Our Amazing Artists and Carvers 2016

The 2016 Carving Awards have been announced!

Many thanks to all of our Artist-Carvers and to our enthusiastic pumpkin carving judges who were faced with the very difficult task of selecting just a handful of this year’s truly amazing pumpkins for recognition.  We have spent days at the Farm, looking at each and every pumpkin many times. We are blown away by the detail and workmanship of each and every artist’s design. Thank you, artists, for your talent and time. We look forward to seeing you again next year.


Here they are! The Artists and Carvers who, um, “Made the Cut,” so to speak, and transformed the giant pumpkins of the 2016 Amazing Pumpkin Carve into works of art and designed pumpkins for our first-ever online auction of one-of-a-kind art pumpkins for your home.

Artists are listed in alphabetical order with special recognition noted.

Sarah Bernotas
Most Creative Design

Janis Blayne Paul

Michelle Clark
Best Pumpkin at Night

Jonathan Conner

Gordon Connor

Cody Cook

Tom Cook

Tim Cresson

Aleece Davis
Most Creative Use of Materials

Kaitlin Deering Kassel
Honorable Mention

Morris Docktor
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Amy Duckett Wagner

Kate Eggleston

James Feehan
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

John Goeke

Carol Gorham
Honorable Mention

Caroline Hall

Gyuri Hollosy

Lori Johansson
Honorable Mention

Lenora Kandiner

Dan Kassel

Will Kasso
Honorable Mention

James Kelewae

Matthew Langille
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Karen Langille

Curtis May
Best in Show

Messiah

Colleen Miller

Thom Montanari
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Rumpelstiltskin Morgan

Patrick Pasquito
Most Humorous

Suzanne Pitak-Davis
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Leon Rainbow
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Susan Roseman
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Stanley Saperstein

Kathleen Sheehan

Loretta Shigo

Nancy Shill

Margaret Sidlick

Elice Slafka

Tatiana Sougakova

Nancy Stark
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Moriah Thomas

Daryl Tuomari

Annelies van Dommelen
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Addison Vincent
Created custom fine-art pumpkin for Online Auction

Jodi Walker

Mary Watson

Linda Williams

Charlie Yeh
Best Carving Award