I just got a call from Gallery RFD in the art capital of Swainsboro, Georgia where I submitted some images for their portraiture show last week.

At least one picture of mine was accepted, this one...



They also wanted to let me know that it was chosen as...

Best in Show!

So that is pretty amazingly awesome. The juror is Brandon Fortune, curator of painting and sculpture at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, so she's (yes, she) somebody I like to get my work in front of. And it's very flattering that she picked mine as the best. And I get $150. I think that's the first time since high school that I've gotten any money for "art."

I have to figure out how to tell my sister-in-law because I'm afraid it's not a very flattering picture of her. But it's Art so that's okay, right? And I'll explain the art-critical concept of the Object. I'm sure she'll understand. :-D

Show opens sometime next month.

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