2018 ODCCA to Include Palm Frond Purchase Award Contests - Complete Rules Posted

The complete set of rules for all of the competitive divisions for 2018, have been posted to the ODCCA's website.

New for 2018 are the Palm Frond Purchase Award Contests both Decorative and Decoy divisions included! These contests are sponsored by Doug & Ellen Miller, with prize money totalling $5700!

Bob Sutton, IWCA's founder, and the one who brought palm frond carving to the competition, would be proud to see the popularity of the Palm Frond divisions grow amongst the best competitions in the world.

2018 ODCCA Complete Rules

IWCA
Tom and Darlene Westbrock Retire from IWCA Board of Directors

In 2006, Tom Westbrock was elected Treasurer of the IWCA and has served in the position for 11 years.

Tom's wife, Darlene has filled in for the Secretary for the IWCA, taking and publishing minutes from the annual board meetings when the secretary could not attend, and also served as Ballot Clerk during the 2008 election at the annual board meeting.

In 2012, Darlene graciously stepped up to take over the membership portion of the Secretary's job, knowing the burden it would have on the newly elected Secretary. Darlene has managed the memberships (individual and affiliate) for five years.

Tom and Darlene became lifetime members of the IWCA in 1990 as wildfowl carvers. Over the years, their wildfowl carvings have won numerous awards at the many IWCA Afffilate Shows and the Ward World Championship.

We at the IWCA will miss having Tom and Darlene on the IWCA Board of Directors, and we look forward to seeing them and their wildfowl carvings at the IWCA Affiliate Member Shows in the future. The IWCA is grateful for the many years these two wonderful people have dedicated as volunteers to the IWCA and we wish them well in their retirement!

Tom and Darlene Westbrock - IWCA Awards of Appreciation - Presented on behalf of the IWCA by Brad Snodgrass at the 2017 Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show in Vancounver, WA The IWCA is still looking to the positions of "Treasurer" and "Membership Chair". If you feel you could fill either position, or know of someone who can, please contact our President Monty Willis, and he can fill you in on the details! 

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Announcing the IWCA President's Wildfowl Carver of the Week - Colin Everett

Just in from our President Monty Willis:

"Colin you might not know who I am, but today I am naming you my Carver of the Week, Monty Willis, President of the International Wildfowl Carvers Association! Please have your Grandfather give us your last name and congratulations on becoming this weeks wildfowl carver!"

Gene Everett teamed up with his 11 year old Grandson to carve this decoy for donation...

"My Grandson and I teamed up on this Scaup. Colin is 11, I carved the head and he did the body. He painted 90% and I painted a few of the finer details. The decoy is being donated to a youth waterfowl event as an auction item to support their effort."

Colin Everett - IWCA President's Wildfowl Carver of the Week

Colin Everett - IWCA President's Wildfowl Carver of the Week

Colin Everett - IWCA President's Wildfowl Carver of the Week

CONGRATULATIONS Colin! From all of us at the International Wildfowl Carvers Association!

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2017 IWCA Working Decoy Championship Results Posted

The 2017 IWCA Working Decoy Championship held in Vancouver, WA on September 10th at the Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show have been posted. Best of Show images to follow shortly...

Congratulations to the 2017 Champions of the IWCA Working Decoy Division!

1st Best of Show - Tom Matus - Kuna, ID - Common Merganser Hen

2nd Best of Show - David Luoma - Tallamook, OR - Cormorant

3rd Best of Show - Tom Matus - Kuna, ID - Gadwall Hen

The complete results can be viewed by clicking the link below...

2017 IWCA Working Decoy Championship Results (Complete)

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2017 IWCA Working Decoy Championship - September 9 & 10 - Vancouver, WA

The Columbia Flyway Wildlife Show will be host to the 2017 IWCA Working Decoy Championship on September 9 & 10 in Vancounver, Washington. We hope to see you and your entries at the show!

 Date: September 9-10, 2017
Location: Vancouver, Washington

 

1st Best of Show - $200 ~ 2nd Best of Show - $100 ~ 3rd Best of Show - $50

Contact: Don Baiar ~ E-Mail: dbaiar@comcast.net

Mail-in entries will be accepted.

More details can be found at their website: http://columbiaflywaywildlifeshow.com/

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PRESS RELEASE - 2017 IWCA Style Decoy Championship - 06/24/2017

The International Wildfowl Carvers Association Announces the 2017 Style Decoy Championship at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center Harkers Island, N.C.

Press Release Date: May 5, 2017

- The International Wildfowl Carvers Association (I.W.C.A.) will hold its 2017 Style Decoy Championship, hosted by the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center and the Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild, on June 24, 2017 at 2:00 P.M.

 

This contemporary duck decoy competition celebrates the “Art of the Decoy” through works by the finest artists in the decoy carving today. Visitors will be able to see and ask questions about one of the oldest functional art forms still practiced in the United States at this free event.

Details regarding how to enter the competition are available at IWFCA.com or via email at pamdmorris@coresound.com.

“The International Wildfowl Carvers Association is excited the 2017 IWCA Style Decoy Championship Competition is being held at the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center. I want to encourage our carvers to participate in making this year’s competition one to remember!” – Monty Willis, President, IWCA

- Two additional duck decoy based competitions are slated to happen the same day, June 24, 2017: the 11th Annual Kent Hood Memorial Core Sound Hunting Rig of Six and the Kent Hood Foundation Superior Craftsmanship Carving Competition. Hunting Rigs consist of six decoys made by one or more individuals and are floated in Back Sound. The Superior Craftsmanship competitors will carve a decoy using hand tools only to be judged when the time limit expires. Details regarding how to enter these competitions are available at CORESOUND.com, DECOYGUILD.com or via email at pamdmorris@coresound.com.

Rules & Registration Forms

Download 2017 IWCA Style Decoy Information/Rules.PDF

Download 2017 IWCA Style Decoy Registration Form .PDF

“This Core Sound Hunting Rig of Six was organized to be a fun event and to show different styles of working decoys from across the country. So team up and get a rig together for the biggest, most fun rig contest in the country. Good luck to all!” - Bob Sutton, original organizer of the Rig of Six.

Contact: Pam Morris
Core sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center
1785 Island Road
Harkers Island, NC 28531
252.728.1500 x25
pamdmorris@coresound.com

- The International Wildfowl Carvers Association, better known as IWCA, is the outgrowth of a group of carvers from all parts of the country who met in 1986 to find a way to establish competition rules and procedures that would be uniformly fair for all carvers. The organization was officially formed in 1988 with a mission to promote development of wildlife art and the uniquely American art of the decoy.

- The mission of the Core Sound Waterfowl Museum & Heritage Center is to establish a facility that will enhance the community, state and region by creating a resource which brings together the historical, cultural, artistic, environmental, and educational elements needed to preserve the rich waterfowl heritage of eastern North Carolina associated with the Core Sound area.

- The Core Sound Decoy Carvers Guild’ mission is to safeguard and preserve the memory of those pioneers who helped define the Core Sound decoy carving heritage by offering an honest view of the past, while increasing awareness and appreciation of waterfowl, and providing demonstrations and workshops so that the decoy carving heritage will continue on to the next generation.

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Byrn Watson, July 18, 1934 to February 19, 2017

Byrn Watson, President of the IWCA from 2006 to 2012, passed away peacefully on the morning of February 19, 2017 after a short illness.

Byrn, and his wife JoAnne, joined Bob Sutton in the early days of the IWCA to assist in the administrative side.  A staunch supporter of the association he dedicated many hours to furthering the art of wildfowl carving and was always trying to find new ways to promote it.

For many years he was closely involved in the organization and funding of the California Open Show, and in more recent years – after their move from California to Washington State – with the Columbia Flyway Show.

There will be a Celebration of Life for Byrn on Sunday, April 9th at 3:00PM at Jackson Prairie Church in South Chehalis, WA.

Our thoughts are with JoAnne and their family at this time.

 

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2017 IWCA Shorebird Decoy Championship March 11th - Strongsville, OH

The IWCA Shorebird Championship will be hosted by the Ohio Decoy Collectors & Carvers Association (ODCCA) at their annual event in Strongsville, Ohio on March 11-12, 2017.

The ODCCA divisions include IWCA Floating Decorative, IWCA Style Decoy, IWCA Shorebird Championship, Working Shorebird/Silhouette, "It Ain't Vintage Yet", Cocktail Bird, Rest of the Marsh & Miniatures, Ward World Youth Silhouettes, Dove Decoy, Fish Decoy, Decorative Fish, Jigging Sticks in Ballroom, and much more!

Mail-ins will be accepted until Monday March 6th.

 

You can learn more and download entry forms on their website:

http://ODCCA.net        

Hope to see you there!

IWCA
PSWA California Open - Letter from the President - Gary De Cew

Please join us in thanking the PSWA California Open, IWCA Affiliate member organization, for their years of dedication. We wish the best to their organization, in their goal to discover grants and funding to bring back the show in the next few years. February 18-19, 2017 will be the 44th and final show until which time funding is secured for future events... Thank you PSWA!


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PSWA California Open - 2017's First IWCA Affiliate Show - February 18 - 19

The PSWA California Open will be held on February 18-19th in San Diego California in San Diego, California.

Click Here for the 2017 Show Brochure

The 2016 IWCA Decorative Carver of the Year Awards will be presented at the PSWA California Open Reception & Auction on Saturday, February 19th, 2017. http://PSWA.net

There's still time to make arrangements to attend, or to send in your entries!

Hope to see you there!

IWCA
2017 IWCA Rules Booklet & Brochure - Now Available

The IWCA is proud to announce a complete line-up of IWCA Championship events for 2017, as well as a new division; IWCA Working Shorebird Division, and a new Affiliate Member Show; Wisconsin Waterfowl Association’s Decoy Carving Competition and Exhibition holding thier fist competition in Stevens Point, WI in September.

There were also changes made to the rules, so it will be important for all competitors, and judges to thoroughly read the rules to insure there are no last minute surprises.

In 2017 the IWCA will offer these events at various IWCA Affiliate Member Shows:

  • IWCA Style Decoy Championship - June - Harkers Island, NC
  • IWCA Style Shorebird Championship - March - Strongsville, OH
  • IWCA Working Decoy Championship - September - Vancouver, WA
  • IWCA Canvas Decoy Championship - December - Harkers Island, NC
  • IWCA Young Guns Championship - December - Harkers Island, NC
  • IWCA Decorative Carver of the Year (Intermediate & Novice)

For those who do not want to wait for their copy of the 2017 Rules Booklet, you may download the complete rules booklet and show brochure listing all of the IWCA event dates and locations, as well as the new version of the rules for 2017.

Click Here to Read the 2017 IWCA Rules Online

Click Here to Download the 2017 IWCA Rules Brochure and Booklet in a printable .PDF format

We look forward to seeing you in 2017!

IWCA
2016 IWCA Decorative Carver of the Year Winners Announcement

Congratulations to all of the decorative wildfowl carvers who stepped up to the challenge of the 2016 IWCA Decorative Carver of the Year Contest at both the Intermediate and Novice levels.

In the Intermediate level, Randy Hansen topped of the year with 470 points for 1st place, 2nd Place went to Hank Wurgler with 310 points, and 3rd place goes to Maxine Brown with 135 points.

At the Novice level, Bill Strickler achieved 130 points for 1st place, Lisa Strang and Dick Stern tied with 115 points for 2nd place. 

Click Here for the complete final results.

The 2017 IWCA Decorative Carver of the Year Awards will be presented at the PSWA California Open Reception & Auction on Saturday, February 11th, 2017. http://PSWA.net
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