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Fence Art Show Award Winners: 1972

DATES May 20, 1973 through June 17, 1973
ORGANIZING DEPARTMENT Community Gallery
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  • May 10, 1973 As indigenous to Brooklyn as the hardy ailanthus is that colorful annual, THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM FENCE ART SHOW, which blooms this year on Sunday, May 20, from 11 A.M. to 5 P.M. (rain date: May 27). Paintings, sculpture, graphics, ceramics and crafts will garland the Museum fence around the parking lot on Washington Avenue and along Eastern Parkway. THE FENCE ART SHOW is sponsored by the Community Committee, with Mrs. Joseph Coltrera serving as chairman, and Mrs. Henry Hayden, co-chairman.

    Judging the 190 entries are Barbara Bullock, curator, Museum of Contemporary Crafts; Virginia Cantarell, painter; graphic artist Risaburo Kimura; and Kendall Shaw, assistant director, Brooklyn Museum Art School, and the award-winning entries will be shown in the Museum’s Community Gallery next year.

    An exhibition of the works of the seventeen artists who received awards in the Museum’s 1972 FENCE ART SHOW also open in the Community Gallery on May 20 and will remain on view through June 17. Included are paintings, sculpture, jewelry, ceramics, photography and graphics.

    Participating in 1972 FENCE SHOW WINNERS exhibition are: Earline Eason, Flatbush (jewelry); Ilene Ferber, Manhattan (ceramics); Reginald Fludd, Huntington, L.I. (painting); Roger Gooding, Crown Heights (photography); Anita Graff, Flatbush (jewelry); Wendy Hatch, Clinton Hill (graphics); Judith Kunhardt, Flatbush (drawing); Marilyn Mark, Midwood (painting); Joan Mesznik, Manhattan (ceramics); Onnie Millar, Crown Heights (folk art); Jane Schecter, Brooklyn Heights (ceramics); Jack Schuyler, Rego Park (sculpture); Miles David Sebold, Flushing (graphics); Sol Swerdloff, Corona (painting); Richard Thatcher, Queens (graphics); Helene Merle Weiss, Manhattan (painting); George Wilson, Bronx (painting).

    This exhibition Is made possible by a grant from the New York State Council on the Arts.

    Brooklyn Museum Archives. Records of the Department of Public Information. Press releases, 1971 - 1988. 1973, 011.
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