Friday, March 6, 2009 9:47 PM CST
All-Student Show and art department awards announced
The Eastern Illinois University Art Department has announced the recipients of the 2009 All-Student Show awards and the 2009 departmental awards. The recipients were recognized at an awards reception held Sunday at the Tarble Arts Center on the EIU campus.
The 2009 All-Student Show jury panel designated the exhibition awards. The Best of Show went to Megan Morrison (Hoffman Estates) for the monoprint “The Sweater Meat.” Meagan Geiger-Powell (Fox River Grove) received the Heyduck Ceramics Award for her vase “Blue Moon.” The Knoop Sculpture Award was presented to Lauren Curta (Downers Grove) for “That One Summer,” a plywood relief.
Merit Awards by media, as selected by the jurors, were given to: Scott Barber (Mattoon), “Self Portrait,” painting; Kathy Bryant (Charleston), “Motion in Color,” fibers; Amy Caltry (Charleston), “Umber Still-Life,” drawing; Matt Davis (Bethany), “Emma’s Note,” digital art; Christina Doti (Terre Haute), “Untitled 4,” graphic design; Kristy Hughes (Mattoon), “Lonely Train Ride,” printmaking; Ben Hughes (Round Lake), “1 of 3,” sculpture; Myles Hundley (Charleston), “Design Symposium,” electronic media; Brandon Schawel (Mundelein), “Wood Vessel,” ceramics; Nick Walk (Sigel), “The Unknown Room,” design; and Sean Walker (Vandalia), “Hearing Aid,” metals.
Honorable Mention Awards went to: Kristy Goeckner (Bishop Creek) for an untitled photograph and for the intaglio “Wanted: For a Lifetime Supply of Milk”; Jamie Kemp (Chatham), for the oil painting “Antiques”; and Chad Whitfield (Seymour), for the computer-based graphics “Whitfield Interactive Portfolio.”
Award recipients designated by the art department faculty were the: Paul T. Sargent Award and Calvin Countryman Award, Candace Manning (Palos Park); Irene Couchman Buzzard Scholarship, Lauren Curta; Paul Rand Award, Chad Whitfield; Graphic Design Recognition Awards, Daniel Hauswald and Christina Doti; and Susan Stephens Memorial Award, Kathryn Coulter (Champaign).
Outstanding Senior Awards went to: Art Education, Amanda Mullison (Carbondale); Graphic Design, Christopher Bierman; Studio 3-D, Lauren Curta; and Studio 2-D, Nickolas Wood (Decatur).
The exhibition announcement card was designed by Michael Caifano (Chicago).
Also represented in the exhibition are: Alex Barrie (McHenry), Kaitlyn Battey (Minooka), Sandra Baumgartner (Charleston), Taylor Bennett (Decatur), Chris Bierman (Effingham), Jacob Blum (Troy), Rachel Burklund (Paxton), Michael Caifano, Emily Colclasure (Roseville), Morgan Compton (Nokomis), Kathryn Coulter (Champaign), Yosha Dasenbrock (Newton), Clarissa Domek (Naperville), Suzanne Drake (Mt. Vernon), Alice Ellsworth (Clinton), Nora French (Mokena), Sarah Gillespie (Newton), James Andrew Hancock (Morton Grove), Aubrey Harper (Louisville), Samantha Hatz (Schaumburg), Daniel Hauswald (Wheeling), Courtney Heinzmann (Metamora), Ellen Herget (Jacksonville), Jillian Hohenadel (Chicago), Christina Keniley-Browning (Mattoon), Cody Kline (Leroy), Jenny Kovacik (Mattoon), Angela Lesak (Alvin), Dennis Lewis (Champaign), Leah Littleton (Round Lake), Alex Lugo (Hoopeston), Candace Manning, Mary McKeating (Evergreen Park), Crystal Means (Oakley), Danielle Meyer (Sugar Grove), Jessica C. Morrison (Downer’s Grove), Nathan Motsinger (Highland), Kyla Nance (Dark Forest). Priscilla Owiredu (Chicago), Breann Pleasant (Robinson), Eric Rusk (Hoffman Estates), Meghan Ryan (Algonquin), Melissa Schaefer (Lombard), Raven Smith (Chicago), Erica Spencer (Chicago), Kyle Tonn (Charleston), Sarah Tully (Plainfield), Elizabeth Turrisi (Joliet), Kristine Weidenhoefer (Orland Park), Ian Winston (Champaign) and Julianna Yiola-Vega (Palos Heights).
Students at Eastern who had taken at least one undergraduate studio art course during the academic year were eligible to enter the All-Student Show competition. The jury panel selected 112 works for the exhibition out of 342 entries. Represented are 68 students out of the 109 who entered.
Serving as jurors were: Denise Seif, Parkland College (Champaign); Michael Kroeger, College of Mount St. Joseph (Cincinnati); and William Scarlato, Benedictine University (Lisle).
The 2009 All-Student Show will remain on exhibition through March 29 at the Tarble Arts Center. Admission is free and the public is invited. The center will be closed on March 15 and 17 for the annual systems check.
The Tarble Arts Center is located on Ninth Street at Cleveland Avenue on the EIU campus in Charleston. Open hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, and 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday; closed Mondays. For information call 581-ARTS (-2787) or e-mail tarble@eiu.edu.
A division of Eastern’s College of Arts & Humanities, the Tarble Arts Center is funded in part by the Tarble Arts Center Fund/EIU Foundation, Tarble Arts Center membership contributions, and by the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.
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