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About Our 2025 Judge: Olena Babak

Back for a 2nd year! Our esteemed judge for Professional Artists Group at the 2025 Perkins Cove Plain Air Event is Olena Babek

Olena Babak is an award-winning, classically trained artist, whose landscapes and figurative works can be found in galleries, public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Some of her selected awards: Best of Show in Tilghman and St. Michaels, Easton Plein Air, Best Marine Cape Ann Plein Air, Artists Choice Plein Air Richmond, 1st place Quick Draw & People’s Choice Award Finger Lakes Plein Air, Best Representation of Rockies National Park, 1st place Booth Bay Plein Air and many others.

Her work has been featured in “Plein Air Magazine”, the “Poet’s and Artist’s: 100 Great Drawings,” and the “Classicist” as well as “Strokes of Genius” series.

Visit Olena Babak’s Website

And our esteemed judge for the Amateur Artists Group at the 2025 Perkins Cove Plain Air Event is John Caggiano

Olena Babak is an award-winning, classically trained artist, whose landscapes and figurative works can be found in galleries, public and private collections in the U.S. and abroad.

Some of her selected awards: Best of Show in Tilghman and St. Michaels, Easton Plein Air, Best Marine Cape Ann Plein Air, Artists Choice Plein Air Richmond, 1st place Quick Draw & People’s Choice Award Finger Lakes Plein Air, Best Representation of Rockies National Park, 1st place Booth Bay Plein Air and many others.

Her work has been featured in “Plein Air Magazine”, the “Poet’s and Artist’s: 100 Great Drawings,” and the “Classicist” as well as “Strokes of Genius” series.

Visit John Caggiano’s Website

2025Event: The 5th Annual Plein Air Event will showcased more than 100 plein air painters

This year artists will compete for a combined $9000 in prizes!

The 2025 PRIZE CATEGORIES:

Professionals: 1st Place, 2nd Place & 3rd Place, and Amateurs: 1st Place, 2nd Place & 3rd Place. And, new this year some special additional prize categories.

Professional Division Awards

• 1^st place $2000.
• 2^nd place $1500.
• 3^rd place $1000.

Amateur Division Awards

• 1^st place $750.
• 2^nd place $500.
• 3^rd place $300.

PLUS a special amateur award will be given: the David Lussier Gallery of Excellence Award for $250.

New Award Categories for 2025:

Best use of Light $1,000. Best Depiction of Marginal Way Celebrating the 100^th year of the Marginal Way – $1,000, Quintessential Perkins Cove – $500, and a Future Generation Prize – which encourages younger artists to participate. $200.