Utopia - 2026 ACF Regionals

Question

Ray Beamish accused an artist from this homeland of misattributing a painting which used very fine acrylic dots to represent a “Storm.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this Aboriginal homeland whose numerous artists included Kathleen Petyarre (“pet-YAR-uh”). Another artist from this homeland pounded green and yellow acrylic paint onto a canvas for her work Earth’s Creation.

ANSWER: Utopia

[10e] The Utopia art colony is located in this country, where Emily Kam Kngwarray (“in-GWAR-eye”) created “dump dump” paintings. “Dot painting” is often used by artists from this country’s displaced Aboriginal people.

ANSWER: Australia [or Commonwealth of Australia]

[10m] Kngwarray helped found a “Utopia Women’s Group” dedicated to this technique, which she worked with until 1988. Cloth is resist-dyed with wax in this technique, which originates from Indonesia.

ANSWER: batik

<EW, Painting and Sculpture>

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California (South)	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Canada	Main Site	Y	12	15.00	100%	50%	0%
Great Lakes	Main Site	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	9	11.11	100%	11%	0%
Northeast	Main Site	Y	6	16.67	100%	50%	17%
Overflow	Main Site	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%
UK	Main Site	Y	6	18.33	100%	83%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main Site	Y	8	17.50	100%	75%	0%

Data


Arizona State	UC Irvine	0	10	10	20
UCLA B	UCSD B	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD A	0	10	0	10
Western C	Brock	0	10	10	20
Waterloo B	Carleton University	0	10	0	10
Guelph	McGill A	0	10	10	20
McMaster B	Western A	0	10	0	10
Ottawa	Queen's	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	McGill B	0	10	0	10
UBC A	Toronto B	0	10	10	20
Toronto C	Toronto G	0	10	10	20
Toronto E	UBC B	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	Toronto F	0	10	0	10
Waterloo A	McMaster A	0	10	10	20
Western B	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
UCSD C	UC Santa Barbara	0	10	0	10
Ohio State B	CWRU A	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	Michigan A	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Pittsburgh	0	10	10	20
Ohio State C	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
Duke	Liberty B	0	10	0	10
North Carolina C	North Carolina A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina A	James Madison A	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	VCU	0	10	0	10
North Carolina B	Virginia Tech B	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	Virginia	0	10	0	10
William and Mary	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth B	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
MIT	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis B	Brown	0	10	0	10
Harvard A	Brandeis A	0	10	10	20
Harvard B	Southern Connecticut State	0	10	10	20
Yale	Dartmouth A	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Wake Forest	0	10	0	10
James Madison B	NC State A	0	10	0	10
Washington A	Washington B	0	10	10	20
Missouri B	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Missouri A	0	10	10	20
Bruin	Louisville B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Mississipi State	0	10	10	20
Louisville A	Sewanee	0	10	10	20
Alabama A	Tennessee A	0	10	10	20
Tennessee B	Alabama B	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	WashU A	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Vanderbilt B	0	10	10	20
Birmingham	Southampton A	0	10	10	20
Cardiff	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Manchester	Southampton B	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Edinburgh A	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Montpellier	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Catholic	0	10	10	20
Columbia A	Rutgers B	0	10	10	20
Columbia C	Columbia B	0	10	10	20
Rutgers A	John Jay	0	10	10	20
Maryland A	Johns Hopkins A	0	10	10	20
Maryland C	Johns Hopkins B	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	NYU C	0	10	0	10
Georgetown	NYU B	0	10	10	20