{"id":17429,"date":"2014-03-07T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=17429"},"modified":"2014-03-07T11:14:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-07T17:14:09","slug":"apsu-art-students-earn-several-awards-and-scholarships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2014\/03\/07\/apsu-art-students-earn-several-awards-and-scholarships\/","title":{"rendered":"APSU art students earn several awards and scholarships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-32965\" title=\"Austin Peay State University Department of Art - APSU\" alt=\"Austin Peay State University Department of Art - APSU\" src=\"http:\/\/www.clarksvilleonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/apsuart.jpg\" width=\"227\" height=\"45\" \/><strong>Clarksville, TN<\/strong> &#8211; February turned out to be a good month for the Austin Peay State University Department of Art, with several students earning prestigious awards and scholarships.<\/p>\n<p>Graphic design student Brooke Mckee was awarded a Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) scholarship for winning a Design Center student competition to design the visual identity for TBR\u2019s Critical Conversations Initiative. <!--more-->Chancellor John Morgan and Vice Chancellor Tristan Denley awarded her the scholarship during a presentation and awards ceremony in Nashville. The Design Center, taught by Professor Mark DeYoung, is a course where students work for real clients with opportunities to compete on design projects that get produced commercially.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to McKee\u2019s accomplishment, three APSU Bachelor of Fine Arts seniors recently won four gold awards at the 2014 Nashville Student Addy Competition.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chelsea Dixon<\/strong> won gold awards for two of her illustrations. Her unique, graphic style was developed using linocut techniques introduced by APSU Professor Jesse Shaw in the Printmaking I course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Taylor Rushing<\/strong> was awarded gold for her compelling animation, \u201cI Give You a Hamburger,\u201d produced in Professor Kell Black\u2019s Digital Imaging III class.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oscar Quintanilla\u2018s<\/strong> letterpress book, \u201cPick-up Lines\u201d (produced at the Goldsmith Press), also won gold, and the competition\u2019s Master of Ceremony read a different pick-up line from the book as he introduced each award category.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All gold award winners automatically move on to the Southeastern Regional Student Addy Competition in April.<\/p>\n<p>The award-winning work by these Austin Peay students represents the unique interdisciplinary possibilities available and encouraged by the art and design faculty at APSU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clarksville, TN &#8211; February turned out to be a good month for the Austin Peay State University Department of Art, with several students earning prestigious awards and scholarships. Graphic design student Brooke Mckee was awarded a Tennessee Board of Regents (TBR) scholarship for winning a Design Center student competition to design the visual identity for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,22196,1761,262,20900,22195,22197,512,825,16255,4226,4876,4114,10162,2475,4950,12862,8522,22198,19952,2138,2960],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-4x7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17429"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17430,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17429\/revisions\/17430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}