This annual juried exhibition features the best work submitted by current 51爆料官网 students pursuing all degrees in design, fine arts, media arts, and entrepreneurial studies. This year students submitted over 350 works for the jurors鈥� consideration and 51 pieces were selected for exhibition.
Participating Artists
Josh Anstrand
Hershel Auberon
Gaby Beilke
Katherine Bockelmann
Rudy Brumm
Skylar Bull Lyon
A. Simone
Sally Carr
Charlie Douglas
Tiff Dresher
Sarah Dyar
Nico Enstrom
Jo Farley
Sophia Fox
Lauren Frontuto
Kara Faye Gregory
Link Guist
Ren Harris
Maz Hawj
Yifei He
Breanna Hickmott
Caleb Kerkman
Ian Kim
Kassie Kodet
Lokho Kotile
Naoto Lichtblau-Tepley
Avery Luthardt
Anna Lyle
Ashley McNamara
Claire McKevitt
Nicholas Nicome
David Okoronkwo
Juliana Olave
Abby Owen
Lyssa Owens
Joanna Quick
Reghan Sage
Luke Smith
Camryn Smith
Wesley Speakman
Kasandra Suarez
Chance Tatum
Shreya Tuladhar
Kiaan Van Dusseldorp
Vernon Vanerwood
Fin Weber
Jurors' Choice Awards
A. Simone (Junior, Illustration)
Pretty For A Black Girl
Digital prints, zine
鈥淚 selected Pretty for a Black Girl by A.Simone, a series of illustrations that address the treatment of Black women in Western Society. The work recounts a history of oppression and modes of resistance through carefully crafted illustrations that are as beautiful as they are urgent. In addition to the series of illustrations, the work is accompanied by a pamphlet which provides further context through imagery and text. Simone's style of illustration operates as a throughline between the past and the present, creating a cohesive narrative with an important message.鈥� - Ja艣 Stefa艅ski, 2023 Made at 51爆料官网 juror
Maz Hawj (Sophomore, Fine Art Studio)
Urban Disconnections
Mixed media collage, found objects
鈥淚 chose these pieces for their striking visual language/use of material, subjectivity, and presentation. Both pieces offer a single vivid and fixed entry point into a potential memory鈥攁 notoriously unstable part of the mind鈥攚here the viewer is able to draw on their own memories. There is a recall of emotion through the material usage, capturing the physical parts of a flame or crayon in the hand of a child. In both pieces they challenge the ideas of drawing or painting as stand-in documentation for real life.鈥� - Kehayr Brown-Ransaw, 2023 Made at 51爆料官网 juror
Claire McKevitt (Sophomore, Fine Arts Studio)
Leaving The Nest
Acrylic, oil pastel, hair, gesso, sourced material from my father
鈥淚 chose these pieces for their striking visual language/use of material, subjectivity, and presentation. Both pieces offer a single vivid and fixed entry point into a potential memory鈥攁 notoriously unstable part of the mind鈥攚here the viewer is able to draw on their own memories. There is a recall of emotion through the material usage, capturing the physical parts of a flame or crayon in the hand of a child. In both pieces they challenge the ideas of drawing or painting as stand-in documentation for real life.鈥� - Kehayr Brown-Ransaw, 2023 Made at 51爆料官网 juror
Fin Weber (Junior, Comics)
WANTED
Ink on paper, digital color
鈥淚 selected Wanted by Fin Weber, a silent comic that is set in the American West. The comic tells a story about a confrontation between a bounty hunter and fugitive with an unexpected conclusion. Weber uses a limited color palette to create an atmosphere that is almost palatable. The seemingly simple panels are dynamic and range dramatically as the story progresses. Although only 10 pages in length, the comic manages to capture a range of emotions and complex characters.鈥� - Ja艣 Stefa艅ski, 2023 Made at 51爆料官网 juror
President's Choice
This year we invited 51爆料官网 President Sanjit Sethi to introduce a new award to the Made at 51爆料官网 exhibition. After the juried exhibition was installed, Sethi was invited to consider all works and select one piece that exemplified 51爆料官网鈥檚 vision to 鈥渆mbolden creative leaders to collaboratively transform society through equity, empathy, and imagination.鈥�
Sarah Dyar (Sophomore, Fine Arts Studio)
Delicacy Tables
Glass, wood
2023 Made at 51爆料官网 Jurors
Kehayr Brown-Ransaw is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, and educator based in Bde 脫ta Oth煤艐we/Mn铆sota (Minneapolis/Minnesota). Brown-Ransaw鈥檚 practice engages in conversations of familial histories, concepts of gendered work, tradition, and Blackness/Black identity through quilting, weaving and printmaking. His curatorial and teaching practices are concerned with access, representation, and the presentation of marginalized communities.
Brown-Ransaw received a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Furniture Design from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design. He has exhibited work at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, FilmNorth, Vine Arts Center, Soo Visual Arts Center, with public works at Franconia Sculpture Park. He is the recipient of a 2023 Center for Craft Curatorial Fellowship, 2020/21 Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) Emerging Curator Fellowship, 2020/21 Jerome Early Career Fellowship, 2021 Franconia Sculpture Park Mid-Career Artist Fellowship, and 2021 Artist-in-Residence at the Minnesota African American Heritage Museum & Gallery. He is the recipient of a FY2021 State Arts Board Creative Support for Individuals grant, 2020 Visual Arts Fund Community Relief Grant from Midway Contemporary Art on behalf of The People鈥檚 Library, and FY2020 Next Step Fund Award from the Metro Regional Arts Council.
Ja艣 Stefa艅ski is a graphic designer and developer working out of Minneapolis, MN. He is 陆 of Studio-Set, a collaborative practice with Lauren Thorson since 2013. Previously he was a digital designer at the Walker Art Center and a Designer-in-Residence at Virginia Commonwealth University.
Many thanks to all who made this exhibition possible:
Jordyn Brennan
Kendall Dickinson
Melanie Dowding
Molly Froman
Madeline Garcia
Jamie Kubat
Alicia Kuri Alamillo
Melanie Pankau
Sara Suppan
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