Department of Studio & Digital Arts (SADA

CONGRESSIONAL ART COMPETITION AWARDS CEREMONY

The Department of Studio & Digital Arts (SADA) had the pleasure to host the 2021 Congressional Art Competition Awards Ceremony in the Green Hall collaborative space in early May. High school students from the 5th district of Virginia submitted their work into the annual competition. Some of the SADA professors had the opportunity to judge the work and present the awards alongside Congressman Bob Good. The winning work will hang in the Capitol for the next year.

SADA received the Illuminate Grant for “Augmenting Studio & Digital Arts Curriculum through Virtual Experiences,” which proposes to upgrade the existing 3D Innovation lab by installing a full virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) setup with room tracking. Students will be able to incorporate VR and AR into their projects, which gives them the hands-on experience and skills they need to work in the most innovative industries.

Student Awards and Accomplishments:

• Graduate students won gold and Best of Show in the 2021 district level of the American Advertising Awards for their campaign, “The One Stop Spot.” • Graduate students won 2nd place in the Creative and Artistic category for their oral presentation on environmental graphic design during Research Week 2021. Contributors include Madison Fogarty, Olivia Smith, Sydney Rabe, Morgan Poole, Natalie Dodd, and Kennedy Luke (pictured right). • Undergraduate and graduate students won 3 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and a Judge’s Choice award in the 2021 Western Virginia Advertising Awards Competition.

Faculty Awards and Accomplishments:

Professors Stacy Cannon, Audra Rygh, and Brianna O’Neal were accepted to the Looking Good Juried Exhibition at Florida Atlantic University. Their work, “Broads of Burden,” was featured at the international exhibition and illuminates the plight of the modern working woman, inviting user participation by asking viewers to add “just one more” task to our subject’s already formidable list of responsibilities.

SADA student Julianna Thacker is a junior majoring in graphic design and minoring in photography who was chosen for a special opportunity for the community: “In December of 2020, I was offered a chance to redesign Amherst County’s Public Works logo. I took the offer, and after three weeks of revisions, Adobe Illustrator errors, and two meetings with the county officials, the logo was finished. The brand-new Amherst County Public Works logo contains the recycle symbol, county colors, and the signature Amherst ‘A.’ The recycle symbol suggests the many things that Public Works does for Amherst, which is primarily recycling the old (waste, buildings, landscapes) and renewing them once again. The different colors represent the different forms of business within Public Works and Amherst. I believe the logo fully encapsulates the laws of design and reinitiates the wonders of Amherst, Virginia.”

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