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Prizes Awarded for Community Arts Challenge

The Community Arts Challenge celebration of local art, music, poetry and creative writing and dance was held Friday, January 27, 2012 at the Center for the Arts in Homer. The Community Arts Challenge, open to all, is co-sponsored by the Homer Center for the Arts and the Cultural Council of Cortland County.

The theme for 2011 was "Friendship." A new theme is chosen annually. The following prizes were awarded at the celebration:

FINE ARTS

• First Place: Rona Knobel for "Vivi, Bandit and High Ball on an Adventure in the Big Horn Mountains"
• Second Place: Jae Harris for "Three Amigos"
• Third Place: Emily Gibbons for "At the Fountain"
• Honorable Mention: Michael Sheppard for "Color and Look of Jealousy"
• Honorable Mention: David Beale for "Homestead"

PHOTOGRAPHY

• First Place: Kathy Williams for "Kinship"
• Second Place: Sherry Dans for "Comfort Zone"
• Third Place: Torrie Tiffany for "Our Sons"
• Honorable Mention: Kathie Beale for "A Pig is a Pig"
• Honorable Mention: Christa M. Boice for "Friday Afternoon Friends"
• Honorable Mention: John E. Lutz for "Fishing: Evolving Friendship Between a Father and a Son"

ARTISAN CRAFTS

• First Place Tie: Terry Fendya for "Stand By Me"
• First Place Tie: Cheri Sheridan for "Friends"

MUSICAL COMPOSITION

• First Place: Greg McQuade for "Meet Me at Rainbow Bridge"
• Second Place: Barry Morris for "Time With You"
• Third Place: John Lutz for "Sunrise"
• Third Place: Lewis Rosengarten for "In Night"
• Honorable Mention: Joe Heider for "Sway"

POETRY

• First Place: Meghan Aagaard for "Character Study"
• Second Place: Lynn Olcott for "Friendship"
• Third Place Tie: Nancy Dafoe for "Communing With Juno"
• Third Place Tie: Priscilla Breggren-Thomas for "Friends Come on Two and Four Legs"
• Honorable Mention: Nancy Dafoe for "On Friendship"

PROSE

• First Place: Nancy Dafoe for "Piano Heads"
• Second Place: Barry Morris for "Chet of the Aphorismus"
• Third Place: Martin Sweeney for "The Sergeant's Story"

CHOREOGRAPHY

• First Place Tie: Rachel McNeil and Tamsin Smith for "Not Too Late"
• First Place Tie: Cassidy Halpin, Bailey Kote, McKenzie Morey, and Amanda Reyngoudt for "Angel"

For more information visit cortlandartschallenge.org.