FINE ARTS CREATIVITY AWARD AND SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM
The art museum recently presented awards and scholarships to the winners of 2008 The Fine Arts Creativity Awards: Interpreting Light. This award and scholarship ceremony was an opportunity to honor students in grades 9 through 12 and College of the Desert students who submitted their art work for this annual exhibition. This year, 56 pieces were chosen by a panel of judges and the art museum issued nearly $5000 in financial awards. Each exhibiting student will receive a certificate of merit and a one-year family membership to the museum. The students will have their work on display in the Jorgensen and Toor galleries in the lower level until May 4, 2008.
The Fine Arts Creativity Awards are sponsored in part by Georgia and Gerry Fogelson, Donna and Cargill MacMillan, The James Irvine Foundation and The Coeta and Donald Barker Foundation.
The winning students included:
- Fine Arts Creativity Program Purchase Award for $1,000:
Jessica Smith, White Out, Cathedral City High School
John A. Hansen, Don't Look Down, College of the Desert
- Joe and Pamela Bonino Prize for Photographic Creativity for $500:
Maxi Pehling, Experience a New World, Desert Hot Springs High School
- Coachella Valley Desert Camera Club Award for Photography for $500
Jed Diolola, Butterfly Autumn, Palm Desert High School
- Docent Council Award for $500
Adam Rodriguez, Hunter Gatherers, Indio High School
- Contemporary Art Council Award for $400
Anthony Irizarry, We Never Sleep, Desert Mirage High School
- The James Irvine Foundation Award for $350
Larson Ankeny, Falling Light, La Quinta High School
- The James Irvine Foundation Award for $350
Juan Galvan, Untitled (Self-portrait), College of the Desert
- Western Art Council Award for $300
David Lopez, Cœur de Pierre, La Quinta High School
- Sofia Jones Award for $150
Christine Jones, The Flight of the Phoenix, Cathedral City High School
- Elizabeth Kinyon Award for Work on Paper for $100
Maria C. Macias, Fading Innocence, Cathedral City High School
- Peggy's Choice Award for $100
Luis Bonilla, Azul, Desert Hot Springs High School
- Violet (V.J.) Jacobs Award for $100
Jessica May, Night Light, Palm Desert High School
Additionally, the Art Museum awarded $15,000 in college scholarships,
all generously underwritten by Trustee Georgia Fogelson. |
Jessica Smith, White Out,
Cathedral City High School |
John A. Hansen, Don't Look Down,
College of the Desert |
The scholarship recipients are (left to right): Justin Houghton, Palm Desert High School, $2,000, Rosa Maria Escarsega, Desert Hot Springs High School, $3,000, Jeremy Ross Stock, Palm Desert High School, $3,000, Georgia Fogelson, College Scholarship Sponsor, Dwight Davis, Desert Hot Springs High School, $5,000, Shana Wardle, Palm Desert High School, $2,000.
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The Museum's permanent collection of more than 55,000 objects features art of the Americas and 20th-century California art. The collection includes modernist and contemporary painting and sculpture, Western American art, Native American and Mesoamerican art and artifacts, contemporary studio glass art, photography, modern architecture and design, and graphics/works on paper. |
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