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Student Art and Writing Awards Announced

April 23, 2012

Student Writing Award Recipients
Annie Fraser receives SOTA Faculty Award
McMaster School of the Arts Professor Judy Major-Girardin presents Annie Fraser with the Faculty Award
Gord Bond receives Museum Award
Museum Director Carol Podedworny presents Gord Bond with the Museum Award
Emily Andrus receives People's Choice Award
McMaster SOTA Professor Judy Major-Girardin presents Emily Andrus with the People’s Choice Award

This weekend we celebrated another amazing graduating art student exhibition (aka the Summa show) at McMaster. Thank you to the more than 400 guests who joined us for the event and congratulations to everyone involved.

At the reception, five McMaster students received special recognition:

Art Student Awards
Three graduating art students received awards for their art work and accomplishments in McMaster’s Studio Art program.

McMaster School of the Arts Faculty Award:
Annie Fraser

Museum Award (Selected by MMA Curators):
Gord Bond

People’s Choice Award:
Emily Andrus

Student Writing Award Recipients

Writing Awards:
Inspired by Art

Two McMaster undergraduate students received awards for their submissions to the Museum’s new writing contest, Inspired by Art. Entries were inspired by exhibitions or specific works of art on view at the Museum during the last academic year.

Writing Award for poetry:
Robert Revington, Humanities
A Crewman’s Reflections on the View from the Ice in Cook’s Second Voyage
(based on art work in First Contact?: Artists of the Cook Voyages exhibition)

Writing Award for essay:
Brianna Smrke, Arts and Science
Élan Vital: A Strange Attractor (based on Ramona Ramlochand’s installation)
If you haven’t seen the Wise Up: summa 2012 exhibition yet, or couldn’t see the art for the people at the reception, come soon. It is on view until Saturday April 28.

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