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At this year’s Elmira College Senior and Student Art Shows, four students were awarded prizes for their artwork. The annual Senior Art show was on display in the George Waters Gallery, and the corresponding Term III Student Art Show, with works from students in every class year, remains on display in the Gannett-Tripp Library.
This year’s prize judge was Summer Small, Programs Manager at the Arnot Art Museum in Elmira. Small, a self-taught visual artist from East Tennessee, came to Elmira in 2023. She finds inspiration in her Appalachian upbringing and her community and has received numerous first-place and grand prize awards.
In choosing Webster’s works for first prize, Small noted the student’s finely honed abilities in both two and three-dimensional art. Small was surprised to learn Webster is not majoring in Art, and encouraged her to continue to pursue it along with her career in human services.
Wolkwitz’s installation, titled “Vision In Chaos,” included sculpture, painting, ceramics, and photography. Eyes and vision played a central role in her pieces.
In her artist statement, she explained, “My work is a reflection of my personal experiences and struggles with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. How it immensely affects my relationships with people, the world, my own mind, and how this journey has led to an awakening in my art. I hope to provide more context about the disorder through this work, that it is not just about organizing pens in colored order, but how it can affect every moment of a person's life.”
Tom exhibited a ceramics installation that included many wheel-thrown works. In the photo above, her surrealistic “eye” piece shows characteristic crackling of Raku, a low-temperature firing process that students practice in Term III.
“I was thrilled to have received this recognition for my work. I never expected to win something,” shared Tom. “For the last few terms, I have been exploring different shapes using the pottery wheel while developing my technical skills. I have been trying different ways of addressing color and texture with the firing process. My goal was to make pieces that are pleasing to the eye.”
Larson’s sculpture is filled with creature imagery based on horror films, particularly Rob Bottin’s special effects work on the 1982 horror film, “The Thing.”
“It’s only my second time sculpting out of clay, so I’m happy to hear it got an honorable mention,” shared Larson. “My main goal was to allow viewers to appreciate the piece from any angle. I made sure that something was happening on all sides of the piece.”