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Category 1 - Exhibition Open:

 

Subject A. Any subject

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 2 - Relief Carvings, Chip Carvings and Woodburning:

 

Subject A. Relief carvings of landscapes, seascapes, flora or f----

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject B. Relief carvings of architectural/mechanical subject(s): (buildings, bridges, planes, boats, etc.)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject C. Relief carvings of human subject(s):

(single or group figures including religious subjects)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject D. Chip carvings: (any subject applied to flat surfaces or applied to chairs, tables, trunks, frames or crests, etc.)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject E. Woodburning: (any subject applied to a wood surface)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject F. Relief or flat category - OPEN (any subject includes intarsia and marquetry)

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 3 - Realistic In-The-Round Animal:

 

Subject A. Domestic and agricultural animal(s)

            Finish: 2 - Painted

            Finish: 3 - Natural

Subject B. Wildlife subject(s): any animal not covered in any other animal subject

            Finish: 2 - Painted

            Finish: 3 - Natural

Subject C. Fish subject(s): any fish, fresh or saltwater, using gills for breathing

            Finish: 2 - Painted

            Finish: 3 - Natural

Subject D. Aquatic Mammals Subject(s): any mammal, fresh or saltwater using lungs for breathing

            Finish: 2 - Painted

            Finish: 3 - Natural

Subject E. Animal Head Subject(s): head of any animal(s)

            Finish: 2 - Painted

            Finish: 3 - Natural

Subject F. Amphibian and Reptile Subject(s)

            Finish: 2 - Painted

            Finish: 3 - Natural

Subject G. Realistic In-The-Round Animal Categories - OPEN: any animal subject other than birds

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 4 - Realistic In-The-Round Life-Sized Bird(s):

 

Subject A. Waterfowl: duck, geese, swans, etc.

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject B. Shorebird and Seabird(s): herons, storks, cranes, limpkins, ibices, flamingos, rails, oyster catchers, avocets, stilts, plovers, sandpipers, woodcocks, snipe, coots, gallinules and godwarts, loons, grebes, sulks, cormorants, shearwaters, petrels, frigates, jaegers, gulls, terns, etc.

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject C. Raptor(s): hawks, owls, falcons, kites, eagles, etc.

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject D. Upland Game Bird(s): quail, pheasant, dove, etc.

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject E. Perching Bird(s): inland water, open country, farmland: blackbirds, bobolinks, cowbirds, crows, dicksissels, grackles, kingbirds, kingfishers, larks, longspurs, magpies, meadowlarks, nighthawks, pipits, ravens, shrikes, swallows, swifts, etc.

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject F. Woodland, Brush & Thicket: catbirds, chats, crossbills, cuckoos, flycatchers, gnatchers, grosbeaks, hummingbirds, jays (other than blue), kinglets, orioles, overbirds, parrots, peewees, phoebes, redstarts, siskins, tanagera, thrashers, thrushes, towhees, vireos, warblers, waxwings, woodpeckers, etc.

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject G. Town & Garden: bluebirds, blue jays, buntings, cardinals, chickadees, ginches, juncos, martins, mockingbirds, nuthatches, red polls, robins, sparrows, starlings, swallows, etc.

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject H. Realistic In-The-Round Life Sized Birds: OPEN: any subject(s)

            Finish: 2 - Painted

   

Category 5 - Realistic In-The-Round Miniature Birds

 

      Note: Use subjects from Life-Size Bird Category

   

Category 6 - Realistic In-The-Round Humans: (including religious subjects)

 

Subject A. Human torso, human bust(s) and human full figure

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject B. Realistic In-The-Round Human - OPEN: any subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 7 - Caricatures In-the-Round:

 

Subject A. Single figure

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject B. Group figures

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject C. Caricature in-the-round category - OPEN: any subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 8 - Stylized:

 

Subject A. Human subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject B. Animal subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject C. Abstract subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject D. Stylized categories - OPEN: any subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 9 - In-The-Round Ornamental, Mythological, Extinct Species, Etc.:

 

Subject A. Mythologival/fantast/extinct/Santa's/Kachinas

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject B. Carousel figure subject(s) - full sized

            Finish: 1 - Any

            Finish: 2 - Painted

Subject C. Flower subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject D. Walking stick or cane subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject E. In-the-round ornamental. Mythological, extinct, categories -

OPEN: any subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 10 - In-The-Round Whittled

 

Subject A. Human

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject B. Subjects other than human

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject C. In-the-round whittled category - OPEN: any subject(s)

            Finish: 1 - Any

   

Category 11 - Religious

 

Subject A. Human

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject B. Emblems, motifs, symbols, etc.

            Finish: 1 - Any

Subject C. Religious OPEN: any subject(s)

Finish: 1 - Any

   
   

Masters

Category M-1: Relief, Chip Carving and Woodburning
 

Subject A.   Landscapes, seascapes, architectural, flora and fauns
Subject B.   Human
Subject C.   Chip Carvings
Subject D.   Woodburning
Subject E:   Open

   

Category M-2: Realistic In-The-Round Animal

 

Subject A.   Domestic and wildlife
Subject B.   Fish
Subject C.   Marine Mammals
Subject D.   Amphibians
Subject E.   Open

   

Category M-3:   Realistic In-The-Round Birds

 

Subject A.   Waterfowl - life size
Subject B.   Shorebirds and seabirds - life size
Subject C.   Raptors and game birds - life size  
Subject D.   Songbirds - life size
Subject E.   Miniatures
Subject F.   Open

   

Category M-4:   Realistic In-The-Round Humans

 

Subject A. Torso/Busts/Full Figure
Subject B.   Open

   

Category M-5:   Caricatures In-The-Round

 

Subject A.   Any Subject
Subject B.   Open

   

Category M-6:   Stylized

 

Subject A.   Human
Subject B.   Other
Subject C.   Open

   

Category M-7:   Ornamental, Whittled, and Religious

 

Subject A.   Carousel
Subject B.   Canes
Subject C.   Whittled
Subject D.   Religious
Subject E.   Open