In 2014, IUP was the host of the Pennsylvania Governor’s Awards for the Arts at Fisher Auditorium. This year, there is an IUP connection to the awards.
Students in IUP’s Wood Center collaborated on the design and construction of all six of this year’s award “objects”. This was done under the supervision of the Fall 2017 Windgate Artist-in-residence John Hallett and the center director and assistant woodworking professor, BA Harrington. This marks the first time in the history of the awards program that students have been a part of both the development and design process for the awards.
(Photo provided by IUP)
The objects have been described by John Miller, who had the winning proposal, is inspired by the Liberty Bell, with the message trying to be conveyed by the trophies is that liberty and artistic expression are “inexorably entwined”.
The awards were passed out on Thursday at the Lancaster County Convention Center.
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