{"id":5808,"date":"2014-02-02T09:08:40","date_gmt":"2014-02-01T22:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2014-02-02T09:08:40","modified_gmt":"2014-02-01T22:08:40","slug":"refined-viii-makers-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/?p=5808","title":{"rendered":"Refined VIII: Makers Choice"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Dear Refined VIII: Maker\u2019s Choice contestant:<\/p>\n<p>I am happy to announce the winners for this year\u2019s competition, jurored by Cindi Strauss, curator at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, as follows:<\/p>\n<p>1st PLACE &#8211; HOLLAND HOUDEK, Hip Implant, Ms. Kleinjen, 2013<br \/>\n2nd PLACE &#8211; JESSICA ARMSTRONG, Connected Brooch #1, 2012<br \/>\n3rd PLACE &#8211; FRANK CONNET, Untitled #30, 2011<\/p>\n<p>3 HONORABLE MENTIONS<br \/>\nHILLAREY DEES, Sclerotinia Study Bracelet, 2012<br \/>\nMELISSA CAMERON, Cold Handle, 2012<br \/>\nROBERT THOMAS MULLEN, Montane Brooch, 2012<\/p>\n<p>I want to thank each and every one of you for participating. The exhibition is beautiful and features 37 artists from 15 states and Australia. We will be posting pictures from the opening reception on Facebook shortly. Follow us a SFA Art Galleries.<br \/>\nSincerely,<\/p>\n<p>John Handley, PhD<br \/>\nDirector, SFA Art Galleries<br \/>\nSchool of Art<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Well hello, yes, it was a bit of a surprise. The text above is direct from the CaFE mailout I received earlier this week. What can I say but&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re in the Texas you can <a title=\"SFASU press release\" href=\"http:\/\/www.sfasu.edu\/7206.asp\" target=\"_blank\">go check it out<\/a> from the 24the of January until the 29th of March at the <a title=\"What's on at the Florence Wilson Reavley gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.art.sfasu.edu\/reavley\" target=\"_blank\">Reavley Gallery<\/a> of The Cole Art Center @ The Old Opera House in downtown Nacogdoches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Refined is on at SFASU in Texas. Check it out if you&#8217;re in the area!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[113,111,107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-competitions","category-exhibition","category-jewellery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5808"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5811,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5808\/revisions\/5811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.melissacameron.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}