Every picture, painting and sculpture tells a story as artists look to make their mark on Park Avenue. Photos by: Jim Carchidi
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Vibrant colors and personalities adorned the downtown area as creators and patrons gathered for the 65th edition of the Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival, March 15-17. The list of 219 exhibiting artists vied for the attention of an estimated 250,000 visitors, and for the festival’s cash awards totaling $76,500. The Best of Show Purchase Award went to self-taught landscape painter Hernan Rodriguez while the Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation Purchase Award went to Wonda Granville, whose drawings tell the story of her family’s move to Florida during the mid-1940’s. The full list of this year’s winners is available at wpsaf.org.
Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival is a 501(c)(4) that pools the resources of an all-volunteer board to screen applications, set and fill the event schedule, and select judges for the weekend-long process of deciding which artists will attend the event. The variety of this year’s work included satirical pieces by digital artist Tanya Doskova, the humorous clay sculptures of Kina Crow, and alluring one-of-a-kind images by photographer Paige Whitcomb.
Whitcomb is experienced in the tintype technique of exposing metal sheets treated with light-sensitive lacquer to produce images. “The plates have to be developed right away,” she said. The process often ends with the direct positives she exposes using antique cameras, but she will also digitally scan some plates to produce large-scale prints. “I like the process for its one-off style, so when I do make a print, I only make one to keep that integrity and create something that is unique.”
See the photo gallery for a look at some of the work and a few of the award winners at the 65th Annual Winter Park Sidewalk Art Festival.
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This story was written by Jim Carchidi, one of our collection of writers covering news in Winter Park, Florida. Our staff writers can be reached at news@the32789.com.
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