Students delight over Tarble exhibit

By: Joaquin Ochoa

Posted: 3/10/05

The Tarble Art Center's walls are once again peppered with student art.

The All-Student Art Show was unveiled for the two-hour award reception held March 6, which served primarily to honor students who exhibited and won the coveted yearly awards.

Art education professor Patricia Belleville said 83 student artists' works were on display for the yearly All-Student Art Show exhibit, which has been on display in Tarble since 1982.

Belleville, who was responsible for finding jurors for the show said the art show is unique. "It really doesn't reflect who the department thinks is best. For one, [students] have to choose to enter. The students have to choose to use it. It's really more like a national show that the students as artists would choose to enter."

Many students took that option, entering a total of 377 pieces the show-a record number, said Belleville. The art offered a wide array of media and talent; and included painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, metals, ceramics, fibers, graphic design, 2-D and 3-D design, computer animation, digital prints, and photography.

"I think the faculty is encouraging the students to do it, I know I encourage the students to do it in my class," Belleville said. "If they want to be a working artist, they have to exhibit. This is a nice chance to start exhibiting their work or learn how to enter work in shows."

Students were honored with juried awards, which include merit awards and honorable mentions, but they are also recognized for their work by the art department. The Chairman Award, which is given to senior who has demonstrated exceptional abilities as a visual artists is just one of these.

"The faculty itself views the work and the faculty actually vote and agree on who gets the award. But in order to be eligible, the student has to exhibited in the All-Student show," said Belleville. "Not only does the faculty have to think it's exceptional, but the jurors have to also think it exceptional enough to be entered in the student show."

Logan Hamilton, winner of the Chairman Award, said he was pleasantly surprised the award and added that the show is a big one for art majors.

The award ceremony was attended by a lot of students, said Hamilton, a senior art education major, who added, "It was a very nice show. There are a lot of talented students in the art department."

Belleville said "It's really spectacular, we're just always amazed with what the students are doing each year. And how wonderful it looks all hung up. I think our art students do a wonderful job."

The exhibit will be on display at Tarble Arts Center through March 26.

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This year's winners as chosen by the All-Student Show jury panel.

Best of Show: Adam Dupuis for Mount Bushmore, painting.

Heyduck Ceramic Award: Logan Hamilton for Mechanical Vessel.

Knoop Sculpture Award show: Ryan McClure for the mixed media installation Untitled.

Merit awards, selected by media category, were presented to the following student artists: Ceramics-Ryan McClure, Landscape; Design-Emerald Elkins, Serendipitous Sequence; Digital Art-Scott Aigner, Blueprint 1 Variation; Drawing-Samantha Tableriou, Untitled Nude; Electronic Media-Aaron Ganci, Ideas Matter (Black on White); Fibers-Mandy Way, Woven Earth; Graphic Design-Aaron Skidis, Definition of Spin; Jewelry/Metals-Logan Hamilton, YKK; Painting-Adam Dupuis, Eminentis Morbus; Printmaking-Nicole Ponce, Koi Study; and Sculpture-Derek Clem, Father and Son.

Honorable Mention awards were given to: Natalie Matten (Rantoul)-Stretched (mixed media painting); Scott Aigner-Laurence Tureaud (print on steel); Rebecca Hitchcock (Elmhurst)-Found Object Brooch (metals); Aaron Skidis-Design Symposium Bauhaus (graphic design); and Coleten Meyer-DSL Series (graphic design).

In addition to awards designated by the All-Student Show jurors, the Art Department faculty also selected students for awards and recognitions. This year the students receiving departmental awards were: Paul Rand Award-Joseph Copley, Irene Couchman Buzzard Award-Dianne Frank, Susan Stephens Memorial Award-Aaron Ganci and Alexander Nicol, 3-D Studio Area Award-Logan Hamilton, Graphic Design Recognition Award-Danielle Herman, and Michael Rauch, Art Education Area Award-Penny Hess, 2-D Studio Area Award-Nicole Ponce, Graphic Design Area Award-Erin Kowalski, Paul Sargent Award-Jessica Robers, Art History Area Award-Amanda Rose Vickery, and Calvin Countryman Award-Katie Voegel Sullivan.