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Eighth Biennial IAPS Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 28-31, 2009

 

 

Recipients of The Urania, a unique International Association of Pastel Societies service award, gather around out going IAPS President Urania Christy Tarbet and incoming IAPS President, Maggie Price, at the closing banquet and awards ceremony for the Eighth Biennial IAPS Convention, Albuquerque, New Mexico, May 28-31, 2009.

Left to right: Alexandrine Bartlett, PSA; Duane Wakeham, PSA; Brenda Mattson, PSA, IAPS Exhibition Chair; Alan Flattman, PSA; Urania Christy Tarbet, PSA, IAPS President Emeritus; Bob Heywood, IAPS Registration; Rae Smith, PSA, President PSA; Anne Hevener, Editor, The Pastel Journal; Jimmy Wright, PSA, Treasurer PSA; Bill Canright, APSA; Maggie Price, PSA, IAPS President; Susan Webster, IAPS Executive Director; Pat Suggs, PSA, IAPS Treasurer. Bottom row: Sandra Burshell, PSA; Mary Ann Broddrick, IAPS Master Circle Chair; Anne Heywood, PSA, IAPS Cover Competition Chair.

New members of the IAPS Master Circle proudly wear their gold medallions.
 
Left to right: Alexandrine Bartlett, PSA; Lucy Petrie, PSA; Brenda Mattson, PSA, IAPS Exhibition Chair; Christine Ivers, PSA, President Connecticut Pastel Society; Janet A. Cook, PSA, previous recipient; Claudia Seymour, PSA; Judith Cutler, PSA; Terry Smith, PSA; Alan Flattmann, PSA, President Degas Pastel Society, previous recipient and award presenter.

 

The Master IAPS Circle was created to honor those artists whose work has been accepted and/or given awards in a specific number of IAPS Exhibitions and IAPS Convention Catalogue Cover Contests.

IAPS Master Circle Medalist accepts “The Urania”

 
Left to right: IAPS Master Circle medalist, Alexandrine Bartlett, PSA, accepted the "Urania" on behalf of her husband, Chuck Statham. F+W Media Publisher, Jamie Markle, congratulates The Pastel Journal Editor, Anne Hevener, for receiving "The Urania."

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