Art Acquisitions Purchase Exhibition
62nd MEA/MAEA Art Acquisitions Purchase Awards Entries and Awards List
| TITLE | ARTIST NAME |
| Invasive Species on Harsens Island | Ranae Beyerlein |
| The Moment Everything Changed | Annie Howard |
| WHY? | Catherine Hetherington |
| Epistolary | Chris Giroux |
| Flame | Dan Slagter |
| “Grid: Global Risk Inform | John Albert Murphy |
| Pop HeART | Leeann McMichael |
| DSO Moods – Percussion | Marc Meyers |
| Stare Down | Marie Honicker |
| What I Meant to Say | Sally Giroux |
| Birch Grove | Victoria Hussey |
| Depali | Andrew Monroe |
| Fusion of Peace | Barbara Piper |
| Up and Down | Craig M. Linderman |
| Freedom Calling | Jacquelyn Dehring |
| Afternoon With Jacob | Jennifer Allore |
| Not Ready | Katlyn Almer |
| Mint | Keith Beale |
| Awakened Light | Kimberly A. Cairy |
| Ouch! | Sarah Crabtree |
| Peace and Love and Resistance | Sharon Fielder |
| Floral Reverie | Sarah Sundberg |
| Eyedentity | Andrew Monroe |
| Left and Right | Craig M. Linderman |
| An Afternoon with Seurat | Jim Banas |
| Open Me Up | Sarah Crabtree |
| Everybody Gets the Blues | Shari Russano |
| In the Midst | Sharon Fielder |
| Opportunity | Andrew Monroe |
| Undoing Digital Age | Annie Howard |
| Blue Piece/Blue Peace | Barbara Piper |
| Fluidity | Caroline Bell |
| GREENERY | Carolyn Steenland |
| Seeing Clearly Now | Catherine Hetherington |
| Welcome To My World | Catherine Hetherington |
| Sharpened and Shaped | Craig M. Linderman |
| INTERSECTIONALITY | Dan Slagter |
| Snuggle | Darla J Wolak |
| Sea Fans | Darla J Wolak |
| Tri-Color Bird | Gail Bohner |
| Proceed with Caw-tion | Jacquelyn Dehring |
| Fall Pod | Jeanine Ackerman Smith |
| United… in harmony | Jennifer Hannigan-Green |
| After the Swim Lesson | Jim Banas |
| “Pit fired Vessel” | John Albert Murphy |
| Rosie | Keith Beale |
| Sweet Gravy | Liz Costello |
| Stella | Lyndsey Vockel |
| Unheard | Marie Honicker |
| Translucent | Marie Honicker |
| Frosty Hayden Creek | Pat Miller Coy |
| Walking Down 40th Ave. | Pat Miller Coy |
| Somewhere We Lied | Sarah Crabtree |
| Living in the Void | Sharon Fielder |
| Brookie | Victoria Hussey |
| TITLE | ARTIST NAME |
| WHY? | Catherine Hetherington |
| Not Ready | Katlyn Almer |
| Left and Right | Craig M. Linderman |
| An Afternoon with Seurat | Jim Banas |
| In the Midst | Sharon Fielder |
| Fluidity | Caroline Bell |
| Snuggle | Darla J Wolak |
| Rosie | Keith Beale |
| Translucent | Marie Honicker |
| Frosty Hayden Creek | Pat Miller Coy |
| TITLE | ARTIST NAME |
| “Grid: Global Risk Inform | John Albert Murphy |
| Pop HeART | Leeann McMichael |
| What I Meant to Say | Sally Giroux |
| Birch Grove | Victoria Hussey |
| Floral Reverie | Sarah Sundberg |
| Welcome To My World | Catherine Hetherington |
| Tri-Color Bird | Gail Bohner |
| Sweet Gravy | Liz Costello |
| Unheard | Marie Honicker |
| Somewhere We Lied | Sarah Crabtree |
COMING SOON
COMING SOON
Fraser art teacher’s intriguing chalk drawing wins MEA Art Show
A compelling charcoal drawing by MEA member Andrew Monroe titled “Eyedentity,” selected as Best in Show at this year’s 62nd MEA/MAEA Art Acquisitions Purchase Exhibition, was inspired by a Social Security application, says the Fraser art teacher who won the top award.
The piece considers “assigned identities and what box we are put into, but also the connotations of those and how we’re viewed by others. Then there’s the personal identities within us that have nothing to do with what we look like or our name, skin color, religion — any of that.
“Our individual identity is more of who we are and who we decide to be versus what we’re told about who we are and who we’re assigned to be.”
The art exhibition, co-sponsored by MEA and the Michigan Art Education Association, recognized artists in several award categories including Best in Show, Honorable Mention, Juror’s Choice, and Purchase Awards. Read more about this year’s exhibition and Andrew Monroe’s winning entry.
View the 62nd MEA/MAEA Annual Art Show Entries
