2005 Portrait Society of America

[Linda Brandon]

Well, here's a blurry photo of the Finalists. I will remove this photo as soon as somebody else posts a better one, so if you have one, please post it. I also need help identifying the people here, so please email me privately if you can help me out and I can make a list.

The two tall gentlemen on the right in the back are Garth Herrick and Tony Pro. Congratulations again!

[Linda Brandon]

Here's a photo of the combined Merit Award and Certificate of Recognition winners (not everybody was there at the conference). Again, I don't have all the names, so please email me and I will post them here.

Marvin Mattelson is third from the left standing in the back row next to Chris Saper and Sergio Ostroverhy is standing second from the right. I'm seated, the third one from the left.

[Garth Herrick]

There are 13 finalists in Linda's photo above.

The eight standing in the rear received Honors Awards. L-R:

Steven Pan, California
Jean-Paul Tibbles, UK
Xiangyuan Jie, NY
John Michael Carter
Jennifer Welty
Glenn Harrington
Garth Herrick
Tony Pro


The five seated received the big awards. L-R:

Mau-kun Yim, Taiwan
Joseph Daily (First Place & People's Choice)
Romulo Galicano, Philippines (Grand Prize)
Paul Newton, Australia
Stephen Craighead

Garth

[Sharon Knettell]

Garth,

How TERRIFIC for you. I could not be happier. It was a beautiful painting. The others must have been wowsers to beat it.

Although I would have preferred a more Rocky like picture of you holding the award aloft, say in red silk boxing trunks and high tops.

Just a thought.

[Tom Edgerton]

Special congrats to OUR winners! It was GREAT meeting all you Forum folks that I hadn't before. And those I missed, well, you'll just have to go to Dallas too.

I'm goin'!

Love to all artists everywhere--TE

[Michele Rushworth]

It was great to meet everyone and see those folks whom I had met before. Congrats to all the award winners!

As always, after these events, I am reminded how much I still need to learn and improve -- the bar just keeps getting higher, I think.

[Pamela Weisberg]

This was my first time attending the conference and I had a great time! I met alot of nice people, learned alot and am looking forward to attending next year.

[Chris Saper]

Ladies and Gentleen,

I just wanted you all to know that I am in the processof consolidating the many threads dealing with this year's PSA event in Reston. It made sense to me to consolidate those threads that were actually posted after the event. Please let me know what I may have missed.

Garth, would you like me to move the post-event threads from the "Jane & Iona" thread?