Announced: The 2009-10 Art Collection Writing Award Winners
We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2009/2010 Art Collection Writing Award. In a first, this year’s competition garnered entries from four New School divisions – Parsons, Lang, NSGS, and NSSR – by students from such diverse programs as Design & Management, International Affairs, Fashion, Fiction & Non-fiction, Writing & Literature, Media Studies, Poetry, Anthropology, and Fine Arts.
On April 20, the entrants celebrate their accomplishments in an informal gathering with acclaimed American artist Elaine Reichek, whose work Gauguin at the Harmonium was the inspiration behind one of the prize-winning submissions.
This year, the prizes were awarded to the following students:
$400 First Prize Creative Response
Carmella Laughlin, MA in Media Studies, NSGS
for her poem KIT KAT, written in response to Kara Walker’s Event Horizon in Arhold Hall
$400 First Prize Critical Response
Carly Dintaman, Design & Management, Parsons The New School for Design
for her text Tseng Kwong Chi: Alienated Tourist, written in response to the artist’s work of that title
$200 Second Prize Creative Response
Dorothy Krajewski, M.A. in Liberal Studies, The New School for Social Research
for her text Foreclosure, written in response to Elaine Reichek’s Gauguin at the Harmonium
The winners were appointed by a jury composed of:
Neil Gordon, Dean, Eugene Lang The New School for Liberal Arts
Carin Kuoni, Director, Vera List Center for Art and Politics
Joshua Mack, Vera List Center Advisory Committee
Rosemary O’Neill, Associate Professor of Art History, School of Art and Design History and Theory, Parsons The New School for Design
Robert Polito, Director, MFA Creative Writing Program, The New School
Silvia Rocciolo, Co-curator, The New School Art Collection
and, for the first time, a student representative
Tess Drahman, MA in Media Studies, The New School for General Studies
