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Monday, February 17, 2025
Volume 112 Issue 3
Cameron's
SENIOR ART SHOW Alyssa Martinez Student Life Editor
From 6-8 p.m., Feb. 6, in the Cameron University Art Teaching Gallery in the Art Building of the Louise D. McMahon Fine Arts Complex, the Sixth Annual Student Art Competition and Gallery opened to the public. The gallery is displaying art from close to 30 undergraduate art majors created almost exclusively from classes students have taken. The two categories for competition featured were two-dimensional art and three-dimensional art made from a variety of media and judged by a guest juror. The job of the juror is to critique the art and select the winners in each category. Each category had prizes for first, second and third places as well as honorable mentions. First place in each category had a cash prize of $250. Second place had a prize of $175. Third place had a prize of $125, and each honorable mention had a prize of $50. The juror for the competition was Kendra Hand, an art teacher from Navajo Public Schools, a graphic designer for Comanche County Memorial Hospital as well as an adjunct professor teaching graphic design at Cameron University. First prize in the Two-Dimensional Art Category went to Mallory Cajas for her oil on canvas painting “The Beheading of Jack Crouch.” Mathew Gonzalez won second place with an oil painting on Canvas titled “The Sleep of Reason.” Kanney Do won third place for “Doomsday,” an oil on canvas. First place in the Three-Dimensional Art Category went to Diane Denham with a multimedia piece on wood canvas titled “Conception.” Second place
went to Camila Ramos with a metal, wood and resin ups and downs in that,” Crouch said. sculpture titled “Harmonies” featuring frogs made Although there is no limit on how many pieces from resin. Third place went to Melissa Helig with students may enter, many get rejected but that is part “Dynamic Ascension,” a wood sculpture made with of what the Art Gallery is trying to teach. stacked geometric frames. “People do get rejected … as far as it goes, that’s Three honorable mentions were a pretty normal part of the presented with first place going to professional world,” Crouch Sabrina McClellan's “Forget Me “(The Senior Art Show) said. Not,” an oil on canvas. The next Senior art major and has taught me how going to Jaden Pebeahsy, for “Game honorable mention winner Night,” an oil on canvas. The final Dayton Horn has entered the to present my work honorable mention went to Dayton competition every year and professionally while Horn for “Mother Nature,” with a has learned something new learning how to meet relief print. every year. The final award of the “It has taught me deadlines." competition part of the evening how to present my work — Dayton Horn professionally while learning was The Award of Exceptionalism, Senior Art Major how to meet deadlines," Horn awarded by the art faculty to recognize exceptional work across said. Horn, as a member media, as well as exceptional work of the senior art class, has ethic and prolific art production. This award was won to help prepare the Senior Art Showcase, put on by April Luikart, who was actually taking photos of exclusively by senior art majors, coming up in April at each winner that evening before she won her award. the Leslie Powell Gallery. She says being a part of the The rest of the evening, spectators and students Student Gallery every year has helped her prepare for were free to browse the Gallery with their families it and the professional art world. and supporters. “This show has helped me refine my style and Assistant painting professor Jack Crouch said the voice, which will continue to give me a sense of competition and exhibition is a good way for students direction in my artistic career,” Horn said. to learn what it takes to be in the professional art The exhibition is open to the public from 8 a.m. – 4 world with how they manage her artwork timewise p.m. Monday through Friday until Feb. 21 in the Art and how they prepare it. Building. “I think it’s a wonderful experience for students to experience being part of a juried exhibition because there are some
"Conception" by Diane Denham
"Mother Nature"
Wood, Canvas, Acrylic Paint, Leather
by Dayton Horn
Awarded First Place in the Three Dimensional Art Category.
Relief Print
Awarded an Honorable Mention in the Two Dimensional Art Category.
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