Elizabeth Reid of Holley, N.Y., who will be a senior at SUNY Fredonia this fall, was awarded a Best of Show at the 2011 Best of SUNY Student Art Exhibition for an intaglio print she created. Ms. Reid is one of three student artists in the show selected to receive $1,000 scholarships. The Best of Show pieces are on exhibit this summer at the New York State Museum in Albany.
Her award-winning work is a 22-inch by 15-inch intaglio print created using copper plates that have been etched with different acids, then inked and printed. She produced this piece as part of a series in which she explored the concepts of neighborhood, home and human consumption on several levels.
The 2011 SUNY Student Art Exhibition is showing works produced by students this past year from art departments across SUNY’s 64 campuses. It is a juried show featuring 64 works that were selected from more than 144 artistic pieces submitted. The exhibit features the traditional areas of drawing, painting, photography, printmaking, ceramics and sculpture, along with digital imaging and mixed media installations. The annual exhibit of SUNY student art was inaugurated in 2002 to bring the work of SUNY's many talented student artists to a wider audience.
Also this spring, Ms. Reid had one of her pieces selected for the 88th annual Spring Show of the Erie Art Museum in Erie, Pa., another juried show.
At Fredonia, where she is majoring in Visual Arts and New Media with a concentration in Sculpture, she was also a recipient of the George W. Booth Award in Sculpture, a scholarship for students in the sculpture field.
She is a 2008 graduate of Holley High School in Orleans County.
With a student body of 5,700, SUNY Fredonia is the third-largest four-year university in Western New York, although the university prides itself on the fact that few people come away from its campus with a large-school feeling. It is home to a world-renowned School of Music, one of the most respected colleges of Education in the country, a School of Business, and the SUNY Fredonia Technology Incubator. In all, the university offers over 100 degree programs in the liberal arts, natural and social sciences, communication, mathematics, communication disorders, and computer and information sciences. SUNY Fredonia earned the 10th spot among Top Public Universities in the North in the 2011 edition of “America’s Best Colleges,” published by U.S. News & World Report. The university has continually been among the survey’s selective rankings since 1989.
