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