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DATE: FRIDAY, June 3, 1994                    TAG: 9406010175 
SECTION: PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS                     PAGE: 13    EDITION: FINAL  
SOURCE: Short 
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PORTSMOUTH ARTIST WINS BEST-IN-SHOW

{LEAD} Willie Lee Williams Jr. of Portsmouth won the best-in-show award of $1,500 in the 24th annual Seawall Art Show last weekend.

Other winners were Richard Alma of Williamsburg, second place, $1,000; Ruth Splichal of Portsmouth, third place, $750; Jim Bob of Portsmouth, fourth place, $500.

{REST} Honorable mention and $100 checks went to David Milton Browne, Spike Splichal and John M. Taylor, all of Portsmouth, Helen Singleton of Norfolk and Richard Davis of Chattanoga, Tenn.

Awards of Merit and $50 checks went to J. Howard Johnson of Portsmouth, Cynthia Box of Midlothian, Gordon Neal of Danville, Deborah Sorrentino of Norfolk and Foust of Richmond.

In a student art competition, the winners were Christopher Kimrey, first place; Samantha Terry, second; Angela Byrne, third, and Brian Howell, fourth. Honorable mention ribbons went to Elizabeth Cabonillas, Leon Platt, Travis Gary, Scott Taylor and Allen Padilla. All are students at Churchland High School except Cabonillas, a student at Cradock Middle School.

Two Chapel Hill, N.C., residents, Ellen O'Hara Stavick of the University of North Carolina art faculty and Sara Schrott of the Ackland Art Center curatorial staff, were judges for the Seawall Art Show. Ed Carson, winner of last year's best-in-show award, judged the students. by CNB