{"id":2612,"date":"2018-05-07T20:40:46","date_gmt":"2018-05-08T03:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.annran.com\/website\/?p=2612"},"modified":"2021-08-21T01:24:36","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T08:24:36","slug":"lets-go-receives-best-in-show-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/lets-go-receives-best-in-show-award\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8221; Receives Best in Show Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.annran.com\/website\/dogs\/lets-go\" target=\"_Blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Let's Go! - scratchboard by Ann Ranlett, click on image for more info\" src=\"https:\/\/www.annran.com\/website\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/4-final-upload.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"400\"><\/a><br \/>\nIt was a surprise and an honor to learn at the opening reception that &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8221; a scratchboard drawing of my friend&#8217;s dog, Fidget, received the Best in Show (Gold) Award in the Master&#8217;s (MSA) Division of&nbsp;the 2018 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scratchboardsociety.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">International Society of Scratchboard Artists<\/a>&#8216; Annual Exhibition. The juror for the MSA Division, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/jeanvanceartist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jean Vance<\/a>, had this to say about the drawing after I wrote to thank her for choosing my work for the Gold Award: &#8220;<em>When I walked into the gallery, I immediately was captured by&nbsp;your entry; the composition, values and fine detail that exemplified the beauty and technique of scratchboard.&nbsp; You are correct in saying that any in the Master&#8217;s division could have been considered, but yours spoke the loudest and spoke to me of joy.<\/em>&#8221; I am truly grateful that she saw something special in this work, as the subject is a very special dog. Fidget was a senior dog with cancer when my friend adopted her, yet she thrived and is still going strong (although slowing down now) nearly 5 years later. The Best in Show Award belongs to Fidget as well!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" title=\"Best in Show Gold Award\" src=\"https:\/\/www.annran.com\/pages\/images\/dogs\/MSAGoldAward.jpg\" width=\"418\" height=\"323\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a surprise and an honor to learn at the opening reception that &#8220;Let&#8217;s Go!&#8221; a scratchboard drawing of my friend&#8217;s dog, Fidget, received the Best in Show (Gold) Award in the Master&#8217;s (MSA) Division of&nbsp;the 2018 International Society &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/lets-go-receives-best-in-show-award\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award","category-shows"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3295,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2612\/revisions\/3295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}