Pebble Dropped"

Jewelry:

1st prize: Sandra Leonard for "My Mann Fetish"
2nd prize: Annette Paskiewicz for "Flower Power Bracelet"
3rd prize: Geri Comstock for "Infinite Torque"

Best Entry by a Newcomer:

John Litvinenko for "Spy vs Spy"

Popular Prize:

Cynthia Oliver for "Tangerine"

Special thanks went to the jurors: Artist/educators Avery Anderson, Brock Craig, and Bob Leatherbarrow; WGW organizers Brad Walker and Jody Danner Walker; and Portland artists Linda Ethier and Roger Thomas.



 


Everybody's favorite Fred & Ginger Team: Brock Craig & Avery Anderson



Geri Comstock in the spotlight of yet another starring role!



Judith Conway and Kevin O'Toole from Vitrum studios in Maryland



WG@BE is nothing if not *hungry* work!



Harry waxes rhapsodic on the merits of kiln-cast anatomy



Harry Lucas of Bohle Tools and Doug Randall discuss the art of making big pieces of glass into little ones



Rebecca and Greg of Firehouse No. 12 chillin' out after days of rollin' up



Catharine Caught with Friends: Doug of Portland and Amy of Milwaukee



Los Angelina Sheila Siegel and "Deconstructed Image"



Dr. Steve Immerman of Eau Claire and "China Black"




Spab insists: no autographs please!



By way of demonstrating what it's all about, Jackie Beckman puts her best shoe forward. (This Kodak© moment captured by paparazzi extraordinaire, Steve Immerman.)