BY PATRICIA BROWN –
Again this year, several area painters and photographers received awards at the Cossatot Arts & Crafts
Show held at King, Arkansas, May 3-4, 2014. The categories and winners are listed below.

Painting
Genre 1st Place Jim Brace “Stormy Lake”
Western Art 1st Place Gilda Meyers “Cuttin’ a Good One”
3rd Place Susan Sebren “Terlinqua Ruins”
Photography
Best of Show Michael Leonard “Union School House”
Special Award Pets Ann Glenn “Shorty”
Judges Award of Excellence William Rainey “Skull Crusher”
Cossatot Country
1st Place Betty Acheson “Gilliam Lake”
2nd Place Jo Eldridge “Cossatot Falls”
3rd Place Lowell Thomas “KCS Coming ‘Round the Bend”
Landscape
1st Place Deborah Shea “Peeking Through the Clouds”
Hon Men William Rainey “Washing Machine”
Floral
1st Place Lowell Thomas “Gaillardia Flowers”
Animals
1st Place Patricia Trulock “Quit Pushin’”
2nd Place Darryl Steele “Noah”
3rd Place Jolean Thomas “Watchful Heron”
Hon Men Jo Eldridge “Bobcat”
General
2nd Place Betty Acheson “Cold Steel”
Purchase Awards
William Rainey: “Washing Machine”, “Spring’s Promise of Life”, “Church in the Wildwood”, “Cossatot in the Fall”
Betty Acheson: “Crooked Creek”
About Author
Jeri Pearson
Jeri is the News Director for Pulse Multi-Media and Editor of The Polk County Pulse. She has 10 years of experience in community focused journalism and has won multiple press association awards.
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