Goldfarb Award Winners

A vivid oil painting and a figure of an aging superhero won top honors at the 17th Annual Alexander A. Goldfarb Student Awards Exhibition.

Kristen Wojcoski, a senior majoring in painting, was one of two Hartford Art School students to win the Purchase Award. She received the award for her painting, Pipes II (2004).

George Hakkila, a senior ceramics major, won the Purchase Award for Elderly Cat Woman (2005), made of ceramic and mixed media.

Wojcoski and Hakkila were awarded $1,000 each, and their winning entries will be added to the permanent collection of the Joseloff Gallery.

More than 200 works of art in a variety of media were entered into this year’s competition, and approximately 60 were selected for the exhibition, which ran from March 15 – April 6 at the Joseloff Gallery. The awards were presented at a closing reception on Tuesday, April 5.

The juror for this year’s show was Joanna Marsh, curator of contemporary art at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford.

The exhibition is presented through the Alexander A. Goldfarb Endowment Trust to recognize the talents of young artists. It is open to undergraduate and graduate students in all of the university’s schools and colleges.