Eastern Illinois University students to receive awards for the 2011 Undergraduate All-Student Show and honors selected by the Art Department faculty will be announced at a public awards reception 2-4pm on Sunday, February 27, at the Tarble Arts Center. The awards presentation begins at 2:30pm. Admission is free and the public is invited. The All-Student Show will remain on exhibition at the Tarble through March 27.
A panel of jurors chose the art for the exhibition and the recipients of the Best-of-Show award, the Sarah Wozencraft Cox Two-Dimensional Award, the Bill Heyduck Ceramics Award, the Carey Knoop Sculpture Award, and the Merit Awards by media -- ceramics, design, digital art, drawing, fibers, graphic design-animation, graphic design-printed, jewelry/metals, painting, printmaking, and sculpture. The award winners were selected from the artworks chosen for the exhibition by the jurors. A total of 307 entries were submitted by 91 students.
Additional awards and recognitions to be announced were selected by the EIU Art faculty. These include the Chairman’s Award, Paul T. Sargent Award, Calvin Countryman Award, Paul Rand Award, Graphic Design Recognition Award, Susan Stephens Memorial Award, Irene Couchman Buzzard Scholarship, June Krutza Art Scholarship, Miranda Rice Weiss Art History Scholarship, and Outstanding Senior Award. These awards are made possible by donors to the EIU Foundation.
The Undergraduate All-Student Show is open to all undergraduate students at Eastern who have taken at least one studio art course since last June. Art in media representing the various studio and graphic design areas taught through the EIU Art Department are presented in this competitive exhibition. A complete listing of students represented in the exhibition will be released after the awards are announced.
The juror panel was made up of visual arts professionals from outside EIU: metals/jewelry artist Alan T. Mette, Executive Associate Director for the School of Art + Design at the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign; painter Joan Stolz, associate professor of art at Parkland College; and Samantha Tableriou, senior graphic designer for Taylor Studios in Rantoul, IL.
This program is co-sponsored with the EIU Art Department. For information contact the Tarble Arts Center at 217-581-ARTS (-2787) or [email protected].
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