NORWICH – Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival is pleased to announce this year’s award of the Francis K. Wilcox Scholarship for Emerging Young Artists: Maggie Avolio of Unadilla Valley Central School and Christina Davis of Sherburne-Earlville Central School. 

Jurors Deborah Whitman and Jackie Gimson-Craine chose the watercolor works of Avolio and the fiber and ceramic works of Davis over a talented selection of other local student artists.

The 2012 Francis K. Wilcox Scholarship Awards of $350 per Emerging Young Artist exhibitor will be presented at the complimentary Awards Breakfast on Sunday morning, September 9, at the 18th Annual Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival in downtown Norwich.  As well, $100 gift certificates good for Golden Artist Colors products will be awarded to each Emerging Young Artist exhibitor.