Artwork created by Sacramento State students will be displayed at the Student Art Awards Exhibition to be held in the Else and Witt Galleries from Feb. 12 to Mar. 7. A reception will be held on Feb. 12 from noon to 2 p.m., where the awards will be announced, and Scholarship money will be granted to winning artists.

Every fall, this event is open to both graduate and undergraduate students. This year, eight graduate students and approximately 20 undergraduate students entered the competition.

A panel of four judges met on Feb. 2 to choose the artwork to be displayed in the exhibition. According to Catherine Turrill, chair of the Art Department at Sac State, the artwork will be chosen according to aspects such as skill and creativity.

The mediums that the contestants practiced are widely ranged from paint to sculpture.

“The students are definitely experimenting in different mediums,” Turrill said.

Turrill went on to describe a piece of artwork that was admitted into the exhibition. The student used a bedroom cabinet as her medium of choice. When describing the overall sense of medium and artwork that Turrill observed so far, Turrill said, “the artwork this year is very conceptual in design.”

Rollin Potter, Director of the School of Arts at Sac State, will present several awards to winning students at the reception. There are four awards set aside for undergraduates, three from the Raymond and Joyce Witt Scholarship and one from the Frederick M. Peyser, Sr. Prize in Painting.

Graduate students will be given one award from the JAM Inc(JoAnne Marquardt) Award Scholarship and several from the Increase Robinson Memorial Fellowship.

Artwork of undergraduates will be displayed in the Witt Gallery, and the artwork of graduates will be displayed in the Else Gallery.