Editor’s Note: Day 9 of The Selective Echo’s coverage of the Utah Arts Festival features award winners for the artists’ marketplace, the IronPen competitions, and the Art Attack 5K run. Later today, the 11 awards of the Fear No Film portion of the festival will be announced including the Grand Jury prize, three honorable mentions, and the winning film in each of the categories.

DID YOU KNOW? Ruthie Foster and Deborah Coleman will highlight Women and Blues Night at the closing concert on the amphitheater stage today, beginning at 8:30 p.m.

Four artists received Best in Show honors, which means they will be automatically invited to the 2010 Utah Arts Festival and will have their booth fees waived. The winners are:

Dwight and Regina Masak, ceramics, Pocatello, ID. For more details, visit here.

Cat Palmer, 2-D mixed, Washington Terrace, UT. For more details, visit here.

Julie Stutznegger, glass, Salt Lake City. For more details, visit here.

Richard Turner/Eric Carrroll, sculpture, Newton, KS. For more details, visit here.

Four other artists were given Awards of Merit, which means they are automatically invited to the 2010 Utah Arts Festival without having to submit to the jury selection process. The artists are: Fred Conlon (Salt Lake City), metalwork; Marilyn and Chris Sunderland (Riverton, UT), 3-D mixed media; Lisa Telling-Kattenbraker (Olympia, WA), fiber, and King Wu (Bothell, WA), photography.

Winners in the Wasatch IronPen and Ultra IronPen competitions with the Salt Lake Community College’s Community Writing Center:

Ultra IronPen:

ADULT – Logan Campbell: “Tlaloc’s Sink of Souls” (fiction); “Wimpy Waterballooner” (nonfiction); “Learning to Sleep” (poetry).

YOUTH – Dixon Li: “Alice, Because of a Leaky Faucet” (fiction); “Sticky Water” (nonfiction); “Ode to Wasatch IronPen” (poetry).

HONORABLE MENTION (ADULT) – Joel Ramey: “Fed Up” (fiction); “A Leak in Time or How We Came to the Decision to Remodel Our Kitchen” (nonfiction); “Melodious Percussive Obsession” (poetry).

IronPen:

FICTION:

Youth – Veronika Belova, “A Safe Haven”
Adult – Richard G. Scharine, “Last Job”
Honorable Mention (adult) – Marie Mischel, “How to Fix a Leaky Faucet”

NONFICTION:

Adult – Tifanie D. Spencer, “A New Sense of Reason”
Honorable Mention (adult) – Cecily Light, “Water Water Everywhere”

POETRY:

Adult – José Luis Otero, “Taste the Water”

Winners in the 16th Annual Sports Medicine Center of Utah Art Attack 5K:

Kids Art Attack 1K:

BOYS – Dillon Clark (05.43.96)
GIRLS – Hailee Hansen (06.56.86)

Art Attack 5K

MEN – Albert Wint (16:38.69)
WOMEN – Melissa Hayman (21:02.93)