Rachel Allen
Art After School kids creating in our classroom.
May 2 – June 7, 2025
Big Congratulations to our 2025 award winners:
$500 Best in Show honoring Eveleth Green sponsored by Ginger and Grant Green
Anne Pflug – Room with a View
$400 Best Use of Color honoring Carol Hassen – Bob Fisher and Rich Layman and Lesley McGalliard
Beka Pruitt – Mineral Formations
$400 Mary Frances Dondelinger Award Sponsored by friends of THE Mary Frances
Jacqueline Trujillo – House that Built Me
$400 Fourwinds Award sponsored and selected by Richard Denner
Jacquelyn Galbraith – You Will Be Needing a Shield
$300 Peggy Schaake Award sponsored by Paul and Terri Schaake
Scott Mayberry – Divine Retribution
$250 Innovation Award- Abracadabra sponsored and selected by Scott and Robin Mayberry
Tom Saffle – Migwan
$250 Linda Johnson Memorial Award in Ceramics
Merrily Warren – Jan if She had Aged
$250 Ona C. Solberg Veteran’s Award
Bob Fisher – Sentinels
$200 2SLGBTQIA+ Award of Pride sponsored by Kittitas County Pride
Aidan Lancaster – Potential
$200 Kitty Moe Award for 3D sponsored by Sydney and Steve Moe
Tegan Meador – Nocturne
$200 Eldean Adams Award for 2D works sponsored by Sydney and Steve Moe
Alexandra Epstein-Solfield
$200 Sydney Moe Award for Best Use of Watercolor sponsored by Sydney and Steve Moe
Justin Gibbens – Overtone
$200 Gallery One Board Award
(Richard Denner) Jampa Dorje – Portrait of Jean Baptiste Clemence
$200 Award of Merit sponsored by Jim and Katie Gaudino
Becky Baker – The Root of it All
$150 Kay Crimp Award sponsored by Frank Crimp
Art Bumpkin – Market Champ
$100 CWU Alumni Award sponsored by past board president Marji Morgan
Justin Colt Beckman – Test Print
Gallery One Exhibition Award – selected by G1
Andrew Grove & David Lindsay
Exhibit Sponsors: Kelleher Motor Company
Main Gallery, Mezzanine & Hallway Gallery:
Kittitas County Open Show – Juried by Rachel Allen
We are pleased to again feature works of art by artists from Kittitas County in this annual all-media exhibition. This year’s juror, Rachel Allen, will distribute over $4000 in awards donated by local businesses and individuals, including a purchase award by the City of Ellensburg and a residency award at Gallery One!
About the juror:
Rachel C. Allen (Nimiipuu/Nez Perce) started as the MAC’s curator of modern and contemporary art last November. Allen has a master’s in arts and cultural management and museum studies from Michigan State University and completed a curatorial fellowship in the Native American Fellowship Program at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, Massachusetts where she also worked as their assistant curator. She has also worked in various roles at the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University and the Missoula Art Museum. She is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Delaware.
Eveleth Green Gallery:
Community School of the Arts Annual Student Show
The Art After School classes have been alive with creative energy again this year and they want to share all the great things they have created. This spring we are thrilled to feature works by our students in clay, mixed media, fiber and more!