Winner of ARTrails Prize Drawing ‘Ecstatic’

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Skip Albertson was ecstatic when he discovered he was the winner of ARTrails member Carlene Salazar’s Twirling Tree Fungus.

Albertson says, “It was my first time attending ARTrails. I was pleasantly surprised when I won Carlene’s photograph.”

His pleasure is easily explained: Albertson is a mycologist — someone who studies various fungi. He works in that capacity for the Washington State Department of Ecology. Salazar’s photo was of an amazing and colorful fungus wrapping itself around a tree.



Every year, three ARTrails artists volunteer to donate something they have made. These three items are prizes given to people who attended the studio tours and/or the Exhibition Gallery. The lucky winners are chosen randomly from the names given on the visitor questionnaires provided at the Exhibition Gallery and at each studio.

The other two donors and winners were: Eagle Mirror, a mosaic by Ina Wagenman, won by Diane LaRue of Longview; and Blue Wagon, a painting by Sheryl Harris, won by Hannah Young of Silver Creek.