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  Alison Thomas February 24, 2010 at 9:01am

  Actually the Reston, VA show did do it that way. The award winners were announced before the show.
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  Barry Bernstein February 22, 2010 at 6:20pm

  I'll be posting a positive review sometime this week.
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  Connie Mettler February 22, 2010 at 2:21pm

  Here is another article about the Naples show with more information about Judy Wood and the event: http://www.naplesnews.com/news/2010/feb/20/art-sales-were-strong-hi...
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  Barry Bernstein February 22, 2010 at 9:19am

  After the judge made her requisite nanosecond in my booth putting the sticker on my sign, I cracked that the judges should be required to spend at least 15 seconds in the booth, even if they stared off into space. The judge turned to me and said they had judged the show by slides and that they had spent many hours looking at the digital images. My thought was why go through the act of pretending to judge the show? They could have just handed out the awards at the beginning of the event. Hey, they could have given out the awards with the check-in packets.
  
  I don't want this to sound like sour grapes. The winners were very good. I didn't see them all, but, the two that stood out to me were Greg Barnes 2D work and Scott Amrheim's glass. Both are outstanding artists.
  
  Shows have the right to judge any way they want. Gasparilla, and other shows pick pieces and then judge from the pieces, always in a room without proper lighting. If a show chose to do it that way, I wish they would at least view the work in a gallery setting with full spectrum lighting. My preferred way of judging is for the judges to spend a minute or two in each booth viewing the entire presentation. I don't see how a judge can come to a proper conclusion based on 1 piece or digital images. But, that's just my opinion.
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  geri a. wegner February 21, 2010 at 10:21am

  Wow, her work is exquisite although most of it did seem to be made of beads and she says she is a bead artist.
  
  Hope it was a good festival. The weather should have been gorgeous and it is definitely the tourist season around here. Hopefully Nels and others will let us know.