“Fire Writing” Wins ADDY Award and Commencement Contest

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This year has been a crazy rollercoaster of responsibility and opportunity. I’m just now recovering from what’s been the busiest school year of my life. First on the To-Do List… My studio art roommate urged me to participate in the local ADDY Awards this year with her. She suggested I submit the video spot I did on Josiah Vogel and his pyrography, so I grit my teeth together and paid the entry fee, hoping I wasn’t going to have to eat Ramen the next six months for nothing (kidding, guys, kidding. I only eat Ramen…often…ish….) So this spring when the awards were announced, my roommate and I eagerly looked through the winners’ names, slightly disappointed we couldn’t find our names. We shrugged as we put my laptop aside, trying not to let each other know how disappointed we were. Then the next day my classmate congratulated me. “For what?” I asked, slightly bewildered as I gathered my things to leave after the bell. My mind ran through the things she could possible be referring to, but none of the options seemed big enough to warrant a congratulations. “Your ADDY Award,” she explained, the slightly flicker of doubt crossing her bright … Read More

The Drawing Journey

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Lots of people say they “can’t even draw stick figures,” but drawing isn’t *just* a God-given talent. It takes practice to get good.

Proposed Redesign of Indians Collegian Mascot

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At my college, Greek life is called a “collegian” instead of a sorority, and I joined the Indians as a freshman. Despite loving the collegian and the friends I’ve made here, I really dislike their logo. Not only did the American “Indian” look white, it was a man…for a women’s collegian. The collegian dates back to the 70s, and back then all mascots were men regardless of the type of collegian (to mimic college sports teams, supposedly) and more modern collegians have more female representation, but we don’t. So while I was league rep, I decided to propose a new logo that was more ethnically accurate and women representative. While the college has it on file somewhere, they told me that they tend to update the collegian mascots in batch because of the high cost to replace all the branding across campus. With the political controversy around valid American Indian representation, I doubt my collegian will survive a rebrand, but one can hope. I tried to keep to the same art style and colors as the original mascot, but with a younger, feminine face and a slightly darker and redder skin tone. Even if it never gets used, it was … Read More