Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award recipient for 2016: Vibhuti Krishna
Vanderbilt University Department of Art is pleased to announce the recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet award for 2016. This year’s recipient is Vibhuti Krishna, Solon, OH. As a Hamblet winner, she will receive a $25,000 prize that provides the funds for a year of art research and travel, culminating her solo show at Vanderbilt in one year.
Vibhuti work explores the “In Sanskirt, prana means life-force, with specific respect to breath. It is concepetually analogous to qi in Ancient China, or penuma in Ancient Greece. Wellness in “traditional medicine”, a term that applies to pre-scientific forms of medicine, is inextricably linked with a balanced life force that flows through the body. Wellness is achieved through meditative, ritualistic practice, and beginning to resurface as an integrative approach to health.
The $10,000 Merit Award was presented to Lucy Rahner, Cincinnati, OH.
Lucy’s artwork is am to make people feel human and experience the full reality of their existence. The work will communicate the transcendental elements of truth, beauty, and goodness, while also respecting the way humans are grounded in a material world. The idea of “sacramentality” permetes her work-that is, the notion of material things expressing unseen realities.
Senior Show 2016 is on display Monday through Friday from 9 to 4 until May 10. The gallery is located in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Art Center, 25th and Garland on the Vanderbilt University campus.
The other graduating art majors exhibiting include: David Brandon, III, Jeffrey Gao, Lucy Gonzalez, Jacob Lee, Michael Oberti, Julie Choi, Morgan Pinkleton, Lisa Valcarenghi and Diana Zhu.
Jurors selected to serve for the competition are all distinguished artists and educators. Jurors this year included Lisa Bukawsky, Professor of Art, Sam Fox School of Design & Visusal Arts, Washington University in St. Louis; Soo Sunny Park, Chair of Studio Art Department, Dartmouth College , Hanover, NH and Greg Pond, Professor of Art, Department Chair, Sewanee the University of the South, Sewanee, TN.
The Department of Art has supervised the awarding of the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award since 1984. The award was established by Clement H. Hamblet in honor of his wife, whom he met while she was studying abroad. The Hamblet Award is meant to provide the means for travel and independent art activity for one year, culminating in an exhibition at Vanderbilt.