Seniors Kelly Boyle and Emily Rawdon are recipients of the 2010 Schupf/Lorey Senior Art Prize. Since 2007, this prize has been awarded to a graduating ԱƵ student or students for outstanding work as identified by Paul Schupf ’58 and Robert McVaugh, professor of art and art history.
“Professor McVaugh and I worked long and hard to choose these two first-class art works. Owing to the overall high quality of this year’s senior art exhibition, several other entries might have been chosen,” said Schupf. “My gratitude to Bob McVaugh for his intelligence, fine eye, and patience, as well to Bob Tyburski for coordinating the process leading to this award. My special thanks to Evan C. Lorey ’10 for his gift which allowed the college to award an additional prize this year.”
Boyle, a native of New Hampshire, is an art and art history major and an Islamic studies minor. Her ensemble of four strikingly inventive video pieces, “Story of Some Kind,” explores personal and media imagery in the context of American discomfort with ambiguity.
Rawdon, of Kentucky and daughter of Dick Rawdon ’65, is a double major in art and art history and theater. Her photographic installation, “Usual Flow-voids of the Circle of Willis are Preserved,” explores the psychic mingling of euphoria and fear associated with epileptic seizures. In August she will be entering the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
The awards were given at the senior awards convocation in Memorial Chapel on Saturday, May 15. See a full list of award recipients .