Students Receive Awards

Johanna Colijn, “Still Limber”
Genesis 2008 Award in Sculpture


Haruka Takemoto, “An Imperfect Dream”
Genesis 2008 Award in Ceramics


Students Receive Awards for Ceramic Work
This past spring, ceramic work by Old Dominion University art students Haruka Takemoto and Johanna Colijn was included in “Genesis 2008”, an exhibition of regional college student artwork at the Peninsula Fine Art Center. Haruka’s piece “An Imperfect Dream,” a wheel-thrown porcelain bowl with hand painted underglaze imagery was selected for the Genesis 2008 Award in Ceramics. Johanna received the exhibition’s Award in Sculpture for her piece titled, “Still Limber,” a hand-built figurative sculpture made from unglazed white stoneware clay. The exhibition included work by students at other local colleges and universities, including William and Mary, Hampton University and Christopher Newport University. This was the first year that the annual exhibition was expanded to include Old Dominion University and other Norfolk area colleges. The work submitted for the exhibition was completed in Anna Freeman’s Advanced Ceramics course, and both students are continuing their work in clay this semester.

Sculptural Teapots

Haruka Takemoto

Carrie Spencer

Intermediate and Advanced Ceramics

Ashley Pickin

Lauren Coppedge

Lauren Coppedge

Johanna Colijn

Faculty and student ceramic works in “500 Tiles”

Art Education/ceramics professor Richard Nickel and five ODU art students enrolled in Anna Freeman’s Introduction to Ceramics course last year are included in the new book 500 Tiles: An Inspiring Collection of International Work published by Lark Books. For the students, the images are their first published artworks. Last spring, adjunct faculty member Anna Freeman challenged her students to create drawings and paintings on ceramic tiles based on words and phrases that stood out in their daily lives, particularly from advertisements, and then submit photos of their work to the 500 Tiles book. The artworks of Jennifer Victoria Smith, Mary-Paige Cannon, Haley Mitchum, Ashley Padaon, and Summner Bradshaw were accepted for publication. Anna Freeman previously had some of her students’ work published in the Lark 500 Pitchers book.