LibGuides: National Library Week Art Contest: 2024 Entries and Winners

2024 MTC Library Art Contest Winners

Needlefelted Spoonbill

Winner - Best Overall

Brenda Johnson

Artist's story: "A needle felted spoon bill. Each feather was hand felted, wire spun, brushed, glued, and trimmed."

Butterflies on the moon

Winner - Best Painting

André Griffin

Image of monarch butterflies flying around a yellow moon

Grasp

Winner - Best Drawing

Riley Cook

Artist's story: "Made with ballpoint pen and highlighter."

Image of a drawing of a person holding their arms around their waist surrounded by faces

An Iconic Duo

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!"

Two small sculptures: a trash can and a raccoon

Devona

Winner - Best Photography & Graphic Design

Ava Perez

Artist's story: "This peice is inspired by my biggest supporter and hero, my abuela."

Image of white orchids against a black background

Incandescence

Winner - Best Photography & Graphic Design

Ava Perez

Black and white image of a wrinkled hand by a music sheet

Sanctuary

Winner - Best Photography & Graphic Design

Ava Perez

Ne Barbaros Cedamus

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."

image of two black hands touching against a backdrop collage of eyes

2024 MTC Library Art Contest Entries

Afforest

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."

Painting of grassy meadow with a tree and two women and two children walking

A hand full of honey

André Griffin - Painting

a moth flew by

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."

An Iconic Duo

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!"

Butterflies on the moon

André Griffin - Painting

Celestial Guardian

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."

CMYK Balloon Dogs

Mary Elaine Kent - Painting Photography & graphic design

Artist's story: "This is a linocut print portraying four balloon dogs in cyan, magenta, yellow, and black ink. CMYK is the industry standard color space used in commercial printing presses to produce printed materials."

Devona

Ava Perez - Photography & Graphic Design

Artist's story: "This peice is inspired by my biggest supporter and hero, my abuela."

Embrace

Riley Cook - Drawing

Artist's story: "Made with ballpoint pen."

Float

Valentina Phan - Three-dimensional art & folk art

Flowers for mom

Shelby Jackson - Painting

Grasp

Riley Cook - Drawing

Artist's story: "Made with ballpoint pen and highlighter."

Hidden

Valentina Phan - Photography & graphic design

Ignitus

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."

Incandescence

Ava Perez - Photography & Graphic Design

Intrigue

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."

Kraven's Last Hunt

Shelby Jackson - Painting

Lion

Brenda Johnson - Photography & Graphic Design

Artist's story: "river bank zoos male lion taken with a 500mm lens canon & camera."

Melanated figure

André Griffin - Painting

Modern Abstract Rainbow

Sara Rabieh - Painting

MTC Commercial Graphics Communications Logo

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."