From the Office of the Dean...

July 2, 2009

"Lasting Valor" named Brunswick Street Gallery finalist

Dawn Hunter, an assistant professor of studio art, is spending the first part of this summer in Columbia and Vermont, while one of her drawings will be halfway around the world. The work, Lasting Valor, has been named a finalist for the 2009 Brunswick Street Gallery Works on Paper Prize in Melbourne, Australia.

Hunter’s work has been exhibited some 70 times since she arrived at the University in 2004. The Spectacle Spectacular series, of which Lasting Valor is a part, has been particularly well received, appearing at both university and commercial venues. But while she regularly shows her work nationally and internationally, this is the first time Hunter has ventured to exhibit in Australia.

Being selected for the Brunswick Street Gallery’s exhibition and being named a finalist for the Works on Paper Prize is an exciting honor, Hunter said. “I wanted to try to reach a wider audience with the Spectacle Spectacular work,” she said. “And as I researched possible venues, the Brunswick Street Gallery struck me as being very well-respected and pretty infl uential in shaping its local art scene. It’s a new gallery but clearly an up-and-coming one. So I am delighted to have been chosen for this exhibition.”

Hunter looks forward to exhibiting overseas again in the future. “The international exchange of ideas and perspectives can be such a stimulus to the creative process,” she said. “I just wish I could have traveled to Melbourne with my work. Next time, I hope to make that happen.”