King Exhibition and Awards 2025

All awards are based on artistic merit. In 2013, Gretchen King (BA in English ’59) worked with the Department of Art & Art History to establish the King Competition and Exhibition, the department’s first juried student exhibition. Since that time fellow alums, Meridee Moore (BA in Philosophy ’80) and Kevin King (BFA in Fine Arts ’81) have joined Gretchen in generously supporting the annual competition and exhibition, allowing the department to award undergraduate and graduate students monetary prizes, and to showcase their work in the Visual Arts Complex.

Congratulations to our 2025 Art & Art History students

Graduates:
1st place: Ana González Barragán
2nd place: Ethan Cherry
3rd place: Devon Narine-Singh
Honorable mention: Maya Buffett-Davis, Ben Grossi

Undergraduates:
1st place: Jane Strode
2nd place: Nicole Sansglyph
3rd place: Riley Ramsay
Honorable mention: Rebecca Nagel, Iris Yu

Graduate Student Awards

Ana González Barragán, First Place

Untangle, 2024, White Yule Marble, Steel Pipe, 140 cm x 90 cm

Lincoln Memorial, 2024, White Yule Marble, Steel Pipe, Diamond Wire, Bronze, Steel PTR.

Untitled, 2023, PVC Curtain, Steel frame, 140 cm x 157 cm

Ethan Cherry, 2nd Place

Fish Tank, 2024, oil on repurposed silkscreen frame, 24" x 20"

Twilight Meadow, 2024, oil on panel, 20" x 18"

Portal, 2024, oil on cardboard, 10.5" x 10.5"

Devon Narine-Singh, 3rd Place

Even If You Survive This, 2025, Digital, 27 minutes

Even If You Survive This, 2025, Digital, 27 minutes (still image)

Maya Buffett-Davis, Honorable Mention

The Yes, No, Maybe, Machine, 2024, glazed ceramic, found wood, geared motor, button, batteries, wire, magnets, 12 H x 15 W x 16 D inches

Wheel of Answers For the World, 2024, glazed ceramic, wood, steel, magnets, ball bearing, spring, 30 H x 24 W x 4 D inches

Wheel of Answers From the Road, glazed ceramic, wood, steel, magnets, ball bearing, spring, 30 H x 24 W x 4 D inches

Ben Grossi, Honorable Mention

CRASH, 2025, 24" x 23" x 31"

Important messages about items in your cart (Save For Later), 2024, 36" x 28" x 12"

Machine Looking, 2024


Undergraduate Student Awards

Jane Strode, 1st Place

Who's skin is this? 2023-2025, Oil on Canvas, 3 x 18” x 24” inches.

today I will lie on the ground and stew in this misery, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 21.5” x 30” inches.

She held me, and now I hold her memory, 2024, Oil on Canvas, 60” x 42” inches.

Nicole Sansglyph, 2nd Place

Tether - Dreams "Boundaries," 12/19/24, Acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 40” x 60”

Tether - Dreams "Escaping Escapism” 2/2/25, Acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 17.5” x 30”

Tether - Dreams "Nightmare Nightlight”6/13/24, Acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 15” x 22.5”

Riley Ramsay, 3rd Place

Bee Balm, 2024, Wet Cyanotype, 13"x19"

Feeling Upside Down, 2024, Cyanotype, 7.5"x11"

Prairie Pinwheel, 2025, Quilt Block, 18"x18"

Rebecca Nagel, Honorable Mention

Reclaim, October 2024, Ceramics, glaze, epoxy, moss preservative, 6”x10”x17”

Whispers of the Willow, September 2024, Gouache on paper, 9"x12"

She Who Will Never Love Again, November 2024, Oil on canvas, 18” x 24”

Iris Yu, Honorable Mention

Weight of Desire, 2024, Plywood and Vinyl Paint, 77x24x67”

Against the Grain, 2024, recycled plywood and found wallpaper, 84x60x84”

Mother?, 2024, plywood and acrylic paint, 72x84x84”