Winner - Best Overall
Brenda Johnson
Artist's story: "A needle felted spoon bill. Each feather was hand felted, wire spun, brushed, glued, and trimmed."
Winner - Best Painting
André Griffin
Winner - Best Drawing
Riley Cook
Artist's story: "Made with ballpoint pen and highlighter."
Winner - Best Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Zoe Faucette
Artist's story: "A combination of my sculptural and pottery skills all wrapped up into an iconic duo: a raccoon and his trashcan!"
Winner - Best Photography & Graphic Design
Ava Perez
Artist's story: "This peice is inspired by my biggest supporter and hero, my abuela."
Winner - Best Photography & Graphic Design
Ava Perez
Winner - Best Photography & Graphic Design
Ava Perez
Winner - People's Choice Award
Mary Elaine Kent
Artist's story: "Ne Barbaros Cedamus means "let us not yield to barbarians" in Latin. This piece represents the importance of staying true to what you believe in despite outside forces that try to break you from who you truly are."
Brenda Johnson - Painting
Artist's story: "This painting was created for Hispanic heritage month, heavy gel was used to add texture, real sand was added for grit to the path, and seed beads were embroidered onto the dress. The grass and some leaves were piped onto the canvas like icing."
André Griffin - Painting
Rhonda Grego - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "Congaree National Park, May 20, 2023, just before dark. The late day sun was bright and slant, lighting up a tangle of webs and woods beyond the boardwalk when a moth flew across frame, adding the soft beat of feathered wings brushing by."
Zoe Faucette - Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Artist's story: "A combination of my sculptural and pottery skills all wrapped up into an iconic duo: a raccoon and his trashcan!"
André Griffin - Painting
Zoe Faucette - Painting
Artist's story: "A watercolor piece I had no real thought going into. I like raccoons, I like space, here's a space raccoon."
Ava Perez - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "This peice is inspired by my biggest supporter and hero, my abuela."
Riley Cook - Drawing
Artist's story: "Made with ballpoint pen."
Shelby Jackson - Painting
Riley Cook - Drawing
Artist's story: "Made with ballpoint pen and highlighter."
Valentina Phan - Photography & graphic design
Zoe Faucette - Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Artist's story: "A sculpture of a character from one of my favorite video game trilogies: The Legend of Spyro. Made with red earthen clay and bisque fired."
Ava Perez - Photography & Graphic Design
Kimberly Furry - Painting (Acrylic on wood)
Artist's story: "Reflective, capacious, specular; glass has been a muse for my artwork for many years. The capacity for hidden imagery within subtle refractions of light; and the gentle gradations of color exuding from a clear, color-less material, have captivated my painterly curiosity. I have painted pictorial biographies within bell-jars before, but wanted to expand and create a scene of impossibility and discovery within a bell jar. This piece of art represents relocating to a new city and discovering new scenery and past-times. I have never lived near a body of water before and that I ever would. The culture of going to the beach for a day trip alludes to a child-like playfulness that I only saw depicted in movies. Living here now, I look forward to creating beach trip memories my children while we explore and discovery each beaches’ mysteries and nuances."
Shelby Jackson - Painting
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "river bank zoos male lion taken with a 500mm lens canon & camera."
André Griffin - Painting
Sara Rabieh - Painting
Mary Elaine Kent - Photography & graphic design
Artist's story: "This is a logo I created in my CGC 220 class. We were assigned to design a logo for the commercial graphic communications program that we then screen-printed. This project taught us how to design and output files for complex screen prints."
Mary Elaine Kent - Painting
Artist's story: "Ne Barbaros Cedamus means "let us not yield to barbarians" in Latin. This piece represents the importance of staying true to what you believe in despite outside forces that try to break you from who you truly are."
Brenda Johnson - Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Artist's story: "A needle felted spoon bill. Each feather was hand felted, wire spun, brushed, glued, and trimmed."
Joshua Dyckes - Painting
Artist's story: "A simple painting made from last semester"
Joshua Dyckes - Painting
Artist's story: "A simple assignment I've done last semester"
André Griffin - Painting
Shelby Jackson - Painting
André Griffin - Painting
Mary Elaine Kent - Painting, Photography & graphic design
Artist's story: "Split fountain linocut print."
Riley Cook - Drawing
Artist's story: "Made with chalk pastel, oil pastel, and splashes of gouache paint."
Ava Perez - Photography & Graphic Design
Mary Elaine Kent - Drawing
Artist's story: "This is a digital collage illustration I made from inspiration of the works of Eric Carle."
Brenda Johnson - Drawing
Rhonda Grego - Photography & Graphic Design
Mariana Hall - Drawing
Artist's story: "I created this using stippling."
Shelby Jackson - Painting
Sara Rabieh - Painting
Shelby Jackson - Painting
Shelby Jackson - Painting
Abby Ricard - Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Artist's story: "I blacked out in Ceramics Class and woke up with a collection of witches fingers."
Shelby Jackson - Painting
MTC Library and the MTC Foundation are sponsoring an art contest supporting the theme of National Library Week, "Ready, Set, Library!" Enter works that inspire you to see the world from many perspectives.
Contest Guidelines:
The contest is open to current students, faculty, and staff of Midlands Technical College.
The categories for submission are:
Entries must not have been submitted for previous MTC Library Art Contests.
Entries must be prepared for display.
Submissions must be received between March 18th and April 12th, and must be accompanied by a digitally signed submission form that certifies the work is the entrant’s original.
Prizes:
A panel of judges will decide the winners for each category and for the grand prize. An online vote will determine the winner of the People's Choice award.
Grand Prize - $100.00 Gift Certificate
Category Winners - $25.00 Gift Certificates (4 Categories)
People’s Choice - $25.00 Gift Certificate
Award Presentation:
Prizes will be awarded on Wednesday, April 17th, at 2:00 pm at Airport Library, AC 225.
For questions about the art contest, contact Aleck Williams.
803-822-3678
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