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            When Lane Raiser, art professor at Shawnee State University, enters a competition, he wins. His latest victory was a gold medal and $1,000 from the Ohio Watercolor Society’s 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition with his watercolor, “Seed Faith.”
            Artists from several states competed in the juried show. His painting is one of a series he is doing where ice is his inspiration. Raiser had never entered any shows until last year and he has sold every painting he has ever done since he was in art school except for the two that are in shows right now.
            “Seed Faith” is at the Troy-Hayner Cultural Center in Troy, Ohio, and it will be in a tour to several cities around the state until May 2010.
            “We are very fortunate to have Lane here at Shawnee,” said Matt Cram, art professor at SSU. “He is one of the top watercolor artists in the country.”
            His painting, “Axis Mundi,” was a first place winner in a New York show last year, a gold medal winner in the Ohio Watercolor Society show last year and winner in a national show. The painting has been an award winner in every show entered since New York City. The painting was delivered to Louisville recently for another juried national exhibition coming up this fall.
            “I’m working on another new ice-based image in my studio at home, but with the start-up of another semester, studio time in the near future is pretty limited,” Raiser said. “I’d really like to have that new work ready to show by spring.

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Lane Raiser, art professor at Shawnee State University, holds a photo of his latest painting, “Seed Faith,” that won a gold medal in the Ohio Watercolor Society’s 32nd Annual Juried Exhibition that opened on Saturday, Aug. 29.