The Combined Talents Florida International is an annual, juried competition sponsored by the Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts. The competition is open to artists around the world who are 18 years of age or over. Artists may submit up to two works for consideration in the media of their choice. A $20.00 entry fee assists with funding for the competition, including production of a color catalog.

The works for exhibition are selected through a blind jurying process. Jurors select works based on their own merit and must agree the artist demonstrates skill within the chosen medium. The jury panel for the 2006 exhibition consisted of two faculty members from the Art Department at FSU and were as follows: Janice Hartwell (Associate Chair and Professor of Art; Areas of Teaching: Printmaking) and Kirsten Rae Simonsen (Assistant Professor of Art; Areas of Teaching: Digital Cinema, Graphic Design and Drawing).

This year 316 artists entered the competition creating a total of approximately 632 works for the jurors to consider. After much deliberation, the jurors selected 41 works for the exhibition. These works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse and unique.

 

Mark Abrahamson HONORABLE MENTION Trans Am c-print 26" x 20"	Mark Abrahamson Split Estate c-print 26" x 20"	Kevin Bell Dust Devil oil on canvas 25" x 28"
Dale Clifford Drawings from The Secret Garden III charcoal, graphite, chalk and ink on paper 27" x 44"	Lourdes Delgado Francis c-print 16" x 20"	Marie Yoho Dorsey Flower Ritual mixed media installation 120" x 72" x 72"
David S. East Blue Ranch Row ceramic, Astroturf, steel 12" x 15" x 31"	Mark Forman "3030" - White Painting acrylic on canvas with transferred color 30" x 30"	Gwendolyn L. Fryer Vessel mixed media 92" x 39" x 20"
Larry Fuchs Reflections of the Past photograph 18.5" x 18.5"	Tad Gloeckler FIRST AWARD Bicycle "Chop" Kit (Transport Model) wood, paint, found objects 22" x 40" x 24" (when open)	Jon Goebel Drunken Ladies with Jewelry and Fine Attire etching 15.5" x 23"
Alexis Granwell Weight and Weightlessness monotype 12" x 72"	Lloyd A. Green Jr. What's Next? photograph 16" x 20"	Steven S. Gregory HONORABLE MENTION Backporch photograph 25" x 30"
Matthew Hopson-Walker HONORABLE MENTION The Upper Hand lithograph and silkscreen 21" x 14"	Jen-Yu Lai Mom, how much credit do we have? ceramic and found object 60" x 30" x 48"	Alison McNulty Meditation on Overlap slate, the artist's hair 66" x 42" x 3"
Tessa McSorley Arbitrary Ancestry bleach and silkscreen on paper 21" x 26.5"	Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido Couture Series: Untitled fabric 22" x 14" x 8"	Elizabeth Mesa-Gaido SECOND AWARD Couture Series: Lucy fabric 27" x 12" x 15"
Rob Millard-Mendez Icarus Chair wood, steel and wax 14" x 10" x 20"	Rob Millard-Mendez Briefs with Built in Negative Reinforcement mouse traps and hardware 12" x 20" x 16"	Eileen Starr Moderbacher Kindling oil on canvas 9" x 12"
Michelle C. Moode Snow Going Up etching, monotype and sewing on teabags 17" x 21"	Marti Plager Moving Onward quilt 51" x 65"	Jami Nix Rahn Vacuum vacuum and mink fur coat 45" x 16" x 14"
Mollari Sederberg Moodusa polymeric steel and acrylic urethane 29" x 21" x 21"	Keith Sharp Trunk toned gelatin silver print 24" x 20"	K. A. Sheehan The Kavalinkas watercolor, pastel and gouache 42" x 72"
Carla Tilghman Branching Out fiber 120" x 70"	Carla Tilghman Entanglement fiber 90" x 70"	Anneliese Vobis Sea Dragon paper, noodles and paint 33" x 36" x 10"
Anneliese Vobis Checkmate felt 32" x 21" x 3"	Tom Wagner Heal mixed media on canvas 30" x 40"	Barbara Payne Ward passages II intaglio 20” x 15”
Tim Warner Midnight in the Valley of the Unemployed Unicorn mixed media installation dimensions variable	John Westmark Icarus I acrylic and paper clothing patterns on canvas 109” x 84”	Stephanie Wooster Vanitas Peach oil 9” x 12”
Stephanie Wooster Faucet oil 10” x 10”	Kang Ya-Chu La vie est d'ailleurs (Living Somewhere) tracing paper, cotton thread, mirror and brass button 18” x 14” x 14"