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VU Department of Art announces the 2018 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipients

Posted by on Tuesday, May 8, 2018 in News and Events.

The Vanderbilt University Department of Art is pleased to announce the recipient of the prestigious Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet award for 2018. This years recipient is Joshua Austin Forges from Davie, Florida. As the recipient of the Hamblet award, Josh will receive a $25,000 prize that provides the funds for a year of art research and travel, culminating with a solo exhibition in Space 204, the main gallery space of the department of art, in one year.

Forge’s installation work decentralizes cultural hierarchies by re-appropriating every day artifacts, using them to create self-portraits. He reimagines the use of objects as double entendres and through strategically unstable play with tactile landscapes, he created multidisc installations.

The $10,000 merit award was presented to Nia Margaret Warren from Cincinnati, OH.

Forges’ and Warren’s exhibitions can be viewed as part of the SPICY: Senior Show 2018 on display in Space 204, the experiment/contemporary gallery space, on the second floor of the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center. This exhibition features the work of the full senior art major class: Victoria Chitwood, Lauren Michelle Ballejos, Connie Ge, Katie Stark, Hannah E. Albers, and Cecilia YeJi Kim.

The Senior Show 2018 is open Monday through Friday from 10:00am to 4:00pm until May 11, 2018.

This year’s Jurors selected to serve for the competition are all distinguished artists and educators within their field.  The jurors were: Alicia Henry, Fisk University; Yoonmi Nam, The University of Kansas; and Roger Beebe, The Ohio State University.

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 meant 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.

For more information, please contact the Department of Art at (615) 343-7241 or visit vanderbilt.edu/arts.