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Art is not typically considered competitive, however, for at least one on-campus competition, cash is now at stake.
Students' artwork for the competition has been submitted and judged, and it is available to see until Feb. 20 at the School of Visual Arts Undergraduate Juried Exhibition in Zoller Gallery. The winners will be awarded cash prizes.
Gallery coordinator Heather Hughes said all undergraduate students in the school of visual arts were given the opportunity to submit two works of any media to possibly be included in the annual exhibition. A juror judged the submitted artwork and then selected the pieces to be featured in the show.
"The purpose of this show is to have a show that is open to all undergraduate students in the School of Visual Arts and to have a show that's juried," she said.
Hughes said this year's juror is Peter Dudek, an award-winning artist and curator from New York.
After selecting the works for the show, Dudek chose two top prize winners who will each receive $500 cash awards and five other prize winners who will receive $100 cash awards, she said. Hughes said more than 90 works will be displayed in the show, and the winners will be announced at the exhibition's reception Wednesday night.
Chris Donadio (sophomore-art), who is a photographer for The Daily Collegian, said his submission was influenced by the fact that Dudek was going to jury the exhibition.
"I had the option of just submitting something old that I did last semester, but it was important to think about the art piece, where it was going to be and who was going to be looking at it. That definitely influenced what I was going to make, so I decided to create [a sculpture] related to Peter Dudek," he said.
Donadio's work "A Sculpture for Peter Dudek's Cat" was his first submission into a juried show.
"It's like one of those kitty apartments that are covered in carpet for cats to climb around in," he said, adding that he felt completely satisfied with how his sculpture turned out.
It was also the first time Nathan Gray (junior-art) has submitted a work to a juried exhibition.
"It was [a painting] I had just finished for class," he said. "We had to paint a dream we had, so I picked a pretty strange one. It was in a high tower, and there were two of me. One of me was painting what looked like Arabic on the wall and then the other had a confused face because my hand was turning into a silvery substance."
Gray said he was honored that his painting was chosen for the show.
"I was pretty happy to find out that my work was accepted for it because if you see the other pieces, some of the BSA students'... their work is insanely good," he said. "To have a painting of mine accepted into the same exhibition as theirs is a very big honor."
This article misquoted Nathan Gray (junior-art). He was referring to Bachelor of Fine Arts students' being highly talented.
