Parkland Art Gallery Scholarship and Award Winners!

The Parkland Art Gallery proudly announces the scholarship and award winners of its 2013 Art and Design Student Juried Exhibition, on display in the gallery through May 4.

The exhibition comprises student pieces produced in Parkland Art and Design classes within the last year, featuring Photography, Painting, Drawing, Metals, Sculpture, Three-Dimensional Design, Two-Dimensional Design, Color Theory, and Ceramics course work. Members of Parkland’s art faculty selected exhibit works from approximately 300 submissions. Students, faculty, and the public can see the strength and quality of the artwork chosen, demonstrating tenacity and commitment, and revealing the development of critical thinking and visual perception.

During the exhibit reception held April 11, scholarships were presented to the following art and design students. The Underwood-Alger Art Scholarship was awarded to Arwen Sabas of Champaign; the Don Lake Art Scholarship, to Catherine Cruickshank of Urbana; the Robert Ralph Ford Memorial Scholarship, to Joseph Asselin of Champaign; and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship, to Ruta Rauber of Champaign.

Monetary awards presented included the Dr. David M. and Shirley A. Jones Student Art Award for work of outstanding artistic achievement, given to Jamie Hedrick (Rantoul); the Parkland President’s Award to Saeree Kim (Urbana); the Blair Kling Award to Melody Bilbo (Champaign); the Fine and Applied Arts Chair Award for Excellence to Megan Mercier (Mahomet); the Art and Design Faculty Award to Megan Hinds (Champaign); the Metals Award of Artistic Distinction to Eric Wildhagen (Champaign); and the Art Coop Award to Julia Galaway (Monticello).

Purchase awards for artwork to be included in the Parkland College Permanent Collection went to: Crystal Day (Gibson City), Drew Dunham (Monticello), Mark Jagodzinski (Champaign), Suzanne Lowry (Mahomet), and Elizabeth Neathery (DeLand). Abigail Eichstedt (Mahomet) received the Parkland College Library Purchase Award.

Merit Awards for outstanding work went to the following students: Taylor Braasch (Saybrook), Kam Yan Chan (Champaign), Donna Chapel (Champaign), Carmen Egolf (Savoy), Benji Frazzetto (Champaign), Colleen Freund (Champaign), Julia Galaway (Monticello), Cassandra Goethe (Mahomet), Nic Hansen (Champaign), Justin Novak (Urbana),  Eunsook Park (Champaign), Haedeun Park (Champaign), Ruta Rauber (Champaign), Viviane Rezende (Urbana), Erin Rogers (Sadorus), Karen Scott (Villa Grove), Al Tindle (Monticello), Bart Tredway  (Urbana), and Henry Wilkinson (Monticello).

Art and Design Student Exhibition Participants:

Bement:  Gary Price

Bondville:        Brittany Hardy

Champaign:     Muhammad Ahmad, Ray Arseneau, Joseph Asselin, Angela Barajas, Arrmia Benton, Melody Bilbo, Marilyn Blanzy-Myers, Kam Yan Chan, Donna Chapel, Haley Cox, Anthony Cutforth, Victor Feldman, Donald Ferguson, Rachel Flood, Divina Fourman, Benji Frazzetto, Colleen Freund, Joan Gary, Pavithran Golconda, Nicholas Hansen, Kelsey Heckman, Megan Hinds, Mark Jagodzinski, Linda R. Jordan, Rashmi Kapoor, Lauren Leohner, Jennifer Lewis, Clare Margiotta, Patricia Monigold, Eunsook Park, Haedeun Park, Ruta Rauber, Feby Riani, Arwen Sabas, Emily Sur, Sara Taber, Yang Tai, Joseph Talavera, Linda Weiner, Marilyn Wendler, Eric Wildhagen, and Travis Wiley.

Danville:          Kelly Acton

Decatur:          Daniel  Buckley

DeLand:          Elizabeth Neathery

Fairmount:      Chloe Vecellio

Gibson City:   Crystal Day

Mahomet:       Briana  Broihahn, Rich Crawford, Abigail Eichstedt, Cassandra Goethe, Suzanne Lowry, Ashleigh Martin, Megan Mercier, Angela Norman, Brittany Norman, Jeramy       Sides, June Volkening

Mansfield:       Katherine Baker

Milford:          Molly Murray

Monticello:     Drew Dunham, Julia Galaway, Makenzie Hryhorysak, Junsara King, Al Tindle, and Henry Wilkinson

Newman:         James Rigdon

Ogden:             Scott Hunter

Onarga:            Julio Gaytan

Pesotum:         Mara LaPayne, Madelyn Witruk

Philo:               Jessica Adrian

Rantoul:          Jamie Hedrick

Sadorus:          Erin Rogers

Saint Joseph:   Sylvia Eaton

Savoy:              Alex Danner, Margarita Dmitrieva, Carmen Egolf, Katrina Reed

Saybrook:        Taylor Braasch

Seymour:         Hannah Watson

Teutopolis:     Angela Worman

Tolono:           Stacey Kinney

Urbana:           Chang Bao, William Campo, Catherine Cruickshank, Michael Fuerst, Peter Garrett, Anisha Gupta, Sergio Juan Diego, Lori Kendall, Saeree Kim, Justin Novak, Carol Schmidt, Bart Tredway, HaNa Won, Viviane Rezende

Villa Grove: Karen Scott

White Heath:   Dillon Knapp