Celebrating Our Artists: 2026 Winter Festival Art Show & Sale Award Winners

One of the most exciting moments of our 50th Annual Winter Festival Art Show & Sale is the celebration of our award winners. Each year, these awards recognize outstanding artistic achievement across disciplines, mediums, and creative exploration.

We are proud to honour the following artists:

Medium-Specific Excellence Awards

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Acrylic

George Glenn – Studio Night

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Oil Paint

Bridget Aitken – The Morning After

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Medium of Watercolour

Caron Dubnick – Dining Out

Art Placement Award for Accomplishments in the Discipline of Drawing

Skylar Fox – After the Arrows

Fibre, Craft & Material Awards

Prince Albert Spinners and Weavers Guild Fibre Award

Reanne Settee – The Weight of Waiting

The Creative Stitchers Guild Needlework Award

Kathleen Loewen – The Magnificent Duff

Lorraine Mathiason Memorial Ceramics Award

Sponsored by the Prince Albert Council for the Arts

Susan Shantz – slump iv

Frank Sudol Memorial Award

Sponsored by the Prince Albert Woodturners Guild

Marcel St. Amand – Quest

Landscape & Identity

KYLA Art Group Award for Landscape

June Jacobs – Interstitial

Mackenzie Lee Award for Expressing Canadian Identity Through Landscape Painting

Sponsored by The Men Who Paint

Rigmor Clarke – Spring Breakup in the Hills

Photography & Creative Exploration

Northern Image Photographers Club Award

All My Relations Creative Connections Studio Qrew: A Self-Portrait Series

Lemon Yellow Art Studio Award for Creative Exploration in Any Medium

Ron Cooley – Awakening

Hues Art Supply Store Award for Excellent Use of Hue

Janaya McCallum – Yootin

Memorial & Special Recognition Awards

Dana Wareing Popescul Memorial Award for Mixed Media (Mann)

Jillian Bogan – Pulse

Peggy & Sandy Kerr Memorial Award (Mann)

Ellie Desgranges – The Mental Fabric of a Bipolar Deer

John & Marjorie Hicks Memorial Award (Mann)

Atrayee Basu – Blue Chai

The Green Soup Emporium Award

Sponsored by The Green Soup Emporium

Marcy Friesen – Is This the Best We Can Do?

In Loving Colours: The Dawn Bear Memorial Award

Sponsored by On the Avenue Artisan’s Gallery

Orlanda Flett – Threads of Resilience

Juried Prizes

Third Place Prize

Sponsored by the Prince Albert Arts Board

Paula Cooley – AVIANTHROPE

Second Place Prize

Sponsored by the Prince Albert Council for the Arts

Brody Burns – Tipi Teachings

Best in Show / Mayor’s Prize

Sponsored by the City of Prince Albert and On the Avenue Artisan’s Gallery

Soheila Fallah – Pazhvāk

People’s Choice Award

Guy Rutter Memorial Award – People’s Choice Award

There is still time to have your say! Cast your vote for your favourite artwork during your visit to the gallery. The People’s Choice winner will be announced following the close of the exhibition on March 21st.

Congratulations to all of this year’s award recipients. Your talent, dedication, and creative courage continue to inspire our community and make this exhibition such a powerful celebration of the arts.

If you haven’t yet seen these incredible works in person, we invite you to visit the Mann Art Gallery before March 21, 2026 and experience them for yourself.