Announcement of Winners!
01/09/00
Though the time allowed for this competition was shorter than I’d like to have in future competitions, I think it went very well. Our juried judged worked hard and so did the Internet community. We had well over 300 votes come in for the Community Choice Awards. You can read the comments of many of the voters under Voters’ Comments. Let’s just say, I won’t be surprised if some of you are contacted to find out if your entry is for sale. I know every one is anxious with anticipation to find out who won, so I’ll get to it.
Winners of the Juried Awards:
First Prize:
Entry 24 Coni Baldwin: Sterling silver tombstone bracelet with red stones, glass eye, dice. The tombstones represent the past, present, and the future. We all live, die, and gamble (with our lives). The clasp is the gates opening into the other world.
Second Prize:
Entry 78 Sabrina B. Marin: "Through the Millennia" - a chainmail 'bib choker' using exactly 2,000 rings. This piece's name is fitting, as references to maille have been found as early as 400bc and is still with us going into the 3rd millennium. Approximately 111 feet of sterling silver wire were used to make this piece.
Third Prize:
Entry 58 Micki Bleily: Lapis piece (1 1/2" X 1 3/4" ) has hundreds of sparkling pyrite stars shinning in the night sky representing time gone by. A restless sea washes against the cliff lined shore, representing energy and endless possibilities of the future. The pearl ladder represents humanity’s climb into the new millennium.
Fourth Prize:
Entry 40 Kim Thomas: "On The Wing": On the wing into the new millennium carrying a bright spark of hope that the world will be a more unified place the next thousand years. Patinated sterling silver, dichroic glass, faceted hessonite garnet. Brooch - forged and fabricated.
Fifth Prize:
Entry 65 Bill Mason: "Motion 2000" - it is done in chrysocolla, rutillated quartz and sterling silver. "Even though the motion of our species is not in a straight line, the intensity is always to move ahead, to renew and re-invigorate. I seek to capture this innate optimism and progress in Motion 2000."
Winners of the Community Choice Awards:
First Prize:
Entry 34 Alice Alper-Rein: Y2K presents an invitation to explore my creative energies which have been dormant while my children developed their creative energies. "Woman with a big heart" - made from hand cut and soldered sterling silver, copper, and brass. Ceramic tile, glass cabochon, and glass beads compliment my woman of the new millennium.
Second Prize:
Entry 39 Evelyn Villegas: "Happiness" is a combination of the exciting earth stone, unakite, and SunStone, the representative of the celestial energies of the New Millennium. The sunstone hearts are attached to the front of unakite cabochon, all securely wrapped in gold filled wire.
Third Prize:
Entry 67 Lisa Bonnice: This piece is crafted from sterling wire and rainbow moonstone -- both sacred to the Moon Goddess, according to folklore. The new millennium will bring a spiritual awakening to both men and women and an equal balance of power. Who better to give birth to that new world than the Goddess?
Fourth Prize:
Entry 36 Red Ventling: Millennium Harvest: Dutch spiral, peyote, bezel set aquarium/mosiac glass half marbles. Seed beads - 11, 14, 6; delicas; charlottes- 13; graduated goldstone beads; gold plated beads. This piece reflects my hopes and wishes for the Millennium, new beginnings, endless circle of life and the sun which gives our planet life.
Fifth Prize:
Entry 71 Teri Biren: Hiding beneath this innocent looking bug lurks the REAL Y2K Millennium Bug lapel pin. It is formed by hand (no molds used) and is made from Polymer Clay, beads for eyes, imitation gold leaf for wings, and telephone wire for its antennae. BZZZ...
I want to thank all those who participated. I hope you had fun. It was a good deal of work for me, but worth it. Our community has a lot of jewelry making diversity which was fun to share. We had beads, wire, glass, PMC, polymer clay, metal, lapidary - you name it and it was here. I will be leaving the gallery up all week which now has the names and emails posted of all those who participated.
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