Tulsa artist Mark Lewis has won the top prize at the Arkansas Arts Center's 57th annual Delta Exhibition.
The Grand Award, which carries a $2,500 prize, was announced Thursday evening at a members-only reception at the center. Lewis' work was selected by the exhibition's juror, acclaimed Arkansas watercolorist George Dombek.
Lewis' work, a graphite and paper collage titled Under the Oak (Woodward Park), also won the museum's Contemporaries' Delta Award.
Lewis previously won a Delta Award, one of the exhibition's two runners-up prizes, in 2013 for Peoria Avenue #7, also a graphite and paper collage.
Winners of this year's Delta Awards are Neal Harrington of Russellville for his woodcut Feather Signal and Lisa Krannichfeld of Little Rock for Shirt (in gold) dressed series, a watercolor, acrylic, ink, paper collage and resin portrait. Krannichfeld and Harrington each won a $750 prize.
"Walking around that show I'm very humbled because I see many more pieces I consider more deserving than mine, but it's encouraging," said Harrington, an art professor at Arkansas Tech University in Russellville. "I work at it."
Harrington -- who also received an honorable mention for his work from the museum's Contemporaries, an Arts Center auxiliary membership group -- was a Delta Award winner in 2013 for the woodcut Snake Shaker's Shack.
Honorable mentions chosen by Dombek were Robyn Horn, Little Rock, for a carved maple burl sculpture Sideways; Aaron Calvert, Arkadelphia, for Giving Figure, a stoneware clay underglaze and ceramic gold enamel sculpture; and John Salvest, Jonesboro, for Cage A, a circular sculpture made of used wooden crutches and hardware.
Also receiving honorable mentions were Michael Preble, Hot Springs, for an inkjet print and photograph on paper titled Unintended Consequences; David Underwood, Jefferson City, Tenn., for Abandoned Schoolhouse, an acrylic ink graphite and gelatin silver photograph on paper; and Laura Terry, West Fork, for Ozarks Landscape, Late Summer, a mixed media on paper with hand stitching.
Dombek selected the exhibition's 72 works by 68 artists who were born or reside in Arkansas and the surrounding states from a total of 882 works by 380 artists submitted for consideration. Of the 68 artists chosen by Dombek, 48 are from Arkansas.
The exhibition continues through Sept. 20 at the Arkansas Arts Center, Ninth and Commerce streets, Little Rock. More information is available at arkansasartscenter.org or by calling (501) 372-4000.
Information for this article was contributed by Bobby Ampezzan of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette.
Metro on 07/10/2015