Current art and media students from Southern California colleges and universities were invited to submit engaging new work to be showcased in Palos Verdes Art Center’s 9th Annual Alpay Scholarship Exhibition, Now Trending. This year’s scholarship award recipients are:
1st Place: Catherine Wang, California Institute of the Arts. $5,000
2nd Place: Shruti Walker, Otis College of Art and Design. $3,000
3rd Place: Sheng Lor, University of California, Los Angeles. $2,000
All media were considered, including but not limited to: Painting, Drawing, Printing, Sculpture, Glass, Ceramics, Fiber Art, Photography, Video, Film, VR (virtual reality), AR (augmented reality), Installation Art, Performance Art, and Mixed Media.
JUROR: Fafnir Adamites
Fafnir Adamites (they/them) holds an MFA degree from the Fiber and Material Studies Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA in Photography and Women’s Studies from UMass Amherst. Fafnir is an Assistant Professor and Head of the Fiber Area at California State University, Long Beach and has taught workshops and intensives at Arrowmont School of Art and Craft, Snow Farm: The New England Craft Program and Women’s Studio Workshop.
Fafnir’s work has been shown nationally, including the recent group exhibition 9 x 9: Contemporary Quilts & Containers at Palos Verdes Art Center. They have received several grants to support their exhibitions and studio practice, and they have been awarded residencies at MASS MoCA, Women’s Studio Workshop and Vermont Studio Center. Fafnir also curates contemporary fiber work such as the exhibit Displacing Structures at Angels Gate Cultural Center Art Gallery in Spring 2024 and juries exhibits such as the Morgan Conservatory’s 12th annual juried exhibition New Terrain Spring 2024.
Fafnir speaks about their studio practice frequently and has been selected to speak at 2 recent events: The Textile Society of America’s Symposium “Shifts and Strands: Rethinking the Possibilities and Potentials of Textiles” and “Thinking Through Textiles: Future Pedagogies” at UCLA’s Broad Art Center.
Fafnir is a Board Member and Co-Chair of the Surface Design Association and a member of the Textile Society of America and North American Hand Papermakers.
