"On My Own Time" Multi-Company Employee Art Exhibition Announced by Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA)
Denver, CO — Colorado Business Committee for the Arts (CBCA) announced the winners of the 16th "On My Own Time" (OMOT), Annual Multi-Company Employee Art Exhibition at an awards reception on Friday, May 23 at Republic Plaza.

The OMOT program is designed to identify, encourage and celebrate the creative talents that exist within CBCA member companies. Participants regularly report that they value and enjoy teambuilding, the opportunity to achieve before their colleagues and the morale boost that accompany OMOT shows.

Participating companies hold individual OMOT art exhibitions which are juried by a distinguished panel of arts professionals chosen by CBCA. Winners are selected from hundreds of entries created by employees and their family members in seven categories: Digital Media, Fine Art, Fine Craft, Photography, Professional, Sculpture and Young Artist (age 18 and younger). The winning works are then publicly exhibited in the OMOT Multi-Company Employee Art Exhibition.

Participating companies in OMOT 2009 are Anadarko Petroleum, Brookfield Properties, Delta Dental of Colorado, Denver Water, Kaiser Permanente and Pinnacol Assurance. Submitted artwork includes painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, ceramics, glass, jewelry, textiles and digital media.

The winners of the 2009 OMOT Multi-Company Employee Art Exhibition are:

1. Best of Show
   Scot Darr, Time Eternal – sculpture (clock)
   Brookfield Properties/Fetter Logic
    
2. Digital Media
   1st Anthony Monaco, Cousin Louis – Denver Water
   2nd Misty Beyer, Dreaming Tree – Pinnacol Assurance
   Honorable Mention Michael Azar, Golden Leaves – Pinnacol Assurance
    
3. Fine Art
   1st Nicole Peschel, Essence of Moholy-Nagy – Denver Water
   2nd Kevin Beisel, Button – Kaiser Permanente
   Honorable Mention Thomas Hayes, El Chapultepec – Denver Water
   Honorable Mention Katie Petross, Pondering the Clouds – Anadarko Petroleum
    

For more information contact: Susan Beyda, CBCA Membership and Communications Director at 303-282-5129 or email sbeyda@cbca.org

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