2023 Best in Writing – Amber Hashmi xerophytes → a poem the desert lacks the blandishments to make my heart contentbut—nonetheless— these desert plants, oh, they think different, for desiccation does not phase them,in the slightest bitfor their stomata...
2023 Best Digital Painting and Drawing – Lily Revere King of Perception MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Digital drawing This piece shows the duality of sight (through the perception of light and color) in which we perceive tigers, to the unique way that...
2023 Best in Sculpture – Mira Hughes Ginkgo Ginkgo MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Lasercut taskboard While making this, I was thinking about the way leaves look when they fall. From a certain point of view, the overlap of leaves can look like they are...
2023 Grand Prize Winner – Zoe Polish My Body’s Betrayal MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Ceramic sculpture “My Body’s Betrayal” is 28 ceramic pieces intended as a large-scale representation of pancreatic cells developing Type 1 Diabetes. Each...
2022 Best in Animation – Nithisha Nantha Kumar via GIPHY Pattern MediumAbstractExplanation of Work Digital animated photo (.gif) Pattern is an Adobe After Effects plugin coded in C++ that creates Islamic star pattern-style animations using the Hankin’s...
