Local Artist Wins First Place in New Jersey Statewide Senior Citizen Art Show

SOMERVILLE, NJ – Local artist Leokadia Stanik from Branchburg recently won first place in the New Jersey State Senior Citizens Art Show for her print work “Unexpected Visitors” in the “Professional Print” category. Six other Somerset County artists received honorable mention. There were more than 250 pieces of artwork submitted to the annual state art show competition, which has been taking place since 1966. The exhibit will continue until October 26. To view the New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show exhibit, click here.

The artwork in the annual exhibit represents first-place winners selected from Senior Art Shows held earlier in the year from counties around New Jersey. All county art shows are juried by a professional.

To qualify for the New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show, artists must be at least 60 years of age and place first in the “Professional” or “Non-Professional” categories in their county’s senior art show. Artists used mediums, such as acrylics, crafts, digital art, mixed media, oils, pastels, prints, photography, sculpture, watercolor and works on paper. To see the Somerset County Senior Art Show, click here.

The following Somerset County residents received honorable mention at the state show:

“Professional” Category – Honorable Mention
Bridgewater resident Terry Mayfield, mixed media, “Guardian of the Freedom Flame;” Hillsborough resident Wayne R. Mathisen, acrylic painting, “Sentinel Sycamores;” Somerset resident Ed Caravana, digital, “Luminosity;” Warren resident Debbie Limoli, sculpture, “Something Sheepish.”

“Non-professional” Category – Honorable Mention
Somerset resident Nick DeGaetano, acrylic painting, “Baroness;” Warren resident Alison Diner, pastel, “Bar Harbor Sunrise.”

The New Jersey Senior Citizens Art Show exhibit will continue until Oct. 26 and can be viewed in person at Meadow Lakes or online through a virtual gallery.

The New Jersey Senior Citizen Art Show

The art show celebrates the vision, talent and creative power of the state’s older artists. The exhibit is a co-sponsored project of Mercer County’s Division of Culture and Heritage and the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, a partner agency of the National Endowment for the Arts.

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