The Artists Association of Nantucket last Thursday\u00a0announced the winning artists of its annual People\u2019s Choice exhibition, recently on view at the Cecelia Joyce & Seward Johnson Gallery on\u00a0Federal Street.<\/p>\n
Throughout the exhibition, visitors were invited to tour the gallery and vote for their favorite works of art. This year, 196 votes were cast, giving visitors the opportunity to select the works that resonated with them most.<\/p>\n
And the winners are:<\/p>\n
First Place:<\/p>\n
Yesterday\u2019s Island by Sherre Wilson-Liljegren \u2014 mixed media<\/p>\n
Second Place:<\/p>\n
Hays Overlook by Elle Foley \u2014 oil<\/p>\n
Third Place – a three-way tie:<\/p>\n
Madaket Evening Stroll by Bill Ranney \u2014 watercolorMain Street Christmas 2025 by Willy LeMay \u2014 photographyRainbow Reflection by Cathy Aguiar \u2014 oil<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are delighted by the enthusiastic response from our gallery visitors,\u201d said AAN Artistic Director Robert Frazier. \u201cCongratulations to all of the artists who participated, and especially to this year\u2019s winners. It\u2019s wonderful to see the work that captured the attention of our visitors and inspired them to cast their votes.\u201d<\/p>\n
AAN Executive Director Tracey Sears added, \u201cWith nearly 250 artist members, AAN is fortunate to represent such an extraordinary range of artistic talent. We are thrilled to celebrate this year\u2019s winners and all of the artists who contributed to the exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Artists Association of Nantucket last Thursday\u00a0announced the winning artists of its annual People\u2019s Choice exhibition, recently on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":629570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,251,2580,501,156,232952,111,43,139,69,232953,6182],"class_list":["post-629569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-breaking-news","tag-current-news","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-nantucket-current","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-people-of-nantucket","tag-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/629570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}