Juried Student Exhibition 2011

41st Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition

The 41st Annual USI Juried Art Exhibition is open from April 3 - 29, 2011, at the McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries.

The 154 artworks by 88 students were selected for the exhibit by juror Becky Alley, Curator of the Lexington Art League Gallery in Lexington, Kentucky. 

Winners of merit awards, purchase awards and scholarship awards were announced at the opening reception on April 3, 2011.  Community members and area businesses and corporations generously contribute to make these awards possible. 

Everything Was Blurred, a screen print by Christopher Thompson, won the Best of Show Award.

Dean Aakhus with Christopher Thompson and his Best of Show piece	DeWayne Esson, senior graphic design student, with his work	Weren't They All Once Someone's Baby?, acrylic, by Jamie Williams, Painting Merit Award

About the Juror

Becky Alley is currently the Exhibitions and Programs Director at the Lexington Art League in Lexington, Kentucky. Ms. Alley earned a BFA in studio art from Washington University in 2000, and an MFA in studio art from the University of Kansas in 2005. Before joining the LAL staff in January 2010, Ms. Alley was the Director of University Galleries at Murray State University for nearly four years. She has organized over 100 shows and has curated several major projects including Think Tank, an international show of political art, and Creatures Great and Small, a touring exhibition of contemporary art featuring animals. She has also exhibited her artwork in several galleries across the United States, as well as in South Korea and China, and most recently had a solo exhibition titled COUNT at slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania.