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2010 pleinAir painter Frank Visco drove 3 hours to paint +win 1st place, 2010: $250.

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2011 Plein Air Art works will be uploaded soon, and will now be displayed for sale @ the Quadrant Coffee House, (no. 3rd st in historic Easton) this week! Check out the plein air virtual gallery on our facebook page.

$500.- in prizes!! Back by popular demand! The 15th annual Riverside Festival of the Arts is proud to announce another exciting Plein Air Painting Contest, sponsored by Shaughnessy Law offices.
Perhaps you are now wondering, what IS Plein Air Painting? It is essentially just painting outdoors - check here for more detail.

18" square canvases for plein air artist entrants; the fee to enter is a mere $10.- Not necessarily JUST painting - mixed media is ok too.

Thank you plein air painters for participating! and thanks to our esteemed art Judges ...very tough decision! Accomplished local artist Danny Moyer, Easton's Artist-Ambassador and metal sculpter extraordinaire Mr Karl Stirner, and NYU art professor Dr Barnaby Ruhe.
2011 judges deliberated for 45 minutes, at the delaware river 'plein air art gallery'...
Cash prize of $250, first place went to Elizabeth Johnson. Second place, $150 went to Kim Robertson, and $100 for 3rd place went to Tim Halpin of Edison NJ.

If you'd like to sponsor the 3rd annual Plein Air Art contest in 2012, or wich to purchase one of the paintings let us know!

Artists that enter the 2nd annual Riverside Festival of the Arts Plein Air ArtContest agree to allow the Riverside Festival of the Arts to use their painting image in future promotions for the festival. Artist will own their artwork and can keep their finished canvases... Plein Air Painting contest artists may show their finished work at the Plein Air Art booth for sale if they choose. We are working on doing a gallery show for these, if there is enough interest from the Plein Air artists.

The Riverside Festival of the Arts is under the non-profit umbrella organization of ACE - the artists' community of Easton.
ACE is a federally recognized non-profit, organization described in Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.