The Trawick Prize
Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards

The Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Awards is the visual art prize produced by the Bethesda Arts & Entertainment District. The third annual juried art competition will award $14,000 in prize monies to four selected artists. The first place winner will be awarded $10,000; second place will be honored with $2,000 and third place will be awarded $1,000. A “young” artist whose birth date is after April 8, 1975 will also be awarded a $1,000 prize sponsored by the Fraser Gallery.

The Trawick Prize winners were announced at a private reception on September 7, 2005 at Creative Partners Gallery. Jiha Moon of Annandale, VA was named the Best in Show winner of $10,000; Dean Kessmann of Washington, D.C. was awarded the Second Place prize of $2,000; Sonia Denise Tassin of Baltimore, MD was honored with the Third Place Prize of $1,000 and Michele Kong of Baltimore, MD was given the Young Artist Award of $1,000.

The jury members for the 2005 competition were Dr. Thom Collins, Executive Director of the Contemporary Museum in Baltimore, MD; Andrea Pollan, an independent curator, fine arts appraiser and art consultant and Olga Viso, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.