Non Word and Upward Award Winners

Our Nonword & Upward show was a great success.  Our juror had difficulty pairing down all of the submitted pieces and selecting our winners.  This year, our students were eligible for five show prizes (Best of Show – Honorable Mention) as well as three purchase prizes from the College’s President Art Commission, with the selected student work becoming a part of the college’s permanent collection.

Our winners this year are:

Best of Show:
Robby Sawyer
Homage to an Old Man

1st Place:
Kristine Morozink
Convergence, Foundation, Progress

2nd Place:
Hannah Mei Smith
On My Own

Honorable Mention:
Peter Thompson
Tear

Honorable Mention:
Laura Ketchum
Progression of Four Years in Visual Diaries

Purchase Prize:
Robby Sawyer
Homage to an Old Man

Purchase Prize:
Peter Thompson
Mannequin No. 1

Purchase Prize:
Chentell Stiritz
Time

 

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Wheaton professor Alan Jacobs offers a helpful overview of self-managed art careers, including the visual arts.

Non Word and Upward Student Juried Exhibition

Our upcoming Nonword & Upward show is a juried student exhibition open to all Wheaton College undergraduates.  Sponsored by the Wheaton Art Department and the Dick Blick Art Store in Danada, prize categories include best in show, students choice, as well as several purchase awards!

This years juror is Sun H. Choi, a Korean American artist who immigrated to the US in 1994. Choi  received her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of Art Institute of Chicago, and currently teaches at Gallery 37 as well as being president of the Chicago Korean American Artists Association.

Submissions for Nonword are due Monday, October 8th by 1PM and selections will be made by our juror thereafter. The show will be hung on the 9th and open from Oct 11 through Nov 3. Please contact the Art Department for more information regarding submission procedures if you are a Wheaton undergraduate student looking for more information.

We are looking forward to seeing all the submissions and sharing selected works and our winners with you once the exhibit is open!

Mark Your Calendars! Upcoming Art History Conference at Wheaton

Art Faculty featured in CIVA’s “SEEN” Publication

Christians in the Visual Arts | Issue XII:1 2012  | Face to Face Issue

Link to CIVA site to purchase this issue of “SEEN”: http://civa.3dcartstores.com/SEEN-Journal–Face-to-Face-Vol-XII1-2012_p_34.html

Link to article PDF:
art_faculty_article_CIVA.SEEN

 

Congratulations!

It’s officially the end of finals and that means a transition for students & faculty alike.

Congratulations and best wishes to all of our graduating Seniors! There is much to look back on and much to look forward to for each of them.

Here are a few images of our Commencement Exhibition – an exhibition celebrating the work of our Senior studio majors.

 

Alumnus featured in Elle Decor Magazine

Keeping up with the artistic lives and endeavors of our alumni is something we are working on, but every now and then we are fortunate enough to have something roll into our office without any digging. Cayce Zavaglia (’94) went on from Wheaton to Washington University in St. Louis to pursue her MFA and has stitched together  a wonderful and inspiring body of paintings since then. Her work deserves and requires a closer look for more reasons than one.  The presence of her subjects and the power of the images seems to defy both her material and her method – embroidery, or to be more specific, “renegade embroidery” as she likes to call it. With that, I leave you to read the Elle Decor article about Cayce and her unique, captivating and meticulously crafted work.  Click here and go to her “News” page, whereupon a link to the PDF file is available. We are excited to have learned of her work and hope that you are too!