First Place Rosen Award: Andrew Light, Divergent, 2020, Steel, Lexington, KY Boone, NC -- During a recent weekend in July, art enthusiasts attended the 36th Annual Rosen Sculpture Walk with the Juror. This year’s juror, renowned sculptor Elizabeth Brim from...

36th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition and Exhibition
May 23, 2022 - May 14, 2023

36th Rosen Awards

First Place Award
Andrew Light, Divergent

Third Place Award
Kevin Curry, Lost and Found
This sculpture has been removed for the remainder of the 36th Rosen Exhibition

Second Place Award
Susan Moffatt, Sinuosity II

Honorable Mention
Kevin Eichner, Mei Amour
Sinuosity II
Susan Moffatt
Chapel Hill, NC
2020
36th Rosen Second Place Award
Man, I Feel Like a Woman
Jackie Braitman
Takoma Park, MD
2021
The Window
Wayne Vaughn
Graham, NC
2022
Silver Sage
David Boyajian
New Fairfield, CT
2022
Longing for Santa Croce
Shawn Morin
Bowling Green, OH
2022
Here to There
Matthew Newman
Damascus, VA
2022
This sculpture has been removed for the remainder of the 36th Rosen Exhibition
Mei Amour
Kevin Eichner
Moncure, NC
2020
Honorable Mention
Lost and Found
Kevin Curry
Tallahassee, FL
2019
This sculpture has been removed for the remainder of the 36th Rosen Exhibition
36th Rosen Third Place Award
Divergent
Andrew Light
Lexington, KY
2014
First Place Award
About the Juror
Elizabeth Brim
This year’s competition juror is Elizabeth Brim. Brim is a sculptor who uses traditional and innovative blacksmithing techniques and is best known for feminine imagery in her ironwork. A native of Columbus, Georgia, she graduated with an MFA in printmaking before studying and working with a variety of materials at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina. Quite unexpectedly, she fell in love with iron. With a unique juxtaposition of the feminine and the ferrous, Brim transforms the frilly dresses, fairy tales, and gender expectations of her childhood into remarkable works of social commentary. Brim is also a teacher and lives in western North Carolina.

Video & Connections Exhibition Guide
About the Curator
Mary Anne Redding
Mary Anne Redding is a visual arts curator and writer and serves as the curator of the Turchin Center. She has more than forty years’ experience working as a curator, archivist, librarian, educator, and arts administrator. She holds a B.A. in English Literature from Ohio University, an M.A. in Arts Administration from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an M.L.S. from the University of Illinois, Champaign Urbana, as well as an advanced certificate in Museum Studies from Arizona State University. She has written and published numerous essays on photography and contemporary art. Before taking her most recent post as the Curator at the Turchin Center, Redding was the Curator at the Sioux City Art Center in Sioux City, Iowa, for 13 months. Redding previously served for nearly 6 years as the Curator at the Turchin Center. Past positions include working as the Curator of the Marion Center for Photographic Arts and the Chair of the Photography Department at Santa Fe University of Art & Design, and as the Curator of Photography for the Palace of the Governors/New Mexico History Museum.
About the Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition
This nationally recognized juried competition, established in 1987, has long been credited with enhancing the cultural landscape of the High Country region, while serving as a highlight and point of pride for the university’s summer arts festival, An Appalachian Summer Festival.
Reflecting the vision and generosity of Martin and Doris Rosen, an extraordinary couple whose lives were shaped by the spirit of public service and philanthropy, the competition brings a remarkable array of contemporary sculpture to our campus and community.
Each year, ten sculptures are selected for exhibition, and are situated in outdoor, public settings across the university campus. A cash prize is awarded to the artist whose work is chosen as each year’s Rosen Award winner, which is announced by the juror at the popular Annual Sculpture Walk, a highlight of every summer festival season.
Over the years, the exhibition program has earned an international reputation for showcasing the finest in contemporary sculpture, and has become a source of inspiration for thousands of visitors, area residents, and members of the university community who enjoy access to a diverse and ever-changing selection of outdoor sculpture each season.


Martin & Doris Rosen
Vision, generosity, and a pursuit of excellence are some of the many qualities that characterized the lives of Martin and Doris Rosen. From their years devoted to building a successful business, to their lives after retirement, revolving around family, philanthropy, and a commitment to the arts, this exceptional couple left an indelible mark on the communities in which they lived and worked.
Thanks to the continuing generosity of the Rosen Family, Martin and Doris’s legacy of support for quality visual arts programming has been continued by their children, and enables this beloved exhibition program to continue to develop and flourish. In July 1997, the Rosens donated Hephaestus, a large commissioned sculpture by Bruce White, to Appalachian State’s Permanent Collection, and it adorns the Rivers Street frontage area of the Schaefer Center for the Performing Arts to this day.
On the occasion of the Rosens’ 50th wedding anniversary in October 1999, their children established the Martin and Doris Rosen Scholarship to assist rising junior or senior art majors at Appalachian State. Tireless supporters of the arts, the Rosen Family has given so much of themselves over the years to ensure that the arts remain a strong foundation of campus and community life in the High Country. We wish to extend to them our deepest appreciation.
Additional images
Flickr – Installation images
Contact Us
Please address all inquires to:
36th Rosen Outdoor Sculpture Competition & Exhibition
Turchin Center for the Visual Arts
PO Box 32139
423 West King Street
Boone, NC 28608
Mary Anne Redding, Curator: reddingm@appstate.edu