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Sweet Pea Festival 2014 was a raging success! We love the participation in our all of our contests throughout the year and want to take this opportunity to acknowledge the winners of some of our weekend events.

Parade

Best in Show: Montana Ballet

Honorable Mention: Guinea Exchange

Best Use of Sweet Peas: Bozeman Veg Society

Honorable Mention: D.R.E.A.M.

Flower Show

Best in Show: Linda Lennon

Children’s Category:

1. Rose Kitchen
2. Ben Burke
3. Amelia Frisque

Young Adult Category:

1. Tesia Frisque
2. Lukas Pertzborn
3. Ross MacPherson

Adult Category:

1. Linda Lennon
2. Cathy Haggerty
3. Karl Keith

Perennial Category:

1. Sydney Heckel
2. Cathy Haggerty
3. Sandra Goetting

Creative Arrangement:

1. Lisa Arnot
2. Caitlin Lennon
3. Cathy Haggerty

Photo Category: Betsy Heckel

Juried Art Show

Grand Prize: Kara Fellows-Tripp   “Hotel Baxter”

Representational/Realistic Category:

1. Connie Lange – “Bird Nests”
2. Craig Spannring – “Should Have Seen Me in My Prime”
3. Judith K. McKee – “Fall Spectacle in the Tetons”

Honorable Mention: Marci Surratt – “Bison”

Non-Representational/3-D Category:

1. Shirley Robinett – “War Pony”
2. Kathy Burk – “Inkwell”
3. Nancy Lande – “Deposits of Faith”

Honorable Mention: Melissa Dawn – “Obsession”

Local artist, Kara Fellows-Tripp has submitted the winning design for the 2014 Sweet Pea poster contest. Kara was born in Bozeman and has attended the Sweet Pea Festival since she was a child. As a first-time entrant, she says she is thrilled to have won the $1000 prize and to take part in a Bozeman tradition. Last year Kara won the “Best in Show” award at the Sweet Pea Art Show for her painting titled “Indian Corn.”

Kara works in oils and often utilizes a palette knife to layer the paint. This technique is evident in the highly textural sweet peas in her poster.

“My poster concept started as a traditional still-life painting” she explains, “a mason jar filled with coral, white and violet sweet peas.”

“In the end, I selected a portion of the painting to create the final poster design.”

Kara’s home and studio are in downtown Bozeman. Her original oils can be seen and purchased at the Sweet Pea Festival Arts & Crafts Show this August and year round at The Artists’ Gallery in the Emerson Cultural Center. She can be reached through her website www.KaraTrippArtist.com.

Congratulations Kara!

Kara will be at the Merchandise Tent on Saturday, August 2 and Sunday, August 3 from 1-1:30pm to autograph your purchased poster.

Adult Winner

Congratulations to Anya Cornforth, our 2014 Adult T-shirt Contest winner! Anya is a senior at Bozeman High School and has been creating art since she was very young, favoring the medium of mechanical pencil. She tells me, “I love to look at an image and draw it and just put my own twist to it. I love to do as much detail as possible so I never actually draw the entire image – just a zoomed in portion.”

This perspective is exactly what she applied when creating this year’s winning design. Her hand-drawn design incorporates sweet pea flowers, with dots added to provide texture, all enclosed within a circle which Anya describes as “the frosting” that ties everything together to create a great finished product.

When not creating award-winning art, Anya loves to be social, spend time with friends, hike, read, listen to country music, swing dance, and go paintballing. After finishing school, Anya plans to pursue phlebotomy as her career.

Anya is a long time festival-goer who is excited for everything this year! She says she loves it all – from the events, to the environment, to the people. Look for Anya’s design on all our adult merchandise this year at our pre-sale outlets and at the Festival.

 

Children’s Winner

Congratulations also go to Grace Stoddart, a 3rd-grader at Morning Star Elementary, for winning the Children’s T-shirt Art contest! Grace was inspired to create her design by the Sweet Pea Festival posters which hang in her home. She wanted to draw a flower but says she couldn’t decide on a single color so she used lots of them instead.

Despite having a great eye for design, Grace’s passion lies in gymnastics. She’s on the competitive team at Lone Mountain and says her favorite parts of gymnastics are the uneven bars and doing flips. Grace also has a talent for music and has played the piano for six years. She enjoys music class in school, but adds, smiling, that her favorite subject is recess.

Grace is looking forward to the Sweet Pea Festival this year, especially the frozen chocolate bananas. She’s attended every year and loves to dance to the music acts. Grace is also looking forward to building crafts at the kids’ zone. Last year, she and her brother built a house for their cat, which sadly doesn’t attract its intended tenant as well as they had hoped it would.

Be sure to check out Grace’s design on all of our children’s merchandise and totebags at our pre-sale outlets and the Festival!

With the Festival comes many opportunities to win prizes at several of our events.  Listed below are the winners of the Art Show, the Parade, and the Flower Show. Congratulations to everyone who won a category and thank you to all who entered!

Art Show

Category	Place	Name	City
Best in Show	Grand Prize	Kara Fellows-Tripp	Bozeman
Representational	First	Spencer Simons	Belgrade
Representational	Second	Shirley Julian	Belgrade
Representational	Third	Peggy Ryan	Bozeman
Representational	Honorable Mention	Tara Aguilar	Bozeman
Representational	Honorable Mention	Pamela Moore	Bozeman
Non-Objective	First	Pookie Godyin	Bozeman
Non-Objective	Second	Nathan Hansard	Bozeman
Non-Objective	Third	Eileen Tenney	Bozeman
Non-Objective	Honorable Mention	Ann Wilbert	Bozeman
Non-Objective	Honorable Mention	Geri Ward	Bozeman

 

Parade

Best in Show: Museum of the Rockies – “Ms. Frizzle and the Magic Museum Bus”

Best Use of Sweet Peas: “Magical Master Gardener Tour” and “Magical Mystery Tour”

Honorable Mentions:

• Most Creative: Bozeman Deaconess Hospital – “Be Our Guest” and Bozeman High School Reunion, Class of 1963 – “50 Years Goes by Like Magic”
• Most Beautiful: Heart of the Valley “Fur-Ever Homes are Magic”
• Most Entertaining: Chix with Stix

Flower Show

Grand Prize: Linda Lennon

Adult Category:

• 1st Place: Linda Lennon
• 2nd Place: Mary Lassner
• 3rd Place: Camille Jackson

Young Adult Category:

• 1st Place: Colter Jorgenson
• 2nd Place: Lukus Pertzborn
• 3rd Place: Suzanna Smith

Child Category:

• 1st Place: Eliana Chandler
• 2nd Place: Tori Brandon
• 3rd Place: Max Burke

Perennial: Cathy Haggerty
Most Creative Arrangement: Linda Lennon
Youngest Grower: Eliana Chandler
Oldest Grower: Lloyd Reynolds
People’s Choice: Cathy Haggerty

Photo Contest:

• 1st Place: Gwendolyn Dodge
• 2nd Place: Mary Lassner
• 3rd Place: Laura Nadeau

 

We look forward to welcoming you to this year’s Sweet Pea Festival!  We hope everyone has a great time so please take a moment to review some guidelines that will assist us in making everyone’s experience an enjoyable one.

• Your admission wristband must be worn around your wrist and visible at times.  Sweet Pea is not responsible for lost or stolen bands.
• Pets/animals are not permitted at the Festival.
• Smoking and alcoholic beverages are not permitted at the Festival.
• If you have lawn chairs, please sit to the side or back of performance venues so people sitting on blankets may see too.
• By entering the Festival you grant permission for Sweet Pea to use photos or video with you in them to be used in future marketing (online and print).
• There is limited access for special needs due to the natural venue of the Festival.
• No solicitation is allowed.
• As a courtesy to artists and the audience, please keep noise and conversation to a minimum in performance areas and quiet your cell phones.
• Lost and Found (including children) is located at the Headquarters tent.