PAA’s first in-person spring show since 2019 was a successful event, featuring a display of more than 100 paintings, numerous sales and a packed house for the awards reception. Some of the highlights of the reception are offered here in photos by Bev Cronkite and Bill McCullough.
Erika Hutch with ‘Summer Sun,’ her Best of Show award-winning portrait of her granddaughter.
Betty Bird received two Juror Awards for her mixed media ‘assemblage’ pieces.
Show co-chairs Jane June and Jack Heister presented a book to the Penfield Library on behalf of PAA. This year’s selection featured the work of noted Rochester artist Harry Bliss.
Show co-chair Jane June took home a Juror Award for ‘Ageing Gracefully.’
Marilyn Nosky and her Merit Award winner, ‘Ripening.”
Susan Fredericks Hodes received a Juror Award for ‘First Heartbreak.’
Linda Marzano was delighted to receive three Merit Awards.
Kathleen Warren’s oil painting, ‘Tulips,’ received a Merit Award.
Yeou-jih Yang’s painting (lower right) ‘At Powder Mill Park’ was a Merit Award winner.
Nancy Mallo received a Merit Award for ‘By the Sea,’ shown here, and another for ‘Evening Stroll.’
Yui Kinney received a Juror Award for ‘Walk Beside Me’ (bottom) and a Merit Award for ‘Bee Lavendar.’
Doris Hooker received a Juror Award for ‘Spring Promise.’