2020 Small Stones Festival of the Arts
Welcome to the Small Stones Festival of the Arts - 2020 COVID-19 Edition
Awards Note: Jurors' Choice Awards were also given to each of the First and Second Prizewinners in each category, alhtough this gallery only supports showing one prize per work.
- VIEWING - Click on an image for a larger view.
- NAVIGATION - The images are sorted with prizewinners first (note that most prizes will be awarded on October 23), then alphabetically by artist last name. Note that there are 25 pages in the gallery - use the page selector to see more entries.
- SEARCHING - You can enter an artist's first or last name in the search box to find a given artist.
- FILTERING - You can create a filtered view to see only paintings or photography by selecting a choice in the Category Filter box. You can see only those entries selected by our jury for inclusion in our printed catalog by using the Tag Filter. The Tag Filter also allows you to view entries by members of the Blackstone Valley Art Association or Worcester County Camera Club.
- VOTING - Voting is now closed.
- PURCHASING ARTWORK - This year, Small Stones Festival is not directly selling any of the artwork on exhibition. If you wish to purchase an artwork, some of the works include a web address for the artist, allowing you to contact them directly via their website. For others, we will relay any messages sent to artists@smallstonesfestival.org. Specify which artist you wish to contact and provide your contact information.
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Ballet Slipper
Jim Calarese
$159.95
Artist statement: While photographing ballerinas at the Malecon in Havana, I noticed how worn the shoes were.
Specific medium: Photograph
Cuban Beauty
Jim Calarese
$195.99
Artist statement: As I was walking the streets of Trinidad, Cuba, I saw these beautiful eyes watching me photograph her town. I gestured to her asking silently if I could take her photo. I only wish I could have given her one.
Specific medium: Digital photograph
Preserving Memories
Joyce V. Caras
Artist statement: Collections of china and glassware have been in my family for years, passed down from generations. As an artist, I have turned these objects into still-life drawings and paintings and called the series ‘Preserved Memories.’ It is my way of keeping the memories of time, place and family alive.
Specific medium: Watercolor + graphite, watercolor paper
Locating the sentiment of sublimity
Jennifer Robin Caras
$3,750.00
Artist statement: At what point do we leave space −aesthetic detachment, also inadequacy− for insurmountable bound-boundless, shape-shapeless, phenomenological events surpassing empirical experience indistinguishable from compensatory natural cycles, fluxes, aftershock; accrued echo results of humanity’s piracy of ecosystems? May we capture a presentiment of ulterior consequence? What form of mediation of immediacy arises? Irrevocable, ethically attainable in a sensuous way? An agitating imperative to act upon?
Specific medium: Sublimation print on aluminium
Polarizations. Sunlight.
Jennifer Robin Caras
$3,750.00
Artist statement: Exposure, mere graphic suggestions of action of polarization. Of the process of affected radiation. Of visible wavebands, brightness oriented so that vibrations of specific regions of the electromagnetic spectrum assume another dimensional form. Incidental light, accidental brisk wind. Detectable wave band portrayal interrogation. Impossibility. Limitations. As narrative, as task as landscape. An experimental challenge moderately, as circumstantial. Intimations. Account. Missing contingencies.
Specific medium: Sublimation print on aluminium
Scots pine. Northern pine.
Jennifer Robin Caras
$3,750.00
Artist statement: Riga pine. A speculative introduction to a tree. Nomenclatures; identical species of. Arid climate, 1400 meters + sea level. Geographical designations. Of paramount importance. Wildlife disappearing. Broad-scale earth systems modifications. Occurring, are well underway. Extinction of orders. Numerous, countless, noninterchangeable. Progressive, relentless, inexorable. Finite, susceptible ecosystems. Irrecoverable processes yielding death. Irreversibility attained. No cure. Gesture. Awareness.
Specific medium: Sublimation print on aluminium
Light the Common
Sue Cardosi
$250.00
WCCC Member
Submission Url:
Artist statement: My interest in photography stared at a young age when I first borrowed my sisters Kodak Brownie camera. I found I could tell a story with photos and photos could tell me a story. What joy! While working at the Worcester Art Museum, I had the pleasure of walking among the "masters" which couldn't help but awaken my creative juices. Photography became my outlet for creativity.
Specific medium: Photography
Eli
Sue Cardosi
WCCC Member
Submission Url:
Artist statement: My interest in photography started at a young age when I first borrowed my sisters Kodak Brownie camera. I found I could tell a story with photos and photos could tell me a story. What joy! While working at the Worcester Art Museum, I had the pleasure of walking among the "masters" which couldn't help but awaken my creative juices. Photography became my outlet for creativity.
Specific medium: Photography
Plashes Pond
Sue Cardosi
$250.00
WCCC Member
Submission Url:
Artist statement: My interest in photography stared at a young age when I first borrowed my sisters Kodak Brownie camera. I found I could tell a story with photos and photos could tell me a story. What joy! While working at the Worcester Art Museum, I had the pleasure of walking among the "masters" which couldn't help but awaken my creative juices. Photography became my outlet for creativity.
Specific medium: Photography
Kintsugi Equine
Bethani Chadbourne
$250.00
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Artist statement: Archimedes was once a very timid horse. He was treated very roughly by humans. Under the care of his current owner, Esha Vogel, he was pieced back together and is stronger than ever before. He was shown love, true gold. He is truly reminiscent of Kintsugi Pottery.
Specific medium: photography
Kintsugi Equine, #2
Bethani Chadbourne
$250.00
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Artist statement: Archimedes was once a very timid horse. He was treated very roughly by humans. Under the care of his current owner, Esha Vogel, he was pieced back together and is stronger than ever before. He was shown love, true gold. He is truly reminiscent of Kintsugi Pottery.
Specific medium: photography
Kintsugi Equine, #3
Bethani Chadbourne
$250.00
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Artist statement: Archimedes was once a very timid horse. He was treated very roughly by humans. Under the care of his current owner, Esha Vogel, he was pieced back together and is stronger than ever before. He was shown love, true gold. He is truly reminiscent of Kintsugi Pottery.
Specific medium: photography
Queen Anne Lace at Sunset
Christine Chepeleff
$80.00
Artist statement: I combined the breathtaking beauty of a sunset at Wood Neck beach with the abundant Queen Ann Lace flowers...
Specific medium: Photography
The Red House
Christine Chepeleff
$80.00
Artist statement: I had the opportunity to stay in this wonderful old house, and of course, photograph her. The camera loved her, as you can see.
Specific medium: Photography
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