{"id":47379,"date":"2024-02-29T15:29:27","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:29:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=47379"},"modified":"2024-02-29T15:29:27","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T15:29:27","slug":"paxton-gives-peoples-choice-award-to-two-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2024\/02\/29\/paxton-gives-peoples-choice-award-to-two-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Paxton gives People&#039;s Choice Award to two artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><\/div>\n<p>PAXTON \u2014 Six Massasoit Art Guild members \u2014 Karen Farrell, Tom Gately, Maggie Hart, Mary Hollingsworth, Deborah Roberts Kirk and Richard Kirk \u2014 displayed three paintings each in the Paxton Council on Aging art gallery for more than two months. Visitors were encouraged to select the painting they felt should receive the 2024 People\u2019s Choice Award. Voting continued throughout the entire display period.<\/p>\n<p>The winning selection proved to be a tie between <em>Jeanne\u2019s Attic<\/em> by Mary Hollingsworth and <em>Island Refuge<\/em> by Deborah Roberts Kirk.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_47380\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47380\" style=\"width: 212px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-47380\" src=\"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2024\/02\/02-27-01-394389_1-212x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"212\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2024\/02\/02-27-01-394389_1-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2024\/02\/02-27-01-394389_1-8x12.jpg 8w, https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2024\/02\/02-27-01-394389_1.jpg 344w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 212px) 100vw, 212px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47380\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jeanne&#8217;s Attic by Mary Hollingsworth Photo Credit: Courtesy photo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Comments left by voters for all the artists included \u201ca masterful use of oils and color,\u201d \u201cthe impressionistic feel of the lake,\u201d \u201cgreat show\u201d and gratitude for beautifying the Paxton Senior Center. The Paxton COA is very grateful for the colorful exhibit created by these talented artists and hopes to make the People&#8217;s Choice display an annual event.<\/p>\n<p>The next art show to be exhibited in Paxton will be held from the end of February to the end of April, and consists of a mixed media display by Paxton residents.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to view the gallery from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Friday. Artists wishing to participate should call the Paxton COA office at 508-756-2833 and leave their name and phone number.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PAXTON \u2014 Six Massasoit Art Guild members \u2014 Karen Farrell, Tom Gately, Maggie Hart, Mary Hollingsworth, Deborah Roberts Kirk and Richard Kirk \u2014 displayed three paintings each in the Paxton Council on Aging art gallery for more than two months. Visitors were encouraged to select the painting they felt should receive the 2024 People\u2019s Choice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lifestyle"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}