ANEAW Award Ceremony, Brunch, and Lecture

Please join us for the ANEAW Awards Ceremony, Brunch, and an informative Lecture on Sunday, August 9, from 11 AM–1 PM. The program will include a presentation by the Juror of Selection, Tim Fortune and the Juror Awards, Sarah Yeoman.

Reservations are required. Admission is $25 for View Members and $30 for Non-Members.

• Registration closes Wednesday, August 5th, 2026.

Following the event, the galleries will be open to the public free of charge from 1–4 PM. 

Juror of Selection: Tim Fortune

Born and raised in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York, Tim Fortune studied art at Tyler School of Art of Temple University (BFA) and New York University (MA Studio Art). He subsequently studied in Italy for several years. Since 1994 he has maintained Fortune Studio and Gallery in downtown Saranac Lake, NY, anchoring a vibrant arts community in the village.

Often focusing on the effects of water which surrounded him in Venice, Italy and the Adirondacks, Fortune has a passion for a dramatic "inner light" and the ever changing patterns of nature.

Mr. Fortune's works have been shown in numerous galleries both nationally and internationally, including the Art in Embassies Program of the U.S. Department of State. He has won many awards and his work is represented in corporate collections and the permanent collection of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York.
(Visit www.fortunestudio.com for further information and two video tours)

Juror of Awards: Sarah Yeoman, AWS

Sarah Yeoman is an internationally recognized watercolor artist and instructor and a signature member of the American Watercolor Society, with only 400 members throughout the world. Originally from Lawrenceville, NJ she winters in northern Delaware but has spent the last 65 years summering on Indian Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate NY. Her Great-Grand Uncle Buster Lewis built the family cabin in 1917 and also brought the famous Princeton Tiger bar to Farrells Tavern (Indian Lake Restaurant) in the 1930's.

She has been featured in Watercolor Artist Magazine, The Art of Watercolor, Pratique Des Arts, The Artist Magazine and the Ellie Saab Haute Couture Paris Runway Catalog. She has served as a juror for The Western Federation of Watercolor Societies, The Northeast Watercolor Society and The Exhibition of American Watercolors in Old Forge, NY.

From her Crow and Raven series and Brandywine Valley landscapes to her 45 years of painting, paddling and exploring the Adirondacks in watercolor she is most at home in the woods and on the water following in the artistic steps of her painting hero, Winslow Homer

Sarah has been teaching painting for 40 years and has been an instructor at Abanakee Studios in Indian Lake, Timberlock and for the Lake Placid Center for the Arts. She has also taught workshop across the US, Canada and Europe. Her work can be found at Abanakee Studios in Indian Lake, Gallery 46 in Lake Placid and Har't Gallery in North Creek. You can also see more of Sarahs work and see her teaching schedule on her website. www.sarahyeoman.com