Current Exhibit
Lake Country Pastel Society – 2025 Judged Exhibit
July 19, 2025 to August 23, 2025
Hosted by: Frameworks Art Gallery – Highland Park, St. Paul
Mandy Madsen owns a framing business in St. Paul, but she also uses the space for exhibiting many fine artists. This year she has agreed to allow Lake Country Pastel Society to exhibit there this coming summer. This show will be our judged show for 2025.
Show information will be publicized through the local news outlets, their own email list and Mandy will print and distribute over 6,000 postcards promoting our exhibit.
Entrants, their family members, and friends are strongly encouraged to attend the reception on Saturday, July 26 from 6:00-8:00 pm. Fruit and Vegetable appetizers will be available, along with soft drinks and wine. Click here to download the PDF version of the exhibit application form.
Past Exhibits
LCPS 2024 JUDGED EXHIBITION "TOUCH OF COLOR"
ON DISPLAY THROUGH JULY 26, 2024
WHITE BEAR CENTER FOR THE ARTS in White Bear Lake, MN.
We had a wonderful turnout for our Opening Reception and Awards Ceremony on June 20th. Judge Lisa Fertig presented the following awards:
1st Prize $150 - Kathe Drake - Wolf Hat
2nd Prize $100 - Laura Irwin Schack - Superior Vision
3rd Prize $75 - Wendy Peterson - Australian Banyon
Pastel Society Award $100 - Lisa Stauffer - Enter the Garden
Outdoor Painters Society Award $100 - Connie Ludwig - My Space
Award of Merit $50 - Patricia Duncan - Our Sacred Earth
Award of Merit $50 - Becky Jokela - Moonlight
Honorable Mention $30 - Carol Rowley - Pink Path
Honorable Mention $30 - Karen Stombaugh - Transcendence
Fred Sommers Award - $100 - Wendy Peterson for her presented work
$25 Gift Card - People's Choice Award - Carl Zartner - Special Delivery
You can view all entered pieces on the White Bear Center for the Arts website at https://whitebeararts.org/touch-of-color/
Lake Country Pastel Society 2023 Judged Exhibit
First Presbyterian Church - 535 20th Ave. N South St. Paul
AWARDS
First Place: Connie Ludwig, “Fairy in the Prairie Flowers”
Second Place: Wendy Peterson, “Charlie”
Third Place: Lisa Stauffer, “Como Park Lily”
Award of Merit: Karen Berning, “Summertime”
Award of Merit: Kathe Drake, “Rare Beauty”
Honorable Mention: Carol Pruchnofski, “Reflections of Fall”
Honorable Mention: Michelle Wegler, “Maple Point Island”
Pastel Society of America Award: Carl Nelson, “Rock Solid”
Outdoor Painters Society Award: Joanne Meierhofer Carmody “Boundary Waters Winter”
Fred Sommers Award: Lisa Stauffer, for her body of work.
Lake Country Pastel Society 2022 Judged Exhibit
The annual LCPS Judged Exhibit took place at Zeller Studio in Hopkins the months of August and September.
21 artists had 46 paintings on display in this exhibition.
The prize winners were:First:
Dianna Shandorf for World Unto Itself
Second:
Carol Pruchnofski for Morning Hunt
Third:
Wendy Peterson for Redwoods and River
Awards of Merit:
Christine Tierney for Mesmerized
Kathe Drake for Exhuberance
Honorable Mentions:
Art Weeks for Abiquiu Reservoir, NM
Lisa Stauffer for Alley Angles
Outdoor Painters of MN Award:
Pat Duncan for Nature Takes the Credit
Pastel Society of America Award:
Frederick Somers for Held in Golden Light
Frederick D. Somers Award:
Christine Tierney for Clean Up Time
Lake Country Pastel Society 2021 Judged Exhibit
Click on the above image to download it in PDF postcard form.
A PDF of the entire exhibit can be downloaded from
this link.
Immersed
by Linda Ricklefs Baudry
22" x 20"
Transition
by Karen M. Berning
15" x 18"
Minnesota River from "The Landing"
by Nancy Dahlof
17" x 21"
Abandon
by Stephanie Danek
20" x 16"
A Season of Transition
by Patricia Duncan
17.5" x 21.5"
Minnesota River Valley
by Susan L. Estill
13" x 18"
December Grass
by Becky Jokela
22" x 26"
Chickadee
by Carolyn Kalter
13" x 13"
Invitation
by Connie Ludwig
20" x 26"
Dusk Over Mesa Verde
by Wendy Peterson
17" x 19"
Fall Harvester
by Carol Nelson Pruchnofski
23.5" x 14.5"
Seven Falls Warming
by Frederick D. Somers
17.5" x 23.5"
Freshly Picked
by Lisa Stauffer
11" x 13"
Into the Woods
by Christine Tierney
22" x 18"
Girls of Summer
by Susan Warner
21" x 27"
Lake Country Pastel Society “Winter Interlude” Show at the Paradise Center for the Arts
February 17, 2020 — March 28, 2020
Paradise Center for the Arts updated pickup information:
Pickup of artwork will be Monday June 8, 9am-noon and Tuesday June 9, 10am-5pm.
321 Central Avenue North; Faribault, MN 55021
An email will be mailed to all show participants listing contact information for exhibitors. Please make use of these contacts if you would like to help/or find someone to pickup your artwork.
Judge Rick Kokenash explained his process for judging the show:
First he stood back and looked at each piece from a distance to see which ones drew his eye. After that he made successive passes moving in closer and closer. His final pass was up close looking at fine strokes and mastery of the medium. He also looked at presentation — how each painting was framed and whether it complimented the art. He commented on matted and non matted works and pointed out examples of ones which worked well.
Award Winners for the 2020 Winter Interlude Show
First Place — “A Moment Worth Waiting For”
by Fred Somers
Pastel Society of America Award — “Siesta with Sorolla”
by Lisa Stauffer
2nd Place — "After the Storm”
by Carol Pruchnofski
3rd Place — “Waiting My Turn”
by Pat Duncan
Award of Merit — “Amaryllis”
by Cynthia Kath
Award of Merit — “Winter at the Summerplace”
by Becky Jokela
Honorable Mention — “Mississippi River Bank”
by Connie Ludwig
Honorable Mention — “Last Light”
by Christine Tierney
At the 2020 Winter Interlude Show
