Art In The Pines

7th Annual Prescott Plein Air Festival

Plein Air Live

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4th Friday

Join us at the Yavapai College Prescott Art Gallery on August 28th from 5-7pm for a sneak peak at our upcoming Plein air exhibition!

Thank you to everyone who attended
Art in the Pines: The 7th Annual Plein Air Festival on Sunday at the Jim & Linda Lee Performing Arts Center!

Here are the winners, as judged by Tom Conner:

Best of Show:

Reflecting on Watson, Kadin Goldberg

1st Place:

Corner of the City, Igor Kogan

2nd Place:

Mortison Farms Moon, Lydia Gatzow

3rd Place:

Clouds Over Watson, Anton Nowels

Honorable Mentions:

Watson Boulders, Sean Lamoreaux Lamoreauxkogan.igal@gmail.com

Reach for the Sky, Barbara Mulleneaux (Best Sculpture Garden Painting)

In the Pines, Robin Deshayes

In Good Standing, Beth Okurowski

Daybreak Over Mingus, Alison Crary

7th Annual Prescott Plein Air Booklet

A person painting outdoors on a cliff with a landscape of trees and mountains in the background.

Meet 2026 judge Tom Conner

Tom grew up in North Carolina and was drawing and painting from an early age. He graduated from North Carolina State University's School of Design with a degree in architecture while continuing to pursue drawing and painting in his free time. It was after moving to Arizona that his true arts education began, in the deserts and forests of the southwest. Developing a love of great open spaces, hiking, camping and rock climbing soon filled his free time, where he absorbed the beauty of nature and learned to observe his surroundings. Since then he has explored his love of the natural world through painting, both plein air and studio works, always in the pursuit of capturing greater truths. The essential quest for him in both painting and architecture are similar; light and form are in partnership to reveal the nature of one another. Every painting seeks to explore this dynamic.


Event poster for the 7th annual Art in the Pines Prescott Plein Air Festival featuring a silhouette of an artist painting outdoors in front of pine trees.
A collection of logos and a colorful cartoon cat mascot holding paintbrushes with splash marks and paint, representing various local businesses and organizations in Prescott.