text: Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP) Announces Winners Calgary's Judy Anderson Wins the Salt Spring Prize: The "Joan McConnell Award" | Salt Spring Exchange
  Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP) Announces Winners Calgary's Judy Anderson Wins the Salt Spring Prize: The "Joan McConnell Award"
  By Salt Spring News Arts & Design	- October 24, 2017
  Judy Anderson's "This one brings me the most pride" takes home the top prize, while Salt Spring artists Garry Kaye and Peter McFarlane also take home awards…
  The winners of the second Salt Spring National Art Prize (SSNAP) have been announced with Calgary artist Judy Anderson winning the Salt Spring Prize for her work, "This one brings me the most pride". Local winners of note include Garry Kaye for the Alliance of Salt Spring Artists Award, along with a People's Choice Award and Peter McFarlane who was also selected for a People's Choice Award.
  The Salt Spring Prize went to Anderson for her mixed media work, hailed as a piece worthy of the National Gallery of Canada. The 3D installation, combined beads, moose hide, otter skin and a goalie mask and draws on Indigenous teachings, knowledge and ways of making to honour the people in her life, in particular her youngest son, Riel.
  SSNAP founding director, Ronald T. Crawford says the month-long SSNAP exhibition has showcased a diverse representation of what is relevant in Canadian art right now. "It's exciting to see emerging and established artists' works come together in one space." He adds, "What I discovered is artists embracing a diversity of materials in their artwork for this exhibition." In total, forty of the forty-nine finalists attended the show.
  WINNER | JUROR'S CHOICE AWARD – JUROR, DAVID GARNEAU – $2,000
  Jan Little, Kaleden, British Columbia, for "Jael Suddenly Found Herself With That Beard She'd Long Dreamt Of"