25th Annual Outdoor Juried Art Festival

Nearly 60,000 people crowded into Mizner Park for the Boca Raton Museum of Art’s 25th Annual Outdoor Juried Art Festival presented by Jaguar on January 29 and 30, 2011. Additional supporters included WXEL, Sun Sentinel, AT& T The Real Yellow Pages, News Channel 5, Mizner Park, and the City of Boca Raton. The festival included works from nearly 250 new and established artists from across the U.S., with a diverse representation of styles and media. Ten artists were given special recognition and cash prizes for their works, with one Best In Show and nine Merit awards presented during the first day of the Festival. The show was juried by Chief Executive Officer of West Palm Beach’s Armory Art Center, Sandra B. Coombs, who awarded Best In Show to photographer, Mark MacKinnon, from Millbrook, New York. “The overall quality and skill level was exceptional and I was surprisingly delighted and impressed to discover such caliber in unexpected medias,” said Coombs. (Click on thumbnails to view larger photos)