Full Circle Arts Competition, “Reflections”.

Full Circle Arts announces the winners of its photography competition, “Reflections”.  The participants were asked to look for reflected images in the world around them.  They have come up with a wide variety of images, from far away and close to home.

The winning photographs are: first prize - Reflected Refractions, by Meredith Janssen, second prize – Downtown Underworld, by D.D. Weaver, third prize – Flashy, by John Koval. Honorable mentions were awarded to Reflections of Bergen, by Kathryn Regel, Ghost Gator, by Amanda Tyler McGuire, and Bruges - Venice of the North, also by Amanda Tyler McGuire.

Judge for the show was Jeffrey Wilhelm, who was a photographer in the Navy, then a photojournalist for the Charlotte Observer.  Now retired, he continues to photograph for himself and his friends.

The exhibition continues to April 8.

There is a separate show at Full Circle Arts, The Art of Drift and Rustic Wood Boxes, by Alan Darveaux.  The Morganton-based Darveaux is a wood worker who crafts elegant small boxes from local wood.  He has also created fantastical “dragons” from pieces of driftwood collected at a Devonian fossil bed on the Ohio River.  The Art of Drift and Rustic Wood Boxes continues to April 1.         

FCA is an artists’ cooperative located in downtown Hickory, 42-B Third Street NW.  More information about Full Circle Arts, classes, membership, or other upcoming events is available at 828-322-7545.  You may also write to Full Circle Arts, PO Box 3905, Hickory NC 28603, or email [email protected].  Please visit our website at www.fullcirclearts.org.