A 2002 Gold Medal Winner in Sculpture from the California Art Club Gold Medal Juried Exhibition, Angie Whitson took the prize for "Swan Song for a Satyr". The work was shaped in terra cotta and then cast in bronze.

She began her art career as a painter, first studying at the Pasadena Museum of Art, now called the Norton Simon Museum, and then studying at California State University, Northridge. She worked in acrylics in a non-objective style, exploring the effects of color and light. Then in the 1970s, she enrolled at the Art League of Los Angeles, a move that changed the course of her career.

There she studied with Hal Reid and then worked with him for six years, becoming his studio assistant and model. He suggested she try ...