Fusion Art is pleased to announce the opening of the Women Artists International Online Art Exhibition. The exhibition is now available for viewing on the Fusion Art website and features awards in three categories: Traditional Art, Digital Art & Photography and 3-Dimensional Art.

For this exhibition, the gallery invited both 2D and 3D submissions from women artists, only, regardless of their location or their experience or education in the art field. All women artists, over the age of 18 were encouraged to submit their best representational or abstract art and photography.

The Best in Show winners are Carina Jimenez for her oil on panel, "The Taking of Carina", Sheri Emerson for her digital photo artwork, "Papillon" and Marina Smelik for her stone sculpture, '"The Mystery Within." Carina, Sheri and Marina, as the Best in Show winners, are invited to participate in Fusion Art's 3rd Annual Group Show in Palm Springs in November 2018.

In addition to the Best in Show awards, nine honorable mention awards in each category were given. Honorable Mention awards in the Traditional category were given to Marti White for her mixed media, "Crown Jewels", Laara Cassells for her acrylic on canvas, "Adeline", Rhea Cutillo for her oil on wood, "Cultivation Killed the Wildlife", Anastiscia Chantler Lang for her pastel, pencil and pen on paper, "Wildfire", Rebecca Case for her scratchboard, "Awaiting Flight School", Jayshree Shah for her oil on canvas, "Glory Trap", Natalie Reilly for her acrylic on canvas, "California Dreamin'...again", Lisa Daniels for her acrylic, "Spa Day", and Candace Cima for her watercolor, "Urban Boredom."

Honorable Mention awards in the Digital & Photography category were given to Esther Byrt for her digital manipulation, "Transformation", Sandra Kuprion-Thomas for her digital photograph, "Sunrise Lake Matheson 3", Megan Conaty for her digital archival print, "Untitled", Kathleen Greenwood for her digital art, "A Touch of Red", Erin McCluskey for her digital photograph, "Antelope Canyon", Angela Amias for her digital mixed media, "She Wears Her Heart on Her Sleeve", Nancy Pallowick for her photograph, "Graffiti", Michelle Webb for her digital painting, "Aberdeen", and Barbara Mierau-Klein for her digital photograph, "A Matter of Time."

Honorable Mention awards in the 3-Dimensional category were given to Lisa Battle for her ceramic, "Ritual", Katty Smith for her clay, "The House that Built Me", Loretta Ana Kaufman for her hand built stoneware, "Double Monologues I: The Celia Series", Martie Geiger-Ho for her mixed media, "Collection Box with Deconstructed Self", Kim Thoman for her oil paint & welded steel, "They 5", Stephanie Schafer for her magazine collage on styrofoam head, "Under my Skin - The Dark and Light", Hsun-yuan Hsu for her clay and glaze, "Snake Fruit", Holly Deckard for her ceramic, "Love" and Lynne Hanson for her mixed media, "Roan."

The remaining finalists in the exhibition all exemplified uniquely creative talents and we are honored to showcase their artwork on the Fusion Art website.

The international competition received a diverse collection of quality artwork from artists all around the world, including the US, Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, Philippines, Spain, Germany, Ireland, Zambia, Israel, Japan, Romania, Cyprus, Morocco, Armenia, India, Scotland, and R. Macedonia. The exhibition will be featured on the Fusion Art website through April 14, 2018.

Each month and quarter Fusion Art hosts uniquely themed solo and group art competitions and exhibitions. Both winners and finalists are provided with worldwide exposure, by having their work promoted through Fusion Art’s website, in hundreds of press release announcements, email marketing, online event calendars, art news websites and through the gallery’s social media outlets. The gallery’s objective is to promote the artists, worldwide, to art professionals, gallerists, collectors and buyers.

To view the exhibition and for further information on all the winners and finalists, please visit Fusion Art's website: https://fusionartps.com/women-artists-art-exhibition-jan-april-2018/.