Awards were granted in the following categories to those encapsulating the environmental crisis theme:
Jelly Nation – Marsha Borden, Guilford, CT
A Voter’s Advertisement
Brianna Cook, Tannersville, PA
Otto Grever Printmaking Award
Desert Sea I
Scott Magin, New York City, NY
3-D Award
PLAN{et} B Ain’t Pretty
Susan O’Hanlon, Downingtown, PA
2-D Award
Fracking-Marcellus Shale
Mary Waltham, Princeton, NJ
Make America Gasp Again
Jack Swersie, Reeders, PA
ARTSPACE Gallery Student Award
Plady and Blue Ocean
Maxine Leu, SUNY New Paltz, NY
Origins Gallery Award
Dead Air
Matthew Casella, East Stroudsburg, PA
Honorable Mention
Frog Queen
Ian Leiva, East Stroudsburg, PA


Juror, Harry C Tabak
Tabak’s early work reflects his bond to nature through his landscape paintings. Social commentary followed with an emphasis on environmental issues for nearly two decades. These works were the subject of numerous exhibitions at the Dorsky Galleries in NYC (80’s) and museums. The Wichita Art Museum sponsored a traveling exhibition titled “The Radwaste and Stonehenge Books” a series of sculptural ‘books’ in a collaboration with artist Nava Atlas. The series then traveled to several other museums sponsored by the Art Gallery at SUNY New Paltz (now the Dorsky Museum).
Tabak began to explore sculpture as a medium in 2001 utilizing found natural materials. These became the basis for his current experiments often describes as ‘three dimensional drawings’. These are compositions utilizing wood, stone, glass, discarded broken materials, as well as metallic objects. Mr. Tabak studied Painting and Sculpture at The Art Students League of NY; Brooklyn College. Learn more about Tabak here…