We would like to congratulate our two award winners of the 2022 Michael Miller Scholarship Fund:

Evgenia Vasiloude - Thematically and conceptually, her work originally focused on the female figure, embodied with references to mythology, especially, the goddess of nature and fertility. Vasiloude still explores creatively subjects regarding womens’ identity, issues on nature and the environment, while in the use of media for the creation of her work she experiments with nontoxic printmaking techniques. Various of her artwork dealing with the above subjects have been exhibited in the form of large scale installations within the concept of art in public spaces.

Lorren Lowrey - Lorren's interest focuses on fusing art history motifs, animal subject matter, and religious symbolism into a loosely suggestive narrative. Sculpted in porcelain, these anthropomorphic arrangements carefully teeter on the edge of macabre, while examining the personal tether between growth and pain. Her influence stems from both personal struggles with anxiety and depression as well as 17th century Dutch still life paintings. Her deliberate use of often deconstructed animal compositions synthesized with common fruit or flora create a narrative imbued with tension and wonder.