Congratulations to the following students for their outstanding artwork in the 2012 Spring Fling Juried Art Show! 

Purchase Awards
President’s Purchase Award:      Emily Jones                          “Iris”                           watercolor
Dean of Students’ Award:   Susan A. Bruffey       “Sunny Soup Pot”             oil
Workforce Development & Lifelong Learning Purchase Award: Anna Robertson      “Color In the Dirt”    digital photography
Excellence in Art Purchase Award:  Lincoln Humphry        “Drew Barrymore”      gouache
Spring Fling Flyer Design Award:    David Scherrep            “Spring Fling 2012”         digital graphic design
Student’s Choice Award:   Deborah Dryer         “Reflection Dazzle”                        watercolor
Alumni Association Purchase Award: Susan A. Bruffey  “Reproduction of Cezanne Bay”    watercolor
Institutional Effectiveness Purchase Award: Lisa Jean Allagas  “A Path to Take” photography and Lisa Jean Allagas  “Confluence”  photography
IET Director Award:     Geoffrey Hubbard         “Tiger”                        colored pencil
IET Technology in Art Award:   Tyler Clark                  “Steve Jobs”                          gouache
VWCC Follett Bookstore Award:   Donna Etzler             “Friends”                            oil
Office of Financial Aid and Veterans’ Affairs Purchase Award:    Lee C. Niebuhr            “The Old Colonial”                silver gelatin fiber print
English Department Purchase Award:    Kaleb Lynch       “Daffodils”               watercolor
LASS Division Award:  Mariah Davis              “African Crowned Cranes”       mixed-media

Juried Awards
2012 Judge: David Mickenberg -Executive Director, Taubman Museum of Art

Best in Show
Eddie Resnick            “That Place you Go”     drawing colored pencil

First Place
First Place Drawing:   Thomas Oshida “Pental Technical Drawing”      digital drawing
First Place Graphic Design/Typography:    Emily Jones    “Floyd Fest Logo”     graphic design
First Place Photography: Paul Calvert  “H2O”   photograph
First Place Painting: Hillary Turpin “Number 5”  watercolor
First Place Mixed Media/3D:     Mateo Marquez “1”   mixed-media

Second Place
Second Place Drawing:   Margie Osgood     “Illuminated Peacock”           drawing color pencil
Second Place Graphic Design/Typography:   Matt Reyer   “Cause & Effect”    graphic design
Second Place Photography:       Rachel Graham                    “the 5’s”                     photography
Second Place Painting:      Donna Etzler                    “Friends”                          oil
Second Place Mixed Media/3D:  Kim Mabes                “Timepiece II”                 mixed-media

Merit Awards
Lee Niebuhr  “The Old Colonial”    photography
Daniel Bivins  “ Melieu Magazine Cover"   graphic design
Mariah Davis  “African Crowned Cranes”   mixed-media
Tyler Clark  “Holden Effigy”   drawing
Kim Mabes  “Reflection”    painting

Honorable Mention Awards from Southern Graphics
Adele Gleixner   “One Tree”     photography
Johnathan McLaughlin   “  Selft Portrait through obscurity”    photography
Megan M. Webb      “Swing”        typography
Brittany Sink      “Salvador Dali”    mixed-media
Laura Hughes     “Bioshock Propaganda”  mixed-media
Eddie Resnick     “She”           drawing
Jessica Griffin      “Spectacle”  drawing
Rachel Abbott         “Iris”               oil
Deborah Dreyer     “Reflection Dazzle”      watercolor
Tyler Marcus      “Oranges and Mugs”     oil

 The Virginia Western Art Faculty and Art Club want thank everyone who entered, everyone who helped with this year's show. The department also wants to thank all our awards sponsors for their support for the Spring Fling Art Show!

There is one last chance to get a stamp for the Hall Career Center Passport!

Attend Career Bytes on Winning Interviewing Skills next Tuesday, May 1, at 12:30 p.m. and 5:15 p.m.

Register by calling 857-7298 or emailing rrice@virginiawestern.edu.

This coming Sunday at 4 p.m., join your Virginia Western friends at the ballpark! April 29th is Virginia Western night with the Salem Red Sox! Get in free with your Virginia Western ID!

The Baja team has been hard at work on the 2012 competition car. Come out and support them as they unveil the new car and sell hamburgers, hot dogs, barbecue sandwiches and homemade desserts!

• 11 a.m. - 3 p.m.
• Friday, April 27th
• Webber Hall - 1st floor plaza outdoors

Come out and support the team!

Western Greenhouse is busting at the seams with annual bedding plants, vegetable plants and herb plants. We have Vinca, Marigold, Petunia, Coleus and Dianthus  just to name a few. We also have perennials available ready for planting in your landscape. Stop by the greenhouse this week to check out the plants available for your garden.

Spring Plant Sale
Wednesday, April 25, 9 - 11 AM
Thursday, April 26, 9 - 11 AM
Friday, April 27, 9 - 11 AM
Saturday, April 28, 9 - 11 AM

10" Hanging Basket Combos $10.00 each, Cell pack Annuals and Vegetable Plants $1.75 each,  

2.5" Vegetable Plants $.75 each,  4.5" Premium Annuals $2.75 each 

Hope to see you at the sale.
Thank you for supporting the Horticulture Club and the Community Arboretum