The Mossey Library announced the winners of the first Mossey Art Show on Monday, with freshman Lauren Schlientz winning the library staff vote and junior Faith Lamb winning the student vote with her self portrait.
“I’m honored to have been chosen, especially because there were many other beautiful works,” Lamb said in an email. “Thank you to everyone who voted for me! And a huge thank you to Mark Naida for voting for it multiple times.”
According to Public Service Librarian Brenna Wade, the idea for a student art show in the library came from a focus group of student library workers that included seniors Hannah Wolff and Maddie Whitney and junior Jonathan Wolff. Wade said the focus group had previously suggested putting more art in the library before they came up with the idea for the art show.
“Personally, I thought the idea was fun and it seemed to go over well,” Wade said.
Whitney said she hopes to cover more walls in the library with artwork to improve the study environment as well as encourage student writers.
Over Christmas break, students received an email inviting them to submit one piece of two-dimensional artwork to be judged by students and library staff. By the competition deadline on Jan. 29, the library had received eight submissions
The library will display both of the winning pieces until the end of the semester.
Whitney said she hopes the library will host another art competition in the future.
“We got very high quality pieces,” Whitney said. “Professor Knecht even commented on the quality of work we received, so we were very thankful to the artist community, and also thankful for the amount of votes we received.”
