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\n\u201cRage\u201d by Alaska Gilmour<\/p>\n
\n\u201cRage\u201d by Alaska Gilmour<\/p>\n
Artist Alaska Gilmour let friend Natalie Greenshields name her entry in Stetson\u2019s 29th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition \u201cbecause I honestly didn\u2019t think it would win anything,\u201d Gilmour said of her quasi-anthropomorphic ceramic bust of a Brahman bull. Gilmour\u2019s ceramic, named \u201cRage,\u201d won the Ann West Hall Best of Show Award.<\/p>\n
The exhibition runs through Dec. 7 at the Hand Art Center on Stetson\u2019s DeLand campus. Sixty-two student artists submitted 129 works to be considered for the show.<\/p>\n
Stetson art faculty chose 77 pieces from 36 artists to be exhibited. Gisela Carbonell, Ph.D., curator of the Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College and exhibition judge, chose the winners of six awards. Stetson students voted on the Student Choice Award.<\/p>\n
All Stetson students regardless of major were eligible to participate in the exhibition. This year\u2019s show includes works by 16 non-art majors.<\/p>\n
Gilmour, a junior with a double major in psychology and studio, currently is in Thailand as part of an exchange program.<\/p>\n
By email, she said she \u201cjust thought it would be cool\u201d if Greenshields titled the ceramic \u201cbecause she went to the effort of entering it for me on my behalf. When Nat told me what she had called it, I burst out laughing. I told her it definitely wouldn\u2019t win anything now with a name like that, but I guess I was wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n A fifth-generation native of Zimbabwe, Gilmour noted her family, who still lives there, breeds Brahman bulls. \u201cI\u2019ve grown up around these floppy-eared cows my whole life, so I guess that was my inspiration for the piece,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n Gilmour said there \u201care not a lot of higher education options in Zimbabwe\u201d and she chose Stetson because of Florida\u2019s warm climate \u201cand I liked how small Stetson is and how much history it has.\u201d<\/p>\n Her main mediums are oils and ceramics, but she had never worked in the latter until she took a class under Professor Dan Gunderson in her first year.<\/p>\n \u201cI had to beg them to let me into the class because it was already full, and I took the class without much intention of pursuing ceramics,\u201d Gilmour said. \u201cBut I fell in love with the medium and loved working with Dan.\u201d<\/p>\n Gilmour is uncertain which of her degrees she will pursue as a career path.<\/p>\n \u201cI get bored easily so I\u2019m sure I\u2019ll chop and change careers,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s good I have two very different degrees to follow. I\u2019ll definitely carry on making art throughout my life \u2013 I\u2019m just not sure if it will be professionally or just as a hobby. Life is too fleeting to have a set plan, things change all the time and therefore so will I.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n If you Go: Center hours are 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday through Wednesday and Friday; 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday and noon-4 p.m. Saturday. Closed on national holidays, holiday weekends and fall, Thanksgiving and winter breaks. Information: 386-822-7270.<\/p>\n Story is an adapted excerpt from an article originally posted on November 28, 2018\u00a0 at Stetson Today<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u201cRage\u201d by Alaska Gilmour Artist Alaska Gilmour let friend Natalie Greenshields name her entry in Stetson\u2019s 29th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition \u201cbecause I honestly didn\u2019t think it would win anything,\u201d Gilmour said of her quasi-anthropomorphic ceramic bust of a Brahman bull. Gilmour\u2019s ceramic, named \u201cRage,\u201d won the Ann West Hall Best of Show Award. The … <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/blog.stetson.edu\/world\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/66393B23-7277-4FF2-B72B-3678EE0DE393.jpeg\")
\nAlaska Gilmour
\nPhoto\/Stuart Gilmour<\/em><\/p>\n
\n<\/strong>The 29th Annual Undergraduate Juried Exhibition runs through Dec. 7 at the Hand Art Center on Stetson\u2019s Palm Court\/Quad, 139 E. Michigan Ave., DeLand. Admission is free and open to the public. Designated parking is available in the lots at East Arizona Avenue.<\/p>\n