Our opening night of ‘Our Amazing Animal Friends’ exhibition at the Box Hill Community Arts Centre was a great success. We had 48 entries in two categories: realist works and contemporary works. First, second, third and fourth prizes for each category, and six highly commended awards were given with a special President's Award for two outstanding junior artists. Whitehorse Arts Association were proud to donate $500.00 to the RSPCA. A cheque was presented to RSPCA representatives Penny Coulson and Rubin Itman and we placed RSPCA donation boxes at the exhibition. City of Whitehorse Mayor Cr. Bill Bennett opened the show, and we were very pleased to see Cr. Blair Barker dog lover and Cr. Raelene Carr enjoying the show. Thank you to Whitehorse Council for a grant for the venue, and thank you to the staff at Box hill Community Arts Centre for their help and support for the show.

A big thank you to Dot and Colin Browne for a massive amount of work organizing entries, catering for the opening night etc. Thank you also to Colin and Ailex Foster, Laurie Dusting, Jane Taylor. All the committee put in such a lot of work to make this show a success. Rosemary Price, Tomomi Gillett, Christine Hawkins, Karina Grift and all those who helped with hanging, thank you. WAA gave out over $900.00 in prizes and awards at this show.

Thank you to our judge Brenda Innes, secretary of the Watercolour Society of Victoria and AGRA life member for a splendid job of judging.  Thank you also to our prize sponsors The Art Shop.com and Frame City.

Check out Whitehorse Art Association on Facebook, there are pictures of the winning artworks and Karina Grift and her son have made an 11 sec video run through of the show. Thank you Karina and thank you to all the artists who have entered this show.

Exhibition Gallery: All the Fabulous Works Entered in the Exhibition

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