Untitled, drypoint etching with gouache. Faculty honored Jackie Lanning for her body of work, which includes interest in art and anthropology. She utilizes printmaking, video (new media), sculpture, and installation. Jackie's explorations are evolving and are increasingly more personal and unique.
Lear Award for Sculpture and Ceramics Angelique Kopacz, Love Always; concrete, paper and wax. Angelique's exploration of the concept of bridge reflects the deeply personal and metaphoric responses in her work. She created an installation of separated geodes where stacks of private notes become precious crystals, vulnerable and exposed.
Lear Honorable Mention Trish Grow, Icarus (amnesty). The Icarus project, as does much of her work, uses her strengths in both visual and word images. In amnesty, she marries these dualities through fragmentation, both of the body and the wings, with mounting pins. Trish is an English major, waiting for the art minor to appear... .
Lear Award for Photography Gloria Huang, Untitled. Gloria used the concept of the quick random shot along with the use of light to create this image and moves the concept of a photograph in new directions — not about recording the information but creating with it.
North Pole, etching on copper plate with digital images. Jackie Lanning developed this piece for her undergraduate research project, which married her art major and anthropology minor. She studied in Norway, working with international experts documenting the early exploration of the world's northernmost archipelago, Franz Josef Land.
Untitled, silk screen on ceramic. Art major Hailey Salamone, who works full time as a silk screener, combines new processes with known to create work that inspires her classmates and professors.
Altered Memories, etching with hand coloring. Jackie Lanning's pieces reference family history, polar exploration, place, and how one responds to and arranges memory.
Untitled, installation with video/new media. Hailey Salamone's work consistently challenges preconceived ideas and inspires viewers to see themselves in a way that often feels uncomfortable or disorienting.
Maria Vasilovski, Printmaking Maria has developed work that highlights her magnificent abilities working with pattern and color. She is a junior focusing on two-dimensional art, namely printmaking and painting. This year she has worked tirelessly producing a series of linoleum prints that have opened up a myriad of possibilities for producing images. These works focus on formal concerns that have provided a seemingly limitless resource for her to examine endless combinations and sequences resulting in a stunning series of related works.
