SPECTRUM 16 JUDGING: CONSOLIDATED POSTS
9:15 PM – Announcing the Spectrum 16 award winners:
6:50 PM – Thanks once again to those who submitted their work to Spectrum this year, and thanks as well to this year's jury and the assistants who volunteered their time to help today's event run smoothly as it did!
Spectrum's Directors and Jury for 16 (from left): Arnie Fenner, Steven Sanders, Dave Dorman, Bob Self, Donato Giancola, Kevin Brimmer, and Cathy Fenner
Assistants for the day were (from left): Lazarus Potter, Tracy Crawford, Armen Davis, Lucy Moreno, Gillian Titus, Angela Wheeler, and Arlo Burnett
6:30 PM – It's been a long day! The snow finally stopped some time this afternoon, but the weather didn't put a damper on the event – after lunch, things happened at a rapid-fire tempo as the jury hit their stride in viewing the pieces in the Unpublished category. With every submitted entry having been shown to the jury by 3:15pm, the debates over medal winners could now begin:
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Yes... it's still snowing...
11:35 AM – The jury moved along at a pretty steady clip finishing their voting for the Concept Art, Dimensional and Editorial categories. Institutional has just been laid out, and coming up will be a short break for lunch beginning at noon.
Kevin Brimmer looks carefully through entries in the Dimensional category
Dave Dorman considers entries in the Editorial category
Donato Giancola also makes his way through Dimensional entries
The assistants take a breather after entries in the Institutional category are laid out
A full view of the room where the jury views the entries
9:35 AM – After a short breakfast, the jury went to work on the Advertising, Book, and Comics categories...
Donato Giancola and Steven Sanders examine entries in the Advertising category
Bof Self makes his way along a table with the Comics entries
Donato and Steven continue along the room
Contnuing through midday, Kansas City expects 3"-5" of snow...
8:40 AM – Nobody really expected this... it was almost 70 degrees on Wednesday, and now the city is shoveling itself out from under 3" of snow this morning. The jurors all arrived last night before this miniature blizzard, and the only delays so far have been with those assisting with the judging...
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