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74th Annual Student Art Competition Award Winners

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On Thursday, March 4, the Ewing Gallery of Art + Architecture announced the award recipients for the 74th Annual Student Art Exhibition. In its 74th year, the gallery’s exhibition is one of the longest running university student art competitions in the country. 

This year’s fine art jurors included alumnus T. Michael Martin, director of the Eagle Galleries at Murray State University, Hamlett Dobbins, faculty at the University of Memphis Department of Art, and Denise Woodward-Detrich, director of the Lee Galleries at Clemson University.

Graphic design entries were juried by Brock Lefferts, senior product designer for Wistia. 

Finally, art history papers were juried by Dr. Beth Lauritis, senior lecturer of art history at Clemson University.

Congratulations to the award recipients.

Prizewinning Art History Short Papers

  • Dille Award First Place — Noah Lagle

    Creative Destruction and Destructive Creation: Inspection of the gameboard and codex as paradigmatic containers

  • Dale Cleaver Award for Short Paper — Makayla Harmon

    Voyeurism, Violence, and Exploitation in Post-War America: Weegee’s Photography and Practices

  • Honorable Mention — Sarah Kenney

    Wonder, Surprise, Admiration in Designed Religious Space

Prizewinning Art History Long Papers

  • Dille Award First Place — Danqi Cai

    The Game of the Human Predicament

  • Dale Cleaver Award for Long Paper — Kay Leibowitz

    Comparative Analysis of Luca Signorelli’s The Damned Cast into Hell and Albrecht Dürer’s The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Prizewinning Architecture Papers

  • College of Architecture First Place Award — Gabriel Laos

    Palazzo Valmarana: An Unideal Ideal. The manifestation of ideals through technique on an irregular site

  • Gregor Kalas Award — Elizabeth Martinez

    Cosimo de Medici’s Villa di Castello: A Garden of Symbolic Power and Therapeutic Retreat

  • Honorable Mention — Faith Jackson

    The Juxtaposition of the Dragon and the Cross

  • Honorable Mention — Cat McDiarmid

    Göbekli Tepe: Interpreting Neolithic Architecture

Best Overall Paper

  • Gabriel Laos

    Palazzo Valmarana: An Unideal Ideal. The manifestation of ideals through technique on an irregular site

Graphic Design Award Winners

  • Juror’s Award — Michael Bloodworth

    Word Building, book design

  • Juror’s Award — Cadie Chapell

    March in the City, poster design

  • Juror’s Award — Elizabeth Ford

    Wind Curators

  • Juror’s Award — Jaylin Witherspoon

    This is Not New, lecture poster

  • Diane Fox Award for Graphic Design — Kennedy Davis

    Lecture Series Poster

  • Robin Easter Design Award — Allie Torres-Lopez

    No Human is Illegal, Ninguin Humano es Ilegal

  • Dille Award for Graphic Design — Abby Ramirez, Ashleigh Williams, Cooper Watson, Gabe Eckstein, Garrett Moser, Hailey Morash, Jacqueline Juneau, Joe Mitchell, Jua Im, Kailey Kear, Kennedy Davis, Madison Gabay, Matt Rightsell, Taylor McMickle

    Quarantine Alphabet Typography

Fine Art Award Winners

  • Jerry’s Artarama Award — Faith Belt

    Tapestry, acrylic paint, and colored pencil on canvas

  • Jurors Award — Sarah Bernstein

    Karen: (She is relatable; She is condescending, She is snarky, She is hysterical), audio

  • Tim Massey Award for Adventurous Concept — Koda Bowers

    #MeToo, screenprint book

  • UT Potters Award — Savannah Clay

    Untitled, ceramics

  • Jurors award — Mary Climes

    Pissing in the Wind, graphite on paper

  • Jerry’s Artarama Award — Muriel Condon

    Three Tiered, cast paper made from fad diet books, food dye, and found materials

  • Ewing Gallery Purchase Award — Ashley Ekstrum

    Breakfast, oil on canvas

  • Sculpture Award — Abigail Freed

    Yardcore, sod, latex paint, bailing twine

  • Jered + Christine Sprecher Award for Painting — Sean Heiser

    Migrator (Stupa II), acrylic and flashe on linen

  • Beauvais Lyons Printmaking Award — Chloe Hux

    Mother, lithography on Rives BFK

  • Jurors Award — Jua Im

    Untitled, photograph

  • Jurors Award — Tasha Lewis

    Breast Amphora, plaster, fabric, thread

  • Jurors Award for Studio Art — Conor McGrann

    There’s a System Here, collagraph

  • UT Potters Award — Amalia Mermingas

    Stelle II, slip and acrylic paint on ceramics

  • Kalas Purchase Prize — Averre Neff

    Rugby, oil on canvas

  • Knoxville Watercolor Society Award — Hannah Oakes

    Waiting on a Sunday Afternoon, ink and charcoal on paper

  • Juror’s Award for Moving Image — Kelly Olchawa

    Pierre’s Wares, stop motion animation

  • Dille Award Best Undergraduate — Wesley Roden

    The Herd, oil on paper

  • Dille Award Best Graduate — Lilly Saywitz

    Red Sun over Babel, oil on canvas

  • Juror’s Award – Marlannie Stiles

    Resting Place, documentation of sculpture

  • Ewing Gallery Purchase Prize – Haley Takahashi

    Burn, lithograph and screenprint with embossing

  • Student Union Purchase Award — Erin Wohletz

    Green Thumb, mezzotint, lithograph, and screenprint