2025 PLEIN AIR ARTIST AWARDS
Awards are selected by professional artist & juror Vianna Szabo and presented in the following amounts:
ARTIST PROFESSIONAL
Best of Show $1000 – Logan Hudson, The Cappellini House
Second Award $750 – Pat Cheal, Wildwood Park
Third Award $500 – Mary Hertler Tallman, Morning Light at Wildwood
Honorable Mention #1 – Thomas Sorrell, Bridge over untroubled water
Honorable Mention #2 – Susan Ritter, Golden Hour at Olander Park
EMERGING ARTIST
Emerging Adult Artist First $200 – Mary Dice, The Phlipot House
Emerging Adult Artist Second $150 – Arianna Meisner, Where the River Flows
Emerging Adult Artist Third $100 – Bareesh Sanghavi, Castle on the Hill
Honorable Mention #1 – Rex Russell, Olander Love Affair
Honorable Mention #2 – Kerrie King, Callahan Admin Office
YOUTH 12+
Youth Artist First Award $75 Gift Card – Claire Rozek, First Date
Youth Artist Second Award $50 Gift Card – Eden Foster, Whimsical Spontaneity
Youth Artist Third Award $25 Gift Card – Kaylee Buschman, My Home
Honorable Mention #1 –Eden Foster, A piece of peace
Honorable Mention #2 Claire Rozek, Home
YOUTH ARTIST 11 AND UNDER
Youth Artist First Award $25 Gift Card – Genevive Foos, Water under the Bridges
Youth Artist Second Award $20 Gift Card – Theodore Kaser, Maplewood
Youth Artist Third Award $15 Gift Card – Harper Dice, Candy Store
Honorable Mention #1 – Harper Dice, Flower Power
Purchase Prize Awards
A purchase prize is a cash award and purchase of artwork by a Home or Business who would like their building painted by artists in Sylvania Plein Air. The property owner offers an amount of their choice as a cash prize in exchange for a painting and selects the painting they’d like to keep in exchange for the cash prize.

Artists Karen Dheel, Tracey Rodriguez and Beth Stewart paint the Municipal Building at the start of Plein Air 2025.