Deans’ Choice Awards 2017
May 31st, 2017The Deans` Choice Awards begun in 2013 is an allocation of $500 granted to a Visual Arts Sector Program on an annually rotating basis for final exhibition work of their graduating students judged by a jury of 3 Deans. There is a $300 first prize and two $100 honourable mentions.
The student work is judged according to a certain set of pre-established criteria with the work of the First Prize Winner displayed along with winners from previous years in the area outside of the 5B.13 Boardroom .
This year the award in May will go to the Graphic Design Program with the ceremony occurring at 6:00 p.m., May 31st, 2017 on the second atrium level in Conrod`s during the vernissage for the graduating students of the program.
Project Update
The annual Deans`Choice Awards took place this year on May 31st,2017 to a very HOT and crowded vernissage in Conrod`s.The awards were granted to Graphic Design this year as they are rotated through the various Visual Arts Sector programs with one program as recipient every year.
The three winners were Sarah Tue-Fee( 1st prize),1st Honorable Mention was Meghan Dove and Second Honorable Mention went to Thailandese student Karuna Kemrugka. The prizes were dolloped out by our three sector Deans Andréa Cole,(Creative and Apploed Arts) Diane Gauvin (Academic Dean) and Ray Bourgeois, Dean of Science, Medical and Engineering Technologies)
The prize winners were selected though a rigorous screening process first initiated by the Chair Luc Parent where the students were made aware of the prize early in the semester and at the pre-vernissage viewing where the selection by the Deans alongwith advice and direction was given by the Graphic Design faculty present took place.
The awards are always a wonderful experience made more so by a daunting choice which had to be made from a class of 42 graduating students.
