Arts and Crafts Show
Winners Named; Record
Crowds See Many Exhibits
I he ever increasing* popularity ,
of the Keftah Peninsula Arts and
Crafts Show was evidenced this
past weekend by a total attend
ance of 652 persons at the fourth
annual event in comparison to the
-180 registered last year.
Exhibits and viewers were from
all over the Peninsula, with spec
tators from the greatest distance
being Venetia and John Newall
of Chelsea, London, England.
Co-sponsored by the Kenai
Community Library and the Ke
nai Educational Assoc., the ex
hibits drew 202 adults and 174
juveniles on Saturday, the first
day. and 173 adults and 103 ju
veniles on Sunday. No admission
was charged but cash donations
for expenses of the show totalled
$77.37, according to Mrs. Allan
L. Petersen, Kenai city librarian
and overall director of the event.
In the adult division there were
54 oil paintings entered, 5 pastels,
5 water colors, 10 black and white
entries in ink, charcoal or cai’bon
pencil, anti 4 paintings in miscel
laneous classification.
The juvenile paintings division
listed 8 in oil, 2 in water color,
5 in black and white and 6 in mis
cellaneous.
The crafts division for adults
drew 7 in ceramics, 4 multi-piece
entries in jewelry, 7 in leather
craft, 6 in woodwork and 9 in mis
cellaneous. Crafts in the juvenile
division had 9 entries.
For display only, but surround
ed by many interested viewers,
was a scale model of Coastal
Drilling TTompany’s Rig No. 3, as
submitted by Dick Hardin. Also
for display only, was a stone slab
tabletop by f>: Morton of Wild
wood Station. „
Adult Winners
“Alaska’s Varied Thrush,’’ a
water color painting by Boyd J.
Shfffer of'- Moose Pass was
awarded two ribbons, a blue rib
Juqn as first, in its^latiiifiratiou
and a purple ribbon To* tRe “Best
of Show” award presented for
the best exhibit entered in the
show.
Shaffer’s “Wintering Harle
quins” placed second in water col
ors and Bob Parret of Seward
won honorable mention with his
watercolor painting of “Mile 18
Seward Peninsula.” All were in
the adult classification.
Ribbons awarded in the adult
oil painting division went to Joyce
Hines, Seward, for first place
with “Winter Sun on Mt. Alice;”
and Frost Jones, Kenai, second
with “Naptowne Night.” By popu
lar vote, Mrs. Jones’ “Naptowne
Night,” was ranked highest of
any painting in the show and
Sparky Green, Kenai, with his un
titled oil painting of a moose
kill, was voted second best in the
popular vote count. Honorable
mention in the oil painting entries
went to Eileen Crandall, Kenai,
for “Mt. Spur;” to George Bog
nar, Kenai, for an un-titled pic
ture, and to Joyce Hines, Seward,
for “Mt. Alice.”
In pastels, Joyce Hines, Sew
ard, won first place blue ribbon
with “Frank” while her “Hunters
on Denali” placed second and her
“Althea” received honorable men
tion.
“Hoofing It,” a charcoal by
Pearl Kingsley of • Clam Gulch
was blue ribbon winner in tl»e
black and white division for
adults. Betty Ames, Kenai, placed
second with her ink painting of
“Bird Tree at Lunch Time.” Art
untitled charcoal by Mairiis Kil
cher, Homer, received honorable
mention. --
In the miscellaneous adult
painting division, Pearl Kingsley,
Clam Gulch, won first with a
Cray onex painting, “Coveted
Catch.” Mairiis Kilcher, Homer,
won second with a tempera
Mrs. Allan I’etersen shows the judges some of the drawings submitted by the children for the Arts
and (’rafts Show. L to R: Mrs. Allan F’etersen, Miss Alice McGrath. Mrs. James Fisher. Mrs. Richard
Allen and Major Leo C. Nicholas.
painting and honorable mention
with a crayon entry, neither of
which was named.
Among- the many crafts entries
in the adult division, in ceramics
it was first place to Pascal Mason
of Wildwood Station for his
Zombie Zula and second to Em
mett Capper, also of Wildwood,
for a wall hanging- (Capper’s
Cottage) while Charles Harris,
North Kenai, received honorable
mention with a ceramic tile.
In the jewelry category, Ken
Warburton, Moose Pass, received
first place blue ribbon on “Sour
dough,” a piece of gold jewelry;
and Ed Donaldson, Moose Pass,
second with a “Cache” pin of
birchwood. Juanita Coleman, Ke
nai, received honorable mention
un a jade jasper jewelry item
and Betty Ames on a yellow flow
er of castolite jewelry.
In leatherwork it was, ,£irst.
place for Lonnie Mullins, Wild
wood Station, with a tooled
leather handbag. H. Brown, Wild
wood, received two red ribbons,
one for placing- second in leather
work and the other for placing
second by popular vote in the
adult crafts classification.
Other adult winners were Mai
Cole, Kenai, first with a birch
lamp in woodwork and honorable
mention with a fruit bowl. Alex
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