Art Reach of Mid Michigan

POSTER CONTEST WINNERS

Congratulations Rose Wunderbaum Traines! - Rose has won the Art Reach Poster Contest for the 2009 Annual Auction for the Benefit of the Arts!

About Rose - Rose Wunderbaum Traines was born in Monroeville Indiana. The family owned a salvage business and by the age of 12, Rose had been taught to use a welding/cutting torch. She worked along side her father cutting down old trucks, cars, farm machinery and other salvageable subjects, sometimes inventing things. After her high school graduation, the family moved to Mt. Pleasant. Rose attended Indiana State, and later transferred to Central Michigan where she earned her BS Degree in Speech. It was then that she developed serious interest in metal sculpting and began pursuing it.

With over 55 solo exhibitions and many more group shows, Rose has a collection of awards and honors including the 1989 Juror's Choice Award from the Copley Society in Boston, and First Honorable Mention from the Salmagundi Club in New York City. These are the two oldest Art Associations in America.

Entering her 55th year as a sculptor and finding it more exciting all the time, Rose has completed more than 600 unique sculpt works.

About the Poster Contest - The Art Reach poster contest began in 1981. The prize for the winning entry is $500. The winning entry, along with the rest of the enteries, is then auctioned off at the Annual Benefit for the the Arts Auction, a fundraiser for Art Reach. All media is accepted. The contest is juried by Roy Saper who owns Saper Galleries. Saper Galleries is is a world-renowned award-winning bricks-and-mortar art gallery located in downtown East Lansing, Michigan. Saper chooses what he feels are the five best pieces and then the auction committee votes on the winner. Below are the other 4 pieces Saper chose for the 2009 contest.