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June 2009
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Overview Below are the featured prizes for the grand prize, second prize and third prize studio makeover winners

Grand Prize Winner - $8,800+ in prizes

	Dick Blick $2,000 Dick Blick Gift Certificate www.DickBlick.com

	Alliance of Professional Artists Free 1-year Membership ($79 value) The Alliance of Professional Artists is a national organization committed to supporting and educating art-driven individuals and groups, while serving as an advocate for the art community. All members of the APA have access to member benefits, including merchandise and product discounts, a subscription to Art Calendar, educational webinars, limited benefit medical plans, prescription drug discounts and much more. In addition to supporting the artist community, the APA serves as an education resource, by offering its members numerous tools to grow as artists. www.AllProArtists.org

	Artist's Advantage The WINDMILL® Studio 36 Easel - A NEW TYPE OF ARTIST TOOL ($1,079 Value) The WINDMILL® Easel easily positions your artwork by revolving it 360 degrees. Brings the artwork to the artist expanding the creative process and facilitating your most productive drawing, brush, or palette knife stroke. Creates an unobstructed painting surface INCLUDING CANVAS EDGES. Reduces the physical challenges of painting. Automatically adjusts to different size canvases. For all painting mediums. www.WindmillEasel.com

	Artograph Open Studio Work Table ($629.99 Value) At 38" high, comfortably work standing up or from a drafting stool. Two large shelves/trays offer more than enough space for tackling art, craft or drafting projects. Open Studio Taboret ($259.99 Value) Store brushes, pencils, paints, small sketch books, and more in the 18" x 18" shelves/trays. Ideal platform for projectors. www.Artograph.com

	Art Boards Art Storage System ($945 Value) Art Boards™ Art Storage System is for storing any size artwork. It is modular, expandable, adjustable and on wheels. Shelves, drawers, and walls, are ordered as needed to expand the art storage to any size. The adjustable shelves interlock into stainless steel supports; they are secure in their position and cannot slip or tip. The Art Storage System is mobile. Front and back is open to access art from both sides. Paintings slide in or out without restriction. www.art-boards.com/art_storage_system.htm

	Gamblin Artists Colors Gamblin Artists Colors Gift Pack ($700 Value) Gamblin Artists Colors is happy to provide an extensive collection of artist grade oil painting materials which will offer the winner access to a wide range of colors and techniques. In addition, Gamblin’s commitment to providing safer, more permanent oil painting materials means the winning artist can work in their studio with confidence. Included is a palette of 50 37ml tubes of artist grade oils, mediums, Gamsol OMS, Gamvar Picture Varnish and Gamblin Oil Painting Ground. www.GamblinColors.com

	Daler-Rowney $500 Daler-Rowney Gift Certificate. www.Daler-Rowney.com

	DaVinci Paint Co. $500 DaVinci Paint Co. Gift Certificate www.DaVinciPaints.com

	Ampersand Art Supply $500 Ampersand Art Supply Gift Certificate (Includes shipping) Win Ampersand’s BIG new panels! Ampersand’s BIG size panels are perfect for the painter who needs more space to express their big ideas. Choose from the Gessobord™ surface, an acrylic gesso ground that’s great for oils or acrylics and the Claybord™ surface, for mixed media, collage, acrylics, encaustics and more. Both surfaces feature a super sturdy 2” deep cradle that can be stained, painted or waxed providing a clean-edge presentation and support all in one. Ampersand’s panels are archival and made from FSC certified sustainable forest materials, a smart choice. Winner’s choice: Choose from Claybord™ or Gessobord™ or mix/match (2 cases total): 36”x36” = SRP: $109.99 each, 2 per case 30”x40” = SRP: $99.99 each, 2 per case 36”x48” = SRP: $129.99 each, 2 per case www.AmpersandArt.com

	Amsterdam Amsterdam Acrylic Expert Series Paints MSRP $346.85 18 x 150ml Amsterdam Acrylic Expert Series tubes of paint. Amsterdam Acrylic Expert Series paints are a rich collection of heavy body paints with the highest possible concentration of the purest pigments. Working with Amsterdam Expert Acrylic allows you to experiment endlessly. You can create your own reality and take it a step further each time. With limitless possibilities, your passion and talent can grow to their utmost potential! www.talens.com/english/

	Faber-Castell 60 ct. Polychromos Color Pencils Retro Box ($205.70 Value) Each pencil contains superior pigments of unsurpassed lightfastness (resistance to fading), which is rated on each pencil. Buttery smooth color laydown, easily blended and layered, no waxy build up. SV Bonding, to strengthen lead and prevent breakage. Thick 3.8mm leads. Water-resistant and smudge-proof. www.FaberCastell.com

	Artspan Artspan websites are elegantly designed and simple to use artist, photographer and artisan websites. Each has a Control Panel where the artists customize and control all aspects of their sites. Artists upload work, create galleries, post pages with any info they want and can also select colors and fonts. Visitors can go directly to your site or they can discover it with the Artspan.com search functions and directories. This is a complete website package. www.Artspan.com

	Chroma Atelier Interactive Professional Artists' Acrylic Starter Set (98.66 Value) Rethink Acrylics - Unlike traditional acrylics, Atelier Interactive Professional Artists’ Acrylics do not suddenly form a skin. Interactive changes the painting process, giving you plenty of time to blend and rework and giving you more creative freedom. The patent-pending formulation allows even touch-dry paint to be reworked and ragged-off to blend or reveal layers. Archival quality and lightfast, the intense colors dry to a satin-like finish without a plastic look or feel and minimal color shift. www.ChromaOnline.com

	Allworth Press A Selection of 10 Books ($222.05 Value) 1. Selling Art Without Galleries: Toward Making a Living From Your Art 2. The Business of Being an Artist 3. The Artist's Complete Health and Safety Guide 4. Guide to Getting Arts Grants 5. Fine Art Publicity: The Complete Guide for Artists, Galleries, and Museums 6. The Fine Artist's Career Guide 7. Business and Legal Forms for Fine Artists 8. Artist Communities: A Directory of Residences that Offer Time and Space for Creativity 9. Ethics and the Visual Arts 10. The Fine Artist's Guide to Marketing and Self-Promotion www.Allworth.com

	Digital Arts Studio $250 Digital Arts Studio Gift Certificate www.DigitalArtsStudio.net

	Festival Network Online (FNO) Two-year, Level 3 Membership ($178 value) Includes access to details on 20,000 events total and 10,000+ art events in North America. Details include contact & jury information, application & booth fees, deadlines, attendance and more. Level 3 allows you to create & export a personal event list. Plus, get a free link in the Festival Biz Directory and create your own site with a 30 photo gallery, video, blog, personal calendar & friends list. www.festivalnet.com

Second Prize Winner - $1000+ in prizes

	Dick Blick $500 Dick Blick Gift Certificate www.DickBlick.com

	Rembrandt Rembrandt Soft Pastels Deluxe Landscape 90 Stick Set MSRP $294.30 Rembrandt Soft Pastels are the world-wide most used soft pastels. They are known for a characteristic softness that enables excellent color release, with very high coloring power and brilliant tones. Proudly crafted in Holland of the purest pigments and the finest quality kaolin clay, Rembrandt Soft Pastels owe their high quality to Royal Talens’ close collaboration with professional artists and more than a century of experience. This Deluxe Set includes the optimal color selection to help you create the perfect landscape! www.talens.com/english/

	Daler-Rowney $250 Daler-Rowney Gift Certificate. www.Daler-Rowney.com

	Free 1-year Subscription to Art Calendar (Retail value of $55) Art Calendar is the industry's foremost business magazine for visual artists. Written by knowledgeable industry pros and successful working artists, Art Calendar offers artists practical business advice on subjects such as art marketing, art law, portfolio development, exhibition presentation, communication skills and sales techniques, as well as advanced technical applications of photography, computer and Web tools. It also offers the most extensive and recent listings of Calls to Artists, including galleries reviewing portfolios, juried competitions, grants, fellowships, festivals, publishing opportunities and residencies. Art Calendar enables professional artists to make a living doing what they love, providing them with fresh and innovative ideas, along with the all of the necessary tools to sell their work and further their careers. www.ArtCalendar.com

Third Prize Winner - $500+ in prizes

	Dick Blick $250 Dick Blick Gift Certificate www.DickBlick.com

	Daler-Rowney $100 Daler-Rowney Gift Certificate. www.Daler-Rowney.com

	Amsterdam Amsterdam Acrylic Standard Series Paints MSRP $99.65 7 x 250ml Amsterdam Standard Series tubes of paint 6 x 120ml Amsterdam Specialties Series tubes of paint 1 x 250ml Amsterdam Acrylic Heavy Gel Medium Amsterdam Acrylic Standard Series offers everything an acrylic painter needs. Proudly crafted in Holland, Amsterdam is an excellent quality acrylic paint with an enormous range of colors. Amsterdam Acrylics boast a high to very high level of lightfastness throughout the assortment, thanks to the use of pure and non-fading pigments. Also included in this prize are the Amsterdam Acrylic Specialties colors, which consist of very vibrant metallic and reflex (fluorescent) colors. http://www.talens.com/english/

	Free 1-year Subscription to Art Calendar (Retail value of $55) Art Calendar is the industry's foremost business magazine for visual artists. Written by knowledgeable industry pros and successful working artists, Art Calendar offers artists practical business advice on subjects such as art marketing, art law, portfolio development, exhibition presentation, communication skills and sales techniques, as well as advanced technical applications of photography, computer and Web tools. It also offers the most extensive and recent listings of Calls to Artists, including galleries reviewing portfolios, juried competitions, grants, fellowships, festivals, publishing opportunities and residencies. Art Calendar enables professional artists to make a living doing what they love, providing them with fresh and innovative ideas, along with the all of the necessary tools to sell their work and further their careers. www.ArtCalendar.com

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