2021 Student Art Exhibition Award Winners

Presidents Award in Honor of Kathy Farrell – $500.00

A black and white drawing of a woman looking straight out at the viewer, while four various hands emerge from the edges of the drawing, and are awkwardly touching her face and running fingers through her hair.
Megan Fallis, Monachopsis, Charcoal and Gel Pen, 24″ x 18″

Tom Mercer Award – $250.00

A dark illustration, in the middle of the drawing is a woman hovering in water, hand to her throat, bubbles coming from her mouth. She is completely surrounded by mysterious deep sea creatures.
Zazie Weldgen, Thalasophobia, gouche, colored pencils, micron pens, 11″ x 8.5″

Robert (Smitty) Smith Illustration Award – $200.00

A digital design showing a plastic bottle floating on the surface of a body of water, and a bones of a fish are coming from below to eat the bottle.
Mark Payton, Polish Poster Style- Ocean Clean Up, Digital, 11″ x 17″

Juliana Furlong Williams Painting Award – $200.00

A painting in mostly neutral colors of a man bundled up in a blanket and looking up at the viewer. He wears a hat and glasses.
Matthew Oo, Self Portrait, Painting, 14″ x 11″

Mercer Gallery Award – $100.00

Digital Collage that depicts a dreamscape set in a valley with a river running through it. Birds fly through the valley and an enormous waterfall rushes at the top of a cliff in the background. The color a treated with Photoshop filters to have a vintage-like photo effect. A cliff is in the foreground. A man and a woman in bathing suits are put into greyscale and dive off the cliff into the water below. The skyscape is a purple universe dotted with stars, and the Earth is in place of the Sun or the Moon and larger than life, as if the viewer is on the moon itself.
Jaenette Cargill, Dream Dive, Digital Collage, 8″ x 10″

Jurors Choice – $100.00

Charcoal drawing of the artist, portrait in harsh lighting from the right of the face and the left being in light , many different marks made to change the illusion in the dark side of the portrait, heavy blacks and highlights.
Salvador Otero, Self Portrait, Charcoal, 16″ x 20″

Jurors Award – $50.00

Still life drawing of a fish hanging on a wall wearing headphones and holding a paintbrush in his mouth.
Gianni Barbero, Fish On Wall, Charcoal Drawing, 24″ x 18″

Switcharooney Productions Award – $150.00

A black and white ink drawing of four figures walking across the road ad their heads are replaced by various flowers. The road recedes into the background and is flanked by trees.
Carmelo Ortiz, Flowers Walking, Ink Drawing, 9: x 9″

Bartkovich Technology Award – $150.00

Image that is a Photoshop collage. The main object is an hour glass, and in the top section we see a factory and the exhaust , and under the factory are inverted trees. In the bottom globe we see a desert with a camel. The background of this image is light colors and blurry.
Jing Feng, Global Warming, Digital Art, 8.5″ x 11″

Spoon Fish Studio Award for Collage – $100.00

This is a Japanese-style collage made of shredded paper. In this artwork, the floor, cherries, and most of the beams are made by shredded paper and painted with warm colors by watercolor. The piece is designed as a room where cats are occupying the space, looking happy and snacking on various foods.
Zhen Yi Lin, Hanami, Shredded Paper and Colored Pencil, 19″ x 12″

Christian Monacelli Snell Award for a Drawing by a Woman Artist – $100.00

A black and white drawing of an abstracted head, made up of all different shapes, and parts flying off in various directions.
Merve Duyar, Creeping Fear, Charcoal Drawing, 17″ x 22″

Space 86 Award for Advancement – $100.00

Photograph of a side view of a woman's face behind a glass pane with water droplets and the entire photograph has a blue hue.
Melissa Tylock, Blue, Photograph, 20″ x 13.25″

The Katherine Vollmer Award for Outstanding Photography – $100.00

A black and white photograph taken through a chain link fence, in the foreground in a waterfall, and in the background is the Rochester skyline and trees.
Umarah Abdul Rahim, Can I Please Come Out, Photograph, 5.3″ x 8″

Weldgen Family Award Comics Etc. – $75.00 gift certificate

This is a five-panel sequential narration. The first two panels show primitive vertebrates viciously feeding on others. A wide middle panel shows a crocodile savaging a baby zebra in a stream. The fourth panel shows President Trump at Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s swearing-in ceremony; Trump reaches for one of Kavanaugh’s daughters. The final panel shows a cockroach preparing to consume an ant.
David Ruekberg, Cold Blooded Evolution, Ink drawing, 19″ x 24″

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