2013 SWIC Student Show Award Winners

Congratulations to all of the students exhibited in the show! Below, see the award winners of the 2013 SWIC Student Show.

American Frame Award Stehn Soderman “Raccoon and Turtle Trinity”

SWIC Art Club Award Eleni Braswell “Lighthouse”

Art Book Award Wes Southerland “Untitled”

The Noisivelvet Award Victoria Martinez “Redemption”

Visual Arts Committee Award Zachary Lassen “Still Life”

Art Book Award Carey Mims “Color and Shape of Space”

SWIC Art Club Award Cheyne Carroll “Great Escape”

The Dean’s Award & Presidential Purchase Award Hannah Bernardini “I Want to be the Queen”

Sam & Maetta Gray Art Award Kvin Feuerhelm “Distorted Figure”

Sam & Maetta Gray Art Award Mary Ann Tutka “Mississippi River Front”

Gateway East Artist Guild Award Kristin Zimmerman “Porcelain”

Visual Arts Committee Award Sarah Sparks “The Lone Rooster”

Midwest Salute to the Arts Festival Committee Stephanie Cuvar “How to Bear a Crown of Hair”

Gateway East Artist Guild Award Samantha Kalika “Grandma”

SWIC Adjunct Faculty Union Award Anita Arnold “Harmony of Light and Dark”

SWIC Art Club Award Chelsea Curten “Burning Yesterday”

Presidential Purchase Award Emily Matthews “Let Them Eat Cake”

Visual Arts Committee Award & Presidential Purchase Award Betty Horschler “Heartbeat”

SWIC Art Club Award Mary Bernal “Mirage”

Art Book Award Bradley Diemert “Origins”

Artisan Guild of Southern Illinois Award Arielle Magner “Consolidate”

Kellerman Memorial Award Mary Rhein “Twisted”

Krueger Pottery Award Leslie Brierly “Afternoon Delight”

Artisan Guild of Southern Illinois Laurie Mueller-Bevirt “Sentry”

Kiwanis Club Award Jonathan Schellhardt “Heliocogeos”

Doug & Darlene Eskra Purchase Award Jake Coyne “Persona”

Art Book Award Connie Furhman “La Guajira, Columbia”

Midwest Salute to the Arts Festival Committee Don Fizer “Twist”

Art Book Award Dustin Bradshaw “Self-Portrait”

Kiwanis Club Award Jake Bishop “Splash”

2013 High School Student Show – Award Winners

Congratulations to all the exhibiting students of the High School Student Show and Congressional Competition. Please see the award winners below.

Congressional Competition Grand Prize & Kiwanis Club Award Sarah Bradley “Freckle Face”

Congressional Competition 2nd Place Carrie Shea “Through the Eyes of the Broken”

Congressional Competition 3rd Place Ryan Kemp “Woods, Not Wood’s”

Congressional Competition Honorable Mention: Computer Generated De Robinson “Gravitas”

Congressional Competition Honorable Mention: Mixed Media, Art Book Award, & Fortnight Award Justin Fash Leapley “Cold Shoulder”

Congressional Competition Honorable Mention: Photography Haley Schmidt “Untitled”

Honorable Mention Nicole Muzquiz “Dragon Teapot”

SWIC Art Club Merit Award Edward Williams “Self Portrait”

Ron Isom Contemporary Award Jon Pulse “Alcatraz”

Congressional Competition Honorable Mention: Collage Pauline Cabrera “Aqualina”

Congressional Competition Honorable Mention: Painting & Artisan Guild of Southern Illinois Award Yoonjoo Moon “Dancer”

Congressional Competition Honorable Mention: Drawing & Midwest Salute to the Arts 2D Award Annie Parkinson “Jesse”

Midwest Salute to the Arts Festival Committee 3D Award Kennedy Sonsoucie “Biker Gnome”

Ron Isom Contemporary Award Mary Rowden “Words for Thoughts”

Honorable Mention Molly Lamzik “A Look Inside My Head”

Gateway East Artist Guild Paige Frawly “Peacock Pot”

American Frame Award Polly Hawthorne “Burning Man”

Artisan Guild of Southern Illinois Award Angela Denno “The Girl in the Mirror”

Fortnight Award Cheyenne Ridgeway “The Depression”

SWIC Art Club Merit Award Claudia Roloff “Obsessed”

Art Book Award Nisha Margrum “Tools of the Trade”

Our High School Student Series Returns!

Fall 2012: Still Life Drawing

Download an application here. The spring 2013 semester begins February 21st; applications are due February 15th.

Sun Smith-Foret, Carol Stewart, & M.A. Papanek-Miller Exhibitions Now Open

Sun Smith-Foret – Art About Film: New Work

Jan. 17 – Feb. 28, 2013

Influenced by a variety of artistic mediums and practices, Sun Smith-Foret joins film and quilting techniques to focus on the relationships between cinema and its universal themes.

Includes collaborators Erica Popp & Dawn Ottensmeier.

Shown: Sun Smith-Foret’s Spike Lee Joints I, (detail)

 

Carol Stewart – Light Abstracted

Jan. 17 – Feb. 28, 2013

Characterized by a sophisticated play of color and brushwork, Carol Stewart’s still life and tablescape paintings provide the viewer with a feeling of light.

Shown: Carol Stewart’s Quince, Persimmon, & Shallots (detail)

M.A. Papanek-Miller – … go forward till you come to a castle

Jan. 17 – Feb. 28, 2013

M.A. Papanek-Miller’s whimsical collages incorporate toys, animals, and other “cultural souvenirs” that allow the viewer to participate in conceptual and intellectual discourse.

Shown: M.A. Papanek-Miller’s Looking for Alice: taking (the) water(s) (detail)

Now Open: 2012 SWIC Faculty Show & Proctor Puppets: Showcasing Amusement

November 1 – December 14, 2012

Proctor Puppets: Showcasing Amusement

An exhibition created by students from the SIUE Museum Studies Program, featuring selections from the Proctor Puppet Collection at the University Museum at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville.

SWIC Art Faculty Exhibition

Featuring works of the art department faculty:

Don Bevirt

Paula McAteer

Andy Brandmeyer

Brad Eilering

Nancy Friederich

Shawn Niebruegge

Denise Schilling

Cory Sellers

Dale Threlkeld

Dave Woesthaus

Spyros Karayiannis

Guy Weible

Kristina Cipolla

Doug Eskra

Todd May

Becky Peterson

Dawn Schuck

Wayne Shaw

Cheryl Wimmer
For more information, visit swic.edu/SAC.

Welcome Scholarship Students!

The Schmidt’s Scholarship Students

The Schmidt would like to introduce our new batch of scholarship students: (left to right) Stephanie Cuvar, Catherine Worstell, Zachary Lassen, Carolyn Eck, and Paul Pratt.

The students have already been working on a variety of projects, including working on the Schmidt’s collection and archives, installing artwork around campus, and assisting with our educational programming.

Congrats, guys, and thanks for all your help so far!

The Schmidt Welcomes Nicole Dutton, Curator & Facility Coordinator

The Schmidt is pleased to welcome Nicole Dutton, our new curator and facility coordinator.

Nicole Dutton, Curator & Facility Coordinator

A little about Nicole:

Nicole Dutton was born and raised in Olney, Illinois. She attended Greenville College, where she received a BA in psychology with a minor in sociology in 2000.

In 2002, she married and moved to the St. Louis area. She worked as a clinical interventionist at St. Elizabeth’s Medical Center in Granite City, IL, counseling children suffering from acute behavior disorders. It was through this experience that she became more interested in art therapy. However, as she began to paint and draw, her passion turned more specifically to art. She took drawing classes at SWIC with Dale Threlkeld and Spyros Karayiannis. Spyros encouraged her to apply to Fontbonne University’s MFA program, which she was accepted into in 2003, and completed in 2007. During that time she worked at Jefferson College as an adjunct art instructor teaching Art Appreciation and Watercolor.

After graduation in 2007, she began work at Chesterfield Arts – first as Director of Education and Outreach, building an art education program for children and adults, and later as Associate Director overseeing the gallery, off-site exhibition spaces, and an extensive public art collection.

Nicole took her new post as Curator and Facility Coordinator of the Schmidt Art Center at the end of July 2012. She looks forward to continuing the efforts of bringing art and education to the students and faculty of SWIC and the surrounding community.