{"id":7111,"date":"2014-05-10T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-10T20:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/?p=7111"},"modified":"2014-05-12T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2014-05-12T20:43:54","slug":"and-the-winners-are","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/and-the-winners-are\/","title":{"rendered":"And the Winners Are"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At each conference, there are Polymer Clay Awards. At EuroSynergy 800 entries were juried to find the most significant 40 works for the IPCA Awards Exhibition. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bits-fuer-uns.de\/\">Georg Dinkel<\/a> took Best of Show with his\u00a0I-reliquaries and shrines, dedicated to Apple products like iPad and iPod. Best in 2D Art went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franabrams.com\/\">Fran Abrams<\/a> for her &#8220;Warmth of Fire&#8221; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mikaarts.com\/\">Laurie Mika<\/a> for her &#8220;Circle of Life&#8221;. Best of Jewelry was shared by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/clayninepolymerdesigns.co.uk\/\">Angela Garrod<\/a> for her &#8220;The Final Frontier&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/way-of-clay.com\/\">Cornelia Brockstedt<\/a> for her &#8220;City Skies&#8221;, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anniepennington.com\/2009-2011.html\">Annie Pennington<\/a> for two of her pieces &#8220;Phagocytosis Brooch&#8221; and &#8220;Tucson Squiggle Brooch&#8221;. Best in Sculpture was awarded to <a href=\"http:\/\/pennemobley.com\/\">Penne Mobley<\/a> for &#8220;Pensive Prince&#8221;, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.clairefairweather.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Claire Fairweather<\/a> for &#8220;Spring Trio&#8221;, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anlinadesigns.com\/blog\/?tag=joyce-cloutman\">Joyce Cloutman<\/a> for &#8220;Woodland Elf&#8221;. And pictured here, one of the Best in Functional Containers was this bowl by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilysquireslevine.com\/\">Emily Squires Levine<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/005_FC_01.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"7112\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/and-the-winners-are\/005_fc_01\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/005_FC_01.jpg?fit=750%2C498&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"750,498\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"005_FC_01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/005_FC_01.jpg?fit=430%2C286&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7112\" alt=\"005_FC_01\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/005_FC_01-480x318.jpg?resize=480%2C318\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/005_FC_01.jpg?resize=480%2C318&amp;ssl=1 480w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/005_FC_01.jpg?resize=150%2C99&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/005_FC_01.jpg?w=750&amp;ssl=1 750w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Emily, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nicheawards.com\/2014-finalists\/emily-squires-levine\/\">2014 Niche Award Finalist<\/a>, designs and creates one-of-a-kind accent tiles, bowls, and eggs. Using sophisticated color palettes, she fashions unique canes to form her exciting polymer clay art. Take a look at her use of pattern, shape, and color. How can you incorporate some of her distinctive juxtapositions into your own work? You can see more of her work on her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emilysquireslevine.com\/\">website<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/emily.s.levine.1\">Facebook<\/a> page.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you like this blog, support The Polymer Arts projects with a subscription or issue of The Polymer Arts magazine as well as supporting our advertising partners.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Blog2 -2014-02Feb-5\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Blog2-2014-02Feb-5.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0<img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"polymer clay overlapping cane\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/polymer-clay-overlapping-cane-150x150.jpg?resize=125%2C125\" width=\"125\" height=\"125\" \/><em>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/em><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"14P1 cover Fnl\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/daveonline.net\/thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/14P1-cover-Fnl-480x623.jpg?resize=133%2C173\" width=\"133\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At each conference, there are Polymer Clay Awards. At EuroSynergy 800 entries were juried to find the most significant 40 works for the IPCA Awards Exhibition. Georg Dinkel took Best of Show with his\u00a0I-reliquaries and shrines, dedicated to Apple products like iPad and iPod. Best in 2D Art went to Fran Abrams for her &#8220;Warmth&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7],"tags":[2785,974,2782,2784,1395,1519,1905,2781,2780,2778,2779,1107,1224,2783],"class_list":["post-7111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-inspirational-art","category-polymer-community-news","tag-2014-niche-award-finalist","tag-angela-garrod","tag-annie-pennington","tag-claire-fairweather","tag-cornelia-brockstedt","tag-emily-squires-levine","tag-eurosynergy","tag-fran-abrams","tag-georg-dinkel","tag-ipca-awards-exhibition-2014","tag-ipca-polymer-clay-awards","tag-joyce-cloutman","tag-laurie-mika","tag-penne-mobley"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2O0Lm-1QH","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thepolymerarts.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}