Spring 2017
47th Annual Juried Student Art Show
April 2-30, 2017
Reception: 2-4 p.m., Sunday, April 2, 2017
The 47th Annual University of Southern Indiana Juried Student Art Show will be open April 2-30 in the McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries on the USI campus. The galleries are open 10 a.m. - 4 p.m. Monday through Friday and 1 p.m. - 5 p.m. Sunday.
Over $9,000 in merit awards, scholarships and purchase awards was announced on Sunday, April 2, at the opening of the show. Freshman Art major Bayley Graham won the top award, Best of Show, with her ink drawing Shadow Nest (see below).
Background: Patrick Bennet, The Immortal Slab - Merit Award
Foreground: Christian Smith, Walnut Table #2 - Merit Award
Cally Jo Klausing, The Last Dryad, woodcut
Printmaking Merit Award
Bayley Graham, Shadow Nest, ink drawing
Best of Show
Megan Thorne, Rooftop Perspectives, inkjet print
Dillon Wire, Rise, mixed media painting
Sophomore Merit Award
Juror Arthur Fields has selected 170 artworks from over 400 entries for the exhibition and selected the award recipients. Fields is an artist and photographer based in Dallas and Vincennes/Evansville, Indiana. He received his MFA from Texas Woman's University in Denton and his BFA in digital imaging from Washington University in St. Louis. His current photographic work deals with self-image and technology relationships. Fields is a board member of several photographic arts organizations including Ticka Arts and the Texas Photographic Society. He also is an active member of the Society for Photographic Education, serving as student volunteer coordinator for the national conference. Fields is an assistant professor of art, currently teaching photography, and runs the Shircliff Gallery at Vincennes University in Vincennes, Indiana.
Tanna Small, Future President, oil on canvas
Merit Award
Emily Meyer, Mary Lou Kramer, acrylic on canvas
Merit Award
Justin Cecil, Portrait of Chicken with Woman,
oil on linen
Merit Award
Kerri Nelson, 3 Parts of a Sloth, pit-fired ceramics
Bree Neeley, Citrus, inkjet print
| Award | Artist | Title |
| Best of Show | Bayley Graham | Shadow Nest |
| Graphic Design Merit Award | Kaleigh Wallace | Know Your Cup of Joe |
| Graphic Design Merit Award for Packaging, Wearables or Environmental Graphics | Kaleigh Wallace | Hide and Sika |
| Ceramics Merit Award | Sue Culley | It Is All Inside Us |
| Drawing Merit Award | Peyton Ahrens | Clarity |
| Painting Merit Award | Philip Kuhns | Pickle Things |
| Illustration Merit Award | Bethany Schwartzentruber | Carousel Craze |
| Jewelry Merit Award | Carli Kempf | Crumble |
| Printmaking Merit Award | Cally Jo Klausing | The Last Dryad |
| Sculpture Merit Award | Olivia Dehner | Knowledge Can Take You Far |
| Three-Dimensional Printing Merit Award | Jordan Greene | The Cross |
| Woodworking Merit Award | Logan Tharpe | Jessie Evans |
| Photography Merit Award | Claire Wright | Downtown Life |
| Darkroom Photography Merit Award | Laura Green | Autumn's Aura |
| Graphic Design Branding Merit Award | Bethany Schwartzentruber | EAFC logo |
| Graphic Design Posters/Informational Graphic Merit Award | Logan Boyd | Fox Invasive Species |
| Freshman Scholarship in Memory of James Parrent | Kameron Nosko | SE 1st Street |
| Sophomore Scholarship | Dillon Wire | Cloud Cuckoo Land |
| Junior Scholarship | Jessie Reising | An Ancient Shutter |
| Sophomore/Junior Scholarship | Katie Carlisle | Love Birds |
| Excellence in Graphic Design Scholarship | Emily Smitley | The K-9 Unit |
| Stephen Herron '81 Memorial Award | Madeline Kissel | A Gardner's Dream |
| Dee Millard Memorial Award in Woodworking | Brian Simpson | Defender |
| Degreed Student Merit Award | Melinda Scott | Silly Siblings |
| Senior Merit Award | Savannah Hoskinson | Thylacine |
| Junior Merit Award | Levi Schulz | Portrait of my Mother |
| Sophomore Merit Award | Dillon Wire | Rise |
| Freshman Merit Award | Jonathan Hamilton | Agape |
| Art Club Member Award | Michael Miller | Cramped Quarters |
| Art Club Member Award | Grace Wagner | Marionette |
| Art Club Member Award | Alison Shouse | Hand Made |
| Art Club Member Award | Tylar Dean | Ski-Ka-Ha-Chu-Rui |
| Merit Award | Andrew Maurer | Cogwheel |
| Merit Award | Justin Cecil | Portrait of Chicken with Woman |
| Merit Award | Kaleigh Wallace | Little Woman |
| Merit Award | Victoria West | Penny the American Kestrel |
| Merit Award | Savannah Hoskinson | Skull Study Book |
| Merit Award | Tanna Small | Future President |
| Merit Award | Christian Smith | Walnut Table #2 |
| Merit Award | Patrick Bennett | The Immortal Slab |
| Merit Award | Kaleigh Wallace | Lannister Identity Guidelines |
| Merit Award | Shelby Moring | Memories Have Teeth: A Collection of Shark Teeth |
| Merit Award | Callie Poehlein | Les temps sont durs pour les rêvure |
| Merit Award | Casi Bower | Kids Trash |
| Merit Award | Brian Simpson | Creative Energy |
| Merit Award | Philip Kuhns | Paper Garden Matching Game Illustration |
| Merit Award | Benjamin Turner | Dark and Light |
| Merit Award | Tanna Small | Papaw Tim's Legacy |
| Merit Award | Emily Meyer | Mary Lou Kramer |
| Merit Award | Evelyn Freudenburg | Seeker |
| Merit Award | Katy Whitehouse | Woman Up |
| Merit Award | Jes David | Beanut Putter Cup |
| Purchase Award | Kaleigh Wallace | Know Your Joe |
| Purchase Award | Sarah Alsaied | Green Horizon |
| Purchase Award | Livia Alexander | Women's Work |
| Purchase Award | Austin Ahrens | Untitled |
| Purchase Award | Tylar Dean | Sly Trickster |
Logan Boyd, Fox Invasive Species, information graphics
Graphic Design Posters/Informational Graphic Merit Award
Bethany Schwartzentruber, EAFC logo, digital print
Graphic Design Branding Merit Award
Livia Alexander, Women's Work, mixed media painting
Purchase Award
Callie Poehlein, Holiday World, After Hours, linocut
Peyton Ahrens, Clarity, charcoal drawing
Drawing Merit Award