Rationale:
Since 1974, the Student Annual has showcased new artwork produced by students at Illinois State University. This exhibition has offered many students the first opportunity to have their work reviewed by professionals outside the University. Each year, two external arts professionals determine which works are selected for the exhibition and which works receive awards.
This year's studio juror is Erin Washington, a painter, drawer, sculptor, and installation artist living in Chicago. Washington is a lecturer at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her work has been exhibited at Cleve Carney Museum of Art, Glen Ellyn, Illinois; University Galleries of Illinois State University, Normal; Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore; Columbia University, New York; Western Exhibitions, Chicago; and Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, among many others.
This year’s design juror is Aggie Toppins, an Associate Professor of Communication Design and Chair of Design at Washington University in St. Louis. She combines studio practice and critical writing to explore issues in meaning-making, as well as design history and its feedback effect on practice. Her recent writing has been published by Design and Culture, Design Issues, Diseña, and AIGA Eye on Design. Her first book, Thinking Through Graphic Design History, will be released in 2025.
Description:
At the exhibtion was awarded with a scholorship and award both in Ceramics!
SILICA Award and the Mary R. Walker Scholarship
About the work:
Title:"Abuelita, may our ancestors bless our brown skin once again "
After hundreds of years of colonization, our community is still hurt. The wound is deep enough that she still looks at herself in shame thinking her indigenous skin is ugly.
However, I look at our skin with beauty. I hope that one day we can look at our skin with pride and fondness simultaneously.
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