Each year CPS holds its

Annual Member Show

Open to all members working in pastel. This year we hosted the
24th Annual Member Show
at Gallery 53 in Meriden, CT, from March 6 - March 27, 2010.

2010 CPS Member Show Award Winners


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or to view a slide show of the award winners


Diana DeSantis: In Pensive Mood
CPS Best in Show
#78 Dianna DeSantis: "In Pensive Mood"



CPS Award of Excellence
#6 Clayton Buchanan: "Playing at the Hole"



CPS Honor Award
#68 Deborah Crossman: "Whiteness"



CPS Honor Award
#41 Peter Seltzer: "Star Crossed 2"



CPS Honor Award
#100 Suzanne Siegel: "Yellow House, Full Moon"



CPS Award
#1 Shauna Shane: "Morning Run"



CPS Award
#101 Elizabeth Rhoades: "Bridging the Natchaug River"



CPS Award
#12 Marilyn Caissy: "From My Garden 2"



CPS Award
#24 Frank Federico: "Jazz in the Afternoon"



Pastel Society of America Award
#39 Carol T. Moore: "Approach to Triborough"



CPS Merit Award
#43 Maryanne Rupp: "Macs with Mandolin"



CPS Merit Award
#118 Gigi Horr Liverant: "Hartford Tunnel"



CPS Honorable Mention Award
#121 Joanne Agostinelli: "Deeply Cleft"



CPS Honorable Mention Award
#19 Rainie Crawford: "A Visual Fiction"



CPS Honorable Mention Award
#22 Jeanne Rosier Smith: "Almost Fourteen"



CPS Honorable Mention Award
#52 Peggy Traskos: "The Gulls"



Frank Federico Workshop Award
#116 Robert Kramer: "Market Stall, Aix en Provence"



Laurel Crest Pastel Palette Award
#112 Steven Linde: "Twilight Passing"



Guerilla Pochade Box Award
#119 Pamela Reese: "Nob Crook Brook, Redding"



Jerry's Artarama Nupastel Award
#13 Sherri Baxter: "Lanes Island"



Diane Townsend Pastel Award
#113 Pieter Lefferts: "Keeping Cool"



Wholesale Framing Gift Award
#95 Barbara S. Groff: "Fruit Cocktail"



Jerry's Artarama Rembrandt Pastels Award
#29 Linda Gotta: "Five Chickens"



Jerry's Artarama Rembrandt Pastels Award
#11 Sherry Marlowe: "Retired Work Horse"



A. I. Friedman Award
#62 Phyllis Balassone-West: "Sesa la luce"