CLEARFIELD – The Susquehanna River Arts Center of Clearfield held its annual art show to recognize and award the talented artists in the area.
The judge for the SRACC Juried Art show for 2021 was the talented Clearfield native, Gretchen Passmore. Gretchen is a student of the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, Calif.
She is skilled in charcoal, sketching, digital, graphic and portrait art. She enjoys all art mediums; however, her focus is 2D animation, storyboarding and digital-related to her future occupation.
Gretchen credits her professors for teaching light, shadowing, perspective and proportion to bring her art to life. However, she enjoys sports from a different view, focusing on movement, form and posture.
Gretchen’s time at college has been hectic. In addition to her primary and more focused areas of study, she was chosen for the lead in Copic Marker, an animated series, as well as an animated series titled, Hello, I’m Steve that is still in production.
Gretchen has done commissioned work with graphic art, portrait art and animation.
The 2021 Juried Art Show winners are as follows:
2D Photo:
- Best of Show and First Place winner – Carolyn Shiffhouer for “Forest Cathedral”
- Second Place – Tammy Young for “Kinzua Ruins”
- Third Place – Tammy Young for “Life in a Droplet”
3D Artwork:
- First Place – Martha Bloom for “Dots Make the Cat”
- Second Place – Gary Holt for “The Forest Dragon”
- Third Place – Anju Jolly for “Mother & Child”
2D Artwork:
- First Place – Gloria Rowles for Belgian
- Second Place – Mariann Fyda for “Making of 101 W. 87th”
- Third Place – Linda Shultz for “Clearfield Riverwalk”
Please join SRACC for its reception planned for Saturday, Oct. 30 at 1 p.m. at the art center on Market Street next to the Ritz movie theater.