Winner - People's Choice Award
Winner - Best Painting
Artist's story: "This work is graphite and watercolor, two media I use frequently when painting portraits of others. As a portrait artist, I am rarely the subject of artwork, so for this year's theme, I decided to paint a self portrait with elements of my own story as the background."
Winner - Best in Show
Artist's story: "This sculpture is made with polymer clay, acrylic paint, needle felting, glass eyes, a terrarium, earth clay for the baby, and assembly of some false leaves."
Winner - Best Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Winner - Best Drawing
Winner - Best Photography & Graphic Design
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "A garden spider waits for flies bees or wasps to ambush."
Josiah Blevins - Painting
Luke Diaz - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: ""A book always tells half the story" is something that my grandfather told me once in New York when I was only a kid. I didn't understand at first since I was never into reading books. I realized after a few years that it's up to my interpretation to tell the other half of the story. With that being said having my interpretation of stories, It could be endless. That is how I got the name and Idea for this art piece."
Vicki Gadecki - Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Artist's story: "Visit India one day. Ride an elephant around the Meenakshi Temple. Meditate surrounded by lotus petals inside a Bahai House of Worship. Experience enlightenment."
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Josiah Blevins - Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Brenda Johnson - Drawing
Makayla Martin - Drawing
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Josiah Blevins - Painting
Makayla Martin - Painting
Samantha (Leif) Kowitz - Painting
Artist's story: "This painting is inspired by a Japanese pop song called “Rabuka”. “Rabuka” in Japanese can translate to either “Love?” or “Frilled Shark”. The entire song revolves around this play on words that would not make sense in English, and so does the painting."
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "displayed in a recycled cabinet door"
Vicki Gadecki - Painting
Artist's story: "I am a Tiger. My Blood Runneth Orange."
Brenda Johnson - Painting
Artist's story: "This work is needle felted, sculpty, handmade resin eyes, and acrylic paint."
Martin Morales - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "As I wait for you to arrive under this tree, I realize how empty my heart and soul is without your love. It kills me to never be able to hold you again in my arms."
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "this photo is created using many many photos of water splashing photoshopped together. after many hours behind a screen piecing together and color correcting, the elephant finally came to life."
Brenda Johnson - Painting
Josiah Blevins - Painting
Brenda Johnson - Drawing
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "A small crab uses a shell to hide from swarming seagulls on the beach."
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Sarah Jones - Painting
Artist's story: "This work is graphite and watercolor, two media I use frequently when painting portraits of others. As a portrait artist, I am rarely the subject of artwork, so for this year's theme, I decided to paint a self portrait with elements of my own story as the background."
Josiah Blevins - Painting
Brenda Johnson - Three-Dimensional Art & Folk Art
Artist's story: "This sculpture is made with polymer clay, acrylic paint, needle felting, glass eyes, a terrarium, earth clay for the baby, and assembly of some false leaves."
Ashley Wojcik - Drawing
Artist's story: "This expresses the Bible story of how Jesus made the woman with the issue of blood whole. To illustrate this, the two of them are the only ones not made of lines since Jesus makes them (and us) whole."
Martin Morales - Painting
Artist's story: "I give all to this Country I love"
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Logan McKnight - Painting
Artist's story: "A lot of terrible things have been happening in my personal life recently, so I decided to begin inking and see where it took me."
Autumn Warner - Painting
Artist's story: "A nice day in the countryside where the only thing that can be heard is the wind rustling the trees and the metal of the barn and the horn of a train on its daily route."
Mary Helen Hendrix - Painting
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Brenda Johnson - Painting
Artist's story: "This painting glows in the dark, unfortunately I don’t know a good way to display the painting both light and dark."
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design
Artist's story: "my cat tired of photos"
Logan Williamson - Painting
Artist's story: "The Galactic Republic falls to a coup from the inside, life-long friends Obi-wan Kenobi (left) and Anakin Skywalker (right) fight to the death on the fiery planet of Mustafar, and a child is born. One who may bring hope to the ruined galaxy.
All right for Star Wars belong to Disney"
Amelia Brinkman - Painting
Artist's story: "The subject in my painting is a multicolored goddess, adorned with a white veil and cotten skirt tied around her waist. With her wings of white and gold she draws her arrow ready to aim and strike down her foe."
MTC Library National Library Week Art Contest
MTC Library and the MTC Foundation are sponsoring an art contest supporting the theme of National Library Week, "There’s More to the Story".
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 20th and April 5th, 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. Prizes will be awarded on Wednesday, April 12th, at 2:00 pm.
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 12th, at 2:00 pm at Airport Library, AC 225.
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