Winning $25,000 is great. But winning $25,000 for black velvet paintings is even better.

A panel of jurors recently awarded Tony Shore, an unassuming South Baltimore native, the 2007 Janet & Walter Sondheim Artscape Prize for his acrylics on black velvet ? an unforgiving medium with a reputation.

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