Fall 2024 Juried Student Exhibition and Awards

The exhibition will remain on display in the Dayman Art Gallery through Nov. 22, 2024

by Katie Powers

Owensboro, KY (11/18/2024) — Owensboro Community and Technical College (OCTC) students participated in the college's Fall 2024 Juried Student Exhibition. The reception and awards ceremony occurred on November 13, 2024, in the Dayman Art Gallery on OCTC's Main Campus. The exhibition will remain on display in the gallery through Nov. 22, 2024.

The juror for this exhibition was David Jones, art faculty member from Southcentral Kentucky Community and Technical College (SKYCTC). SKYCTC and OCTC are two of sixteen colleges within the Kentucky Community and Technical College System. For this exhibition, Jones selected winners for merit awards as well as for the college's permanent art collection.

The Merit Awards, which include artwork completed this year went to the following students:

Alexis Haney for Scrapbooking, collage
Haley Burns for Lady Bug, woodcut print
Elizabeth Goodman for The Cat and The Butterfly, charcoal drawing

The College Collection Awards, which include artwork completed this year will permanently join the OCTC Student Art Collection. This collection of artwork is displayed throughout OCTC's Main Campus as well as Downtown and Southeastern Campuses. This semester's College Collection Awards are as follows:

1st Place Braiden Willard for Canvas, pencil & charcoal drawing
2nd Place Kelley Fallon for Tower, Decaying, ceramic
3rd Place Katie Pierce for Overstimulated, acrylic on canvas

You can view photos from the reception and awards ceremony on our Facebook page at facebook.com/owensboroctc. The community is invited to view the Fall 2024 Juried Student Exhibition in the Dayman Art Gallery, Learning Resource Center (LRE) bldg./Library, on OCTC's Main Campus, 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

To learn more about this exhibition's juror, David Jones, please visit his art website at https://www.jonesnforart.com/david-jones-art.

Those interested in exploring an associate in fine arts degree or joining the OCTC Art Club should contact OCTC AFA-Visual Art Program Coordinator, Abbi Ruppert at abbi.ruppert@kctcs.edu.

Owensboro Community & Technical College is one of the sixteen community and technical colleges that make up the Kentucky Community & Technical College System. OCTC serves the KY counties of Daviess, Hancock, Ohio and McLean. OCTC has three campuses in Daviess County and a Center and Annex in Hancock County. OCTC strives to serve the communities in the service area by providing associate degree education for transfer, state of the art technical education for students focusing on entering the workforce, customized business and industry solutions through the Workforce Solutions division, and adult education and business and industry testing through the SkillTrain unit.

The Kentucky Community and Technical College System is the Commonwealth's largest postsecondary institution with 16 colleges and more than 70 campuses. We also are Kentucky's largest provider of workforce training and online education. Through partnerships with business and industry, we align our programs to meet the needs of local employers. We help students fulfill their dreams of creating a better life through programs that lead directly to jobs or help them transfer to one of our four-year partners.

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