Awards
2018 Award Winners
Artists, art lovers, and school art programs all came away winners during the Driftless Area Art Festival held in mid-September, 2018, in Gays Mills, Wisconsin. The festival, temporarily relocated from Soldiers Grove due to flood damage in the park there, offered the crowds sunny weather, the works of 77 visual artists, great entertainment, and culinary […] Read the Full Post
2017 Award Winners
2017 Best of Show Award
Sponsored by J Gallery Interior Design Studio, La Crosse, WI
The 2017 Best of Show Award was won by Ray Bock, an accomplished woodworker who has lived for the last 25 years on a farm near Viroqua, Wisconsin. Ray studied design and photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he received a BA in Design in 1981. After ten years working in commercial photography, Ray left Chicago for his family farm, and focused on designing and making custom furniture. […] Read the Full Post
Sponsored by J Gallery Interior Design Studio, La Crosse, WI
The 2017 Best of Show Award was won by Ray Bock, an accomplished woodworker who has lived for the last 25 years on a farm near Viroqua, Wisconsin. Ray studied design and photography at the Illinois Institute of Technology where he received a BA in Design in 1981. After ten years working in commercial photography, Ray left Chicago for his family farm, and focused on designing and making custom furniture. […] Read the Full Post
2016 Award Winners
2016 Best of Show Award
Sponsored by J Gallery Interior Design Studio, La Crosse, WI
The 2016 Best of Show Award was won by Amy Arnold and Kelsey Sauber-Olds, a married team of artists who make their home and studio in Southwestern Wisconsin near Viroqua. Each focused on their own work until 2012, when Amy made her way into the wood shop and began carving. […] Read the Full Post
Sponsored by J Gallery Interior Design Studio, La Crosse, WI
The 2016 Best of Show Award was won by Amy Arnold and Kelsey Sauber-Olds, a married team of artists who make their home and studio in Southwestern Wisconsin near Viroqua. Each focused on their own work until 2012, when Amy made her way into the wood shop and began carving. […] Read the Full Post
2015 Award Winners
The 2015 Committee’s Choice Award The 2015 Committee’s Choice Award was won by Joseph Schwarte of Gays Mills, Wisconsin. Joe’s beautiful custom furniture can be found in homes from New York to Los Angeles and Minneapolis to Memphis, but mainly in Chicago and here near his home in the Driftless area of Wisconsin. His finely […] Read the Full Post
