Creedmoor Woman Takes Top Prize In Photo Contest On Display At VGCC

A black-and-white picture of an old Southern farm scene is the grand prize winner of the Kerr Lake Art Society Spring Photography Show, now on display at Vance-Granville Community College.

Theresa Daye of Creedmoor took the Best in Show Award and the blue ribbon in black-and-white photography for her picture, “Window of the Past,” which depicts an empty rocking chair on the front porch of an unpainted old farm house.

Eighteen area photographers entered 72 photographs in the show. Wanda G. Satterwhite, a Warren County native and Vance County resident, judged the entries. She is a self-taught painter who works in all media and a self-taught photographer who has placed in both painting and photography in several juried shows.

In the black-and-white category, Jean Williams of Henderson took second place, Drew Morris of Asheboro got third, and an honorable mention went to Ann Marie Hensley of Chapel Hill.
Shirley Welch of Galax, Va., took the blue ribbon in both the color and computer (electronic) categories. Drew Morris won a second place in the computer category, and Mabel Janet Wood of Chase City, Va., took third.

Ramachandra P. Reddy of Henderson won the red ribbon in color, Billie Joe Gwaltney of South Hill, Va., took third, and honorable mentions went to M. Bernard Champion of Clarksville, Va., and to Gwaltney.

All the photography show entries will be on display in the lobby of the Civic Center on the VGCC main campus in Vance County until Friday, April 19. The public is invited to view the pictures from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. on Fridays. 

BEST IN SHOW – Judge Wanda Satterwhite puts a blue ribbon on the top black-and-white photo, which was also judge Best in Show at the Kerr Lake Art Society’s Spring Photography show, currently on display in the Civic Center lobby at Vance-Granville Community College. Theresa Daye of Creedmoor took the photograph that Satterwhite judged the best of 72 entries in the show.