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Blossom I Art Exhibition & Tour (2006-2009)

THE FOUNDATION: • About Us • Our Mission • Events • Contributions • Grant Applications • Instructors PARTICIPATE: • Legacy News • Audio Files • BLOSSOM II ~ ART OF FLOWERS 2010 Artist Entry Deadline 2011-2012 Exhibition Premiere & Tour • SKB Alumni Roster SUSAN K. BLACK: • Susan K. Black • Books & Prints DAVID J. WAGNER, Ph.D. BLOSSOM TOUR DIRECTOR
	BLOSSOM I FINALISTS (Alphabetical by last name) Selected from 1,742 entries representing 970 artists from 14 different countries. View the Exhibition Venues and Tour Intinerary ~ Artwork images © the respective Artists and the Susan K. Black Foundation ~ Award Winners: Best of Show - $25,000 My Grandmother Dreams in Peonies: Stacy Barter Founder's Award - $4,000 Pink Bloom - Mitch Baird Best Miniature - $1,000 Dandelion Bouquet - Jeffrey T. Larson Judges Excellence Awards - $5,000 - Tropaeolum Majus - Milly Acharya - Angel Trumpets - Kenn Backhaus - Tradescantia Virginiana Isis - Lizzie Sanders - Hyacinth/Tulip - Sharon L. Sprung - Purple Heart - Soon Y. Warren Juror's Choice Awards - $1,250 - Big Bend Bloom - Dennis Farris - Columbine - Catherine Giudicy - I Am The Dung On Which These Flowers Grew - Dirk Hagner - Sweet Rose - Mark Hemleben - Ming Vase & Bloom - Jacqueline Kamin - Hibiscus Coccineus - Dianne McElwain - Orchid at Night - Lexi Sundell - Tulips with Horseshoe Falls - Sherrie Wolf
	©Acharya, Milly (Ithaca, NY) Judges Excellence Award	©Aigaki, Dianne (Minneapolis, MN)	©An, Shin Young (West New York, NJ)	©Avary, Beth (Boulder Creek, CA)	©Backhaus, Kenn (Robesonia, PA) Judges Excellence Award	©Baird, Mitch (West Linn, OR) Founder's Award
	©Barter, Stacy (Winter Park, FL) Best of Show	©Beaton, Ricardo (Bronx, NY)	©Breen, Harry (Champaign, IL)	©Campbell, Naomi (Brooklyn, NY)	©Carlton, Kim (The Woodlands, TX)	©Crampton, Celia (Ascott Under Wychwood, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom)
	©Daniels, Linda (Locust Grove, OK)	©DeHaan, Jeanne (Milford, MI)	©Fain, Melanie (Boerne, TX)	©Farris, Dennis (Fort Worth, TX) Juror's Choice Award	©Giudicy, Catherine (New Port Richey, FL) Juror's Choice Award	©Graves, Pria (Palo Alto, CA)
	©Hackley, Stephen Kenneth (Richardson, TX)	©Hagner, Dirk (San Juan Capistrano, CA) Juror's Choice Award	©Heine, Caren E. (Alberta, Canada)	©Hemleben, Mark (Jerome, AZ) Juror's Choice Award	©Iliov, Jelu A. (Phoenix, AZ)	©Jublou, Kathy (Norfolk, VA)
	©Kamin, Jacqueline (Newport Beach, CA) Juror's Choice Award	©Larson, Jeffrey (Maple, WI) Best Miniature	©Leites, Ara (Santa Cruz, CA)	©Levin, Dana (Pawtucket, RI)	©Lok, Joan (Columbia, MD)	©Mackenzie, Jeanne (LaPorte, CO)
	©Makuck, Ann (Rockland, ME)	©McCreary, Jane (Tucson, AZ)	©McElwain, Dianne (Cincinnati, OH) Juror's Choice Award	©McGrory, Anne T. (Nashua, NH)	©Mosieur, Alix (Lorane, OR)	©Nelson, B. B. (Gray, ME)
	©Nguyen, Joy (Dallas, TX)	©Pace, Nancy (Laguna Hills, CA)	©Parks, Paula (Shoreline, WA)	©Patterson, Annie (Surrey, United Kingdom)	©Payne, Woodward (Mill Valley, CA)	©Petchnick, Linda (Enumclaw, WA)
	©Polzin, Kyle (Bellaire, TX)	©Ray, Ruth (Scottsville, VA)	©Royston, Scott B. (Baltimore, MD)	©Sadle, Amy (Syracuse, NE)	©Sanders, Lizzie (Edinburgh, United Kingdom) Judges Excellence Award	©Siegrist, Wes (Townsend, TN)
	©Smith, Grace S. (San Francisco, CA)	©Sprung, Sharon (Brooklyn, NY) Judges Excellence Award	©Sundell, Lexi (Ennis, MT) Juror's Choice Award	©Sutiono, Soegito (Jakarta, Indonesia)	©Thierfelder, Vivian (Alberta, Canada)	©Thomas, Fred W. (Shoreline, WA)
	©vanRaalte, Jeannetta (Brooklyn, NY)	©Von Isser, Elizabeth (Oro Valley, AZ)	©Warren, Soon Y. (Fort Worth, TX) Judges Excellence Award	©Warren, Soon Y. (Fort Worth, TX)	©Whitney, Marc (San Clemente, CA)	©Winters, Caroline Jones (Germantown, TN)
	©Wolf, Sherrie (Portland, OR) Juror's Choice Award

PREMIERE

HOUSTON MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCE
March 17 - June 17, 2007
1 Hermann Circle Dr.
Houston, TX 77030
(713) 639-4629; hmns.org

TOUR VENUES

NEVILLE PUBLIC MUSEUM
July 21 - September 16, 2007
210 Museum Place
Green Bay, WI 54303
(920) 448-4460; nevillepublicmuseum.org

DUNNEGAN GALLERY OF ART
November 11 - December 2, 2007
511 North Pike
Bolivar, MO 65613
(417) 326-5872; dunnegangallery.com

ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM ART INSTITUTE
January 1 - March 31, 2008
2021 N Kinney Road
Tucson AZ 85743
(520) 883-3024; desertmuseum.org
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvoFE5QSNyE

THE R.W. NORTON ART GALLERY
May 13 – August 3, 2008
4747 Creswell Ave.
Shreveport, LA 71106
(318) 865-4201; rwnaf.org

THE WILDLIFE EXPERIENCE
August 23 - November 16, 2008
10035 South Peoria Street
Parker, CO 80134
(720) 488-3300; thewildlifeexperience.org

THE DIXON GALLERY AND GARDENS
January 25 - March 22, 2009
4339 Park Avenue
Memphis, TN 38117
(901) 761-5250; dixon.org

THE SPARTANBURG ART MUSEUM
April 18 - June 14, 2009
385 S. Spring Street
Spartanburg, SC 29306
(864) 582-7616; spartanburgartmuseum.org
Public Opening: Thursday, May 21, 2009, 6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
- BLOSSOM Curator/Tour Director and Author, Dr. David J. Wagner will talk about and autograph copies of his new book American Wildlife Art at the opening.
- Also that evening, Art Walk: Spartanburg Art Museum, Carolina Gallery, Crescent Gallery, MYST, The Artists' Guild of Spartanburg, Gallery 155 and the The Artists' Gallery.

THE CANTON MUSEUM OF ART
July 1 - September 30, 2009
1001 Market Avenue, North
Canton, OH 44702
(330) 453-7666; cantonart.org

BLOSSOM ~ ART OF FLOWERS is available for display at Museums and Educational and Scientific Institutions such as Botanical Gardens.
To schedule BLOSSOM ~ ART OF FLOWERS contact:
DAVID J. WAGNER, L.L.C., TOUR OFFICE
www.american-wildlife-art.com
(414) 221-6878; davidjwagnerllc@yahoo.com

BLOSSOM I ~ ART OF FLOWERS CATALOGUE AND POSTERS NOW AVAILABLE

A fully illustrated color catalogue with an introduction by Dr. David J. Wagner, is now available from the Susan K. Black Foundation.

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