Twenty-four artists participated in this third-year collaboration between the RAL Art Center and Bay Transit.
Sharon Mason Stone, Executive Director of the RAL Art Center, and Ken Pollock, Executive Director of Bay Transit, announced the awards for the “Art in Transit” competition at a reception on May 19. This art exhibit was judged by Pam Doss, Executive Director of the Bay School Community Arts Center in Mathews, and Mike Stevens, owner of Gander Designs of Lancaster. Stevens has the expertise for designing and producing the large format application of vehicle wrap used for this project.
Doss said that the selections that were made reflect how the artwork would look on the bus, and how it would feel seeing it as the art passed by on local winding country roads. The judges felt that three paintings stood out above all the rest.
They chose “Cruisin and Racin,” an oil by Sarah Marshall Elliott, as the first-place winner. Doss stated that this painting captures intense movement, tension...