Awards announced for Northwestern student art exhibition

Awards have been announced for Northwestern College’s 49th annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, which was on display in Te Paske Gallery April 25 through May 6.

The exhibition featured paintings, drawings, prints, sculpture, ceramics and photographs, as well as mixed media and graphic design projects. While the students weren’t required to be art majors, all entries must have been created as part of a Northwestern College art course.

Alissa Sinclair, a junior art and elementary education major from Alamosa, Colo., was awarded Best in Show for her oil painting entitled “Don’t Take My Picture.”

Honorable mentions went to Lydia Steenhoek, a senior writing/rhetoric major from Grundy Center, Iowa, for her graphite drawing and wood print collage, “April Geometry,” and Kali Jo Wolkow, a senior journalism and art/graphic design major from De Smet, S.D., for her submission, “Raising Butterflies,” made from paint chips on canvas.

Dr. Heather Josselyn-Cranson, associate professor of music and director of music ministries at Northwestern College, served as the juror for the show. She has twice participated in collaborative exhibits involving the art, music and English departments at NWC. She also is an award-winning composer of hymns and has taken a printmaking class while on sabbatical. She holds a doctorate in the theology of liturgy and liturgical music from Boston University School of Theology.