CWU Poster Winners: Winged wonders
Nuwave Gallery is thrilled to announce the winners of the Winged Wonders Art Show, a collaboration with Central Washington University Professor Matthew Wenz. The show, designed to highlight the talent of junior-level students, included a special visit from gallery owner Erin Oostra and artist Kyle Krauskopf, who provided professional critiques to the students as they created their posters.
After careful deliberation, Kyle Krauskopf, Erin Oostra, and Jill Schaffer, the director of Keen, selected the following winners:
Best use of typography
Most creative use of typography or best combination of typefaces
BARN OWL AWARD
Best combination of type and image
Most thoughtful use of visual synergy
MAGPIE AWARD
Best illustration
Most refined use of style
RAVEN AWARD
Most conceptual
Most surprising/creative interpretation of the theme
GREAT BLUE HERON AWARD
Judges Award: Most Locally Inspired
KEEN AWARD / Birds Eye View Award
The other 10 posters in no particular order that will be shown alongside these winners are:
Not So Different by Z Morris
Some Birds Don't Chirp, They Wine by Niecia Herrera
Cranes & Cowboys by Hanna Callender-Bohman
American Goldfinch Barn Quilt by Amy Walker
Sh!t by Madeline Landon
Fly High by Luke Ndolo
Goldfinch and Chick by Edwin Tixta
Flying Folds by Jennifer Branch
Cute, Curious and Bold by Dayana Huayana
Winged Wonder by Caleb Cleland
While not all posters could be displayed physically at once, all of the students' works will be available for viewing and purchase on our website at nuwavegallery.co (links will go live Tuesday 4/30). If a poster displayed in the gallery is sold, the buyer can take it home, and Nuwave will replace it with another poster from the collection. Nuwave Gallery hopes that everyone will have the chance to showcase their work throughout May as posters sell and are replaced, or purchased online and shipped to their new homes.
We invite you to join us at Nuwave Gallery to celebrate the incredible talent of Central Washington University's junior-level design students in our Winged Wonders Art Show. Immerse yourself in the beauty of Central Washington's landscape and birds, as captured by these budding artists, and explore the additional artworks and photography by 16 other talented local artists. Don't miss this opportunity to support our local art community and witness the creativity inspired by the natural wonders of our region.
