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Winners Announced for 2020 Focus on the Boro Photo Contest JUDGES FOR THE 2020 Focus on the Boro community photography project have announced adult and youth winners in nine different categories. Participating photographers submitted images in categories including people, landscape, still life, animals, flora, architecture, sports/action, abstract/ special effects and Murfreesboro. Focus on the Boro awarded separate honors in each category for youth (17 and younger) and adults. Although the 2020 contest and art display was an online-only endeavor, the Focus on the Boro team says it aims to hold another exhibit at Murfreesboro City Hall in 2021.
GALE STONER Best in Show “This Could Leave a Mark” (top left) MIKE BARBIERI Best in Show Runner-up “Orient on a Leather Strap” (middle row left) GLADYS TACKETT Community Choice Award—“Summer Colors” (middle row right) YOUTH WINNERS: KEEGAN DIETZ Best in Show—“The Cat” (bottom left) BRADON DAVILA Best in Show Runner-up “Stand Your Ground” (bottom middle) ELLA NEWBERG Community Choice Award—“Dreaming by the Stream” (bottom right)
For more information about the Focus on the Boro contest and exhibit and photography in Murfreesboro, email photographyconnectmboro@gmail.com.
MTSU Professors Art Show at City Hall Rotunda Celebrates Women’s Suffrage MTSU ART PROFESSORS Erin Anfinson, Kathleen O’Connell, Kimberly Dummons, Nicole Foran and Sisavanh Phouthavong will be featured at the Rotunda of Murfreesboro City Hall from July 28 through Sept. 10. Aug. 18, 2020, marks the 100-year anniversary of the passage of a woman’s right to vote. The City of Murfreesboro is hosting these five prominent female artists in celebration of the historic anniversary. The Rotunda is open to the public from 9 a.m.–5 p.m. Monday through Friday and is located at 111 W. Vine St., Murfreesboro. The artists will be in the Rotunda from 6–8 p.m. during the Boro Art Crawl on Aug. 14 to greet the public and talk about their art on display. For more information on this and other art exhibits at Murfreesboro City Hall, contact Deb Hunter at 615-801-2606 or dhunter@murfreesborotn.gov. 20 * JULY 2020 * BOROPULSE.COM
“Vestiges (Silphium Laciniatum)” encaustic and paper on board by Erin Anfinson “Harvest Doorway” monotype collage by Kimberly Dummons
