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AGS 2024 Artistry Award

The Artistry Award is a special award to honor and recognize some of our fantastic artists and their beautiful gourd creations. Because there are thousands of art entries in many different AGS gourd shows, the Artistry Award acknowledges the best of the best.

Eligible entries  are those from current AGS members who won one of the following awards in an 
AGS-judged event in 2024:
  • Peoples Choice
  • Best of Show
  • Entry in a non-judged Grand Masters category
  • Multiple entries from the same person is allowed, as long as they are different gourds that won the qualifying awards.

What do you receive if you win?
1st Place $200 & Trophy and
  • Photo of your gourd on the cover of the Spring issue of The Gourd Magazine
2nd Place $100 & Certificate
3rd Place $50 & Certificate

****All winners will receive extra copies of the magazine for bragging rights

How to Enter: You can't win if you don't enter!
  • Deadline for submission is December 1st
  • Specify what award was earned to qualify your entry
  • Send up to 3 (three) photos of your winning piece
  • Write a short description about how the piece was created
  • Provide a brief biographic information on the artist

How to Submit Your Entry
  • You may send photos, bio and description by eMail to [email protected]
  • All photos MUST be individual .jpg photo attachments. DO NOT insert them in a document or embed them into the body of the email.
  • Printed photos may be sent to Bonnie Gibson, Artistry Award, 5930 N Camino Arizpe, Tuscon, AZ 85718-4612
  • Please note: Printed photos will be scanned (to upload to the private web page) and the photo quality will not be as good as an original digital file

Photography Guidelines
  • We require photos that are of the largest file size possible for quality reproduction in the magazine
  • Photos without ribbons are preferred
  • Digital photos (.jpg) are preferred to printed ones

How the Artistry Award Judging Works
  • Click here to understand the judging procedures

Definitions of Qualifying Entries
  • Click here for detailed definitions of Best of Show and People's Choice winners

Click here to download a copy of these Artistry Award descriptions, requirements and guidelines

This Award is solely funded by donations. To support excellence in gourd artistry donate to the AGS Excellence in Gourd "Artistry Award" Fund. 


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Patricia Barajas,  California - 1st Place 2024

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Sophia Delaat, Missouri: 2nd Place 2019

Denise Lown, Arizona - 2nd place 2024

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Jill Robinson, Austin, TX 3rd Place 2022

Karin Anderson, Georgia - 3rd place, 2024

Gallery - Qualifying Entries & Winners

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  • Home
  • Join
    • Standard Membership-2025
    • Auto Renewal Membership
    • CA+International Membership
  • Magazine
    • Quarterly Contest
    • Back Issues
  • Chapters
  • Calendar
  • Education
  • Gourd Growing Tutorials
    • Manipulated Gourd Tutorials
    • Sellers: Seeds, Gourds
    • Growing
    • Harvesting
  • Crafting Techniques
    • Pyrography
    • Crafting Resources
    • Crafting Tutorials
  • Judging
    • Competition Scoring Forms for Judges & Clerks
    • Training Apprentice & Certified Judges
    • Judges Activity Reporting Forms
    • List of Judge Instructors
  • Artistry Award
  • Jim Story Award
    • JSA-Eligibility/Entry
  • History of Gourds Around the World
  • About
  • Judging