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Castle Gallery, in Fort Wayne, IN is hosting our 
NOAPS BEST OF AMERICA 2017 

         NOAPS members 

       GOT RECOGNIZED!

Show dates OCT 20 thru NOV 11

$25,000 in cash prizes and merchandise awards

have been awarded to our talented artists on opening night

 

A BIG THANKS to all our fabulous sponsors for making this possible.

 Congratulations!

Marc Chatov

Best of Show

Braids

 

The Top 18 awards are Master Qualifier Awards in the Best of America 2017

Excellence and Merit Awards are not Master Qualifiers.

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Built in 1905 as a wedding present for B. Paul Mossman and his bride, the Castle is of the Richardsonian Romanesque style. Masons gathered granite boulders from fields hundreds of miles away to be used in the construction of this magnificent home which is on the National Register of Historic Places.

In 1949 Mossman gave the home to the city to become the municipal art museum. In 1983, the museum moved downtown and the castle was restored for residential use. More than a thousand gallons of stripping solution, hundreds of dental tools and hours of time were involved in returning the original cherry, oak, maple, walnut and mahogany to its present state.

Jody Hemphill Smith and Mark Paul Smith re-established the Castle as an art gallery in 1995. Since then it has featured artists from around the world.

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questions
Please email to Membership@NOAPS.org
LINK TO PROSPECTUS - http://www.juriedartservices.com/index.php?content=event_info&event_id=1247

The National Oil & Acrylic Painter’s Society

 

SEE OUR PREVIOUS “BEST OF AMERICA” EXHIBITS

CLICK HERE

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award winners

and accepted artists

Best Still life

SMALL TITLE

best technique and handling

best landscape

Best Realism

best impressionism

best use

of values 

award of excellence

award of merit

artistic excellence

best narrative

Fort Wayne Museum of Art purchase award

best acrylic

best figure

most original

best by master-signature

best oil

best composition

best light & color

award of excellence

award of excellence

award of excellence

award of merit

award of merit

artistic excellence

award of merit

award of merit

award of merit

best of show

award of merit

award of excellence

3rd place

2nd place

award of excellence

Click HERE to see a list of the award winners and the sponsors that made it all possible!

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