1st Place / Best of Show: Margaret Stermer-Cox – Circular Conversations
Congratulations to the WSO members whose paintings were chosen as award winners in the Spring 2026 Exhibition! The first through sixth place winners and Awards of Distinction were chosen by our juror, Stan Kurth. Attendees at the Awards Banquet voted for the People’s Choice.
- 1st Place / Best of Show: Margaret Stermer-Cox – Circular Conversations
- 2nd Place: Cindy Pitts – River of Fire
- 3rd Place: Judy Hoiness – Protect Oregon Wildlife and Habitat #20
- 4th Place: Chris Helton – Druantia, Forest Queen
- 5th Place: Tess Myers – Dappled
- 6th Place: Gabhor Utomo – Borrowed Shirt
- People’s Choice: Deborah Bruce – Sparkle and Shine
Awards of Distinction (in alphabetical order by the artist’s last name)
- Ruth Armitage – Ethics Deficit
- Leslie Cheney-Parr – Mt. Hood Romance
- René Eisenbart – Nested
- Susan Escobar – Beach Mosaic
- Harold Huestis – The 804
- Yvonne Knoll – Midnight Music from the Heart
- Daemion Lee – Willamette River Still Life
- Debbie Loyd – Nomad
- Elizabeth Schilling – The Struggle is Real 2
- Rebecca Sentgeorge – Surface as Subject
- Chris Stubbs – A Slice of San Marco
- Sandra Takabayashi – The Puffin Counter
- Ted Vaught – Van Vaught’s Sunflowers
- Liz Walker – Fledgling No. 5
Congratulations also to all 80 members who were juried into the Fall Exhibition!
- See the full list of 80 accepted paintings here.