The Library received 91 submissions for this year’s contest. Students were asked to respond to any work of art in the Library’s internationally recognized collection. The responses were varied and included poems, essays, digital art, paintings, photographs, sculptures, and musical compositions.

For the undergraduate submissions there was a split decision, with the award going to Theresa Dietrich and Dan Asselin, both of whom wrote poems that interpreted paintings. Dietrich’s Expressions and Phrases was written in response to Lennart Anderson’s President Vernon Lattin and Asselin’s poem, Two Windows, was an interpretation of Harold Baumbach’s painting Aspen. The graduate winner was Roderic Williams, who wrote a musical response to Shahzia Sikander’s Embark-Disembark I-VI.

Thank you to everyone who submitted an entry, and congratulations to this year’s winners and those who received honorable mention.

This year’s winners are:

Honorable Mentions