Grand Prize
Purchase Prize - $2,000.00 + PleinAir Magazine ad, value $750
Overall
1st place - $1,000.00 + PleinAir Magazine subscription
2nd place - $750.00
3rd place - $500.00
Artists Choice - $500.00 + PleinAir Magazine subscription
Field of Dreams
Painting captures the sense of place and time of the Field of Dreams.
1st place - $300.00 + Field of Dreams gift bag
2nd place - $200.00
Mississippi Overlook
View from a bluff top that includes some portion of the Mississippi.
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
RiverFront
View that captures being alongside the river.
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
Historic Dubuque
Painting featuring Dubuque’s historic architectural character. May focus on a building, a group of buildings, or a building features.
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
View highlighting Dubuque's industrial and transport heritage, including factory, railroad, barge, etc.
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
Working Dubuque
Arboretum/
Garden
Any scene painted in the Dubuque Arboretum or an area private or public garden. This could also feature a planter.
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
View featuring farmland, woodland, valley, meadow, creek, etc.
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
Rural Scene
Unique and creative viewpoint; a painting that makes the viewer see something differently or find interest in the mundane.
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
Double Take
Poetic
Elicits an emotional response in the viewer due to its atmosphere or mood. May be pastoral, spiritual, urban gritty, or humorous. This award presents an opportunity to recognize a “quality of beauty with intensity of emotion regarded as characteristic of poems.”
1st place - $300.00
2nd place - $200.00
Quick Paint
1st place - $300.00 + PleinAir Magazine subscription
2nd place - $200.00
3rd place - $100.00
Nocturne
1st place - $300.00 + PleinAir Magazine subscription
2nd place - $200.00
3rd place - $100.00