Click on a photo to see the award winner's full entry. Our prizes are made possible through The Prize Fund of the Cooperstown Art Association, as well as through the generosity of our membership. We always welcome additional donors and members!
Grand Prize
$500 "Triple Goddess" by Doug Whitfield
Innovation Prize
$300 "Shuffling Between Multiverses" by Donald Cooper
Dorothy Bostwick Campbell Memorial Prize
$200 "Ode To Joy" by Kate Timm
Symanarts Prize
$200 in supplies, for work on canvas "Sea of Flotsam" by Doug Whitfield
Margaret Bevier Wright Memorial Prize
$200 , for oil painting "Braque's Birds" by Terry Wise
Winsor & Newton Award
$150 , for watercolor "Johnny" by Elias Necol Melad
Elsie M. Birch Memorial Prize
$100 "Dancing Girls" by Paul Marcellino
Award of Merit
$100 "I Have No Mondays" by Shelley Feinerman
Award of Merit
$100 "Charlie Bulldog" by David Zeggert
Juror Citation
"Garden Party" by Roxa Smith
The Walter J. And Anna H. Burchan Memorial Prize
$350 "Carter Stanton, Otsego County Fair 2019" by Wesley Bernard
Rev. Canon George F. French Memorial Prize
$200 , for realistic photography "Protecting The Dunes" by Edmond Blake
Henry S.F. Cooper Memorial Prize
$200 , for sculpture "Who Wears The Mask" by Marcie Schwartzman
Frank Proctor Whiting Memorial Prize
$200 "Underwater" by Linda Suskind-Kosmer
Deborah Geurtze Award
$150 , for printmaking "Dave's Orchid Triptych" by Ann Kiehm
The Canson Excellence in Arts Award
$150 , for watercolor "Some Cups & Polka Dots" by Lana Privitera
Thomas Goodyear Memorial Prize
$100 , for humorous work "A Distant Ronald" by Les Schmidt
In order to completely preserve the objective integrity of its Annual National Art Exhibition, the Board of Directors of the Cooperstown Art Association has formulated the following policy:
Members of the Board of Directors are eligible to submit works of art to the exhibition subject to the conditions listed in the prospectus. In addition, should a Board Member's work be selected to receive an award by our Juror, they will forego any cash prize associated with the award.