47 East 200 North St. George, UT 84770 (435) 627-4525 museum@sgcity.org Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm 3rd Thursday 10am - 9pm Return to Current Exhibits Return to Past Exhibits Return to Future Exhibits PaintAmerica “Top100” Show available: July 21, 2007 through September 22, 2007 PaintAmerica, a national, non-profit organization to support and promote the visual arts, has announced that the St. George Art Museum will host the final stop of the 2006 PaintAmerica Mini Top100 Exhibition. The Exhibit will be shown at St. George Museum, 47 East 200 North in St. George, Utah from July 21st to September 22nd. The show features a selection of paintings from the 2006 PaintAmerica Top100 competition, one of the richest national artists’ competitions in prize money and purchase awards. Also included in the exhibit are selections from the “Mini Top50”, a special exhibit for paintings of 180 square inches or less. The Top100 show features the Grand Prize painting by Deborah Chapin entitled “Indian Summer”. It depicts the Chesapeake Bay area wetlands. The Mini Top50 Grand Prize winner is a painting by Illinois artist Nancy Fortunato titled “Near Otter Point - Acadia”, which depicts the crashing surf near Acadia National Park in Maine. These paintings were chosen from hundreds of entries submitted nationwide by a jury panel of three nationally recognized artists. In addition to Chapin and Fortunato’s work, a number of nationally known artists will be shown, including Frank LaLumia, Dino Paravano, Marion Hylton, Eva Van Rijn, Julie Houck, Deian Moore, Ray Brown and Joseph Yarnell. Many artists from the southwest are also included in the exhibit. PaintAmerica was established to support and promote the arts, with a goal of providing scholarship opportunities for young artists, as well as providing a premiere, national venue for local and regional artists to showcase their talent. “The Top100 Competition format not only rewards artists with great potential for sales of their work, it also encourages them with recognition and awareness through the traveling gallery exhibits,” stated Seel. “Showcasing the beauty and qualities of America as seen through the eyes of its artists is another benefit of the program.” For more information about Paint America go to http://sgartmuseum.org or www.PaintAmerica.org.