Students can win cash for artwork

Attention art students looking for competition and a little extra cash: the 13th Annual Student Juried Art Exhibition deadline is fast approaching.

Entries will be accepted Feb. 1 until Feb. 4 at 4 p.m. Artwork should be delivered to the Birke Art Gallery storage area. The Student Juried Art Exhibition offers students a chance to compete while earning money and recognition for their work.

"They get to compete against their peers in a real life situation and so they have to deal with trying to get their work accepted," Stanley Sporny, visual arts professor, said. "They (students) work hard."

Total amount of this year's prize money surpasses $3,000. First-place winner's exhibits will be in a group show at the Jomie Jazz Center.

"Quite a few of our artists have sold exhibits out of the gallery," Sporny said. "People come in and they can get really good original art work."

Katherine Cox, educator at the Huntington Museum of Art and Margaret Skove, director of the Huntington Museum of Art, are judging the competition.

"The competition gives them (students) the gratification of seeing their work hung," Cox said. "It gives them a sense of professionalism."

Cox said she looks for quality, thoroughness, presentation and integrity in the artwork she judges. This is her first year judging the Student Art Juried Exhibition.

Judging for the competition is Feb. 5. Awards will be announced at 1 p.m. Feb. 6.

Undergraduate students should enter completed work from a studio art class at Marshall within the spring, summer and fall semesters of 1999. Students can enter one piece from each studio class. Work must be assembled, completely dry and ready for display at the time it is submitted. Each work must have two labels on the back. Labels can be picked up on the art office door of Smith Hall 721.

Sponsors for this year's exhibition are Mack and Dave's Camera Department, City Bank, Latta's art supply and Renaissance Book Company and Coffee House.