Corain Marneweck received a Best in Show Wright Gallery Scholarship at the closing reception for the \u201cFresh Forward\u201d student exhibition on Wednesday afternoon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The annual Wright Gallery<\/a> exhibition features student projects from the Texas A&M School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts<\/a> and School of Architecture<\/a> from summer 2022 to spring 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Marneweck won for her diorama \u201cWhiskers and Whiskey: Where Felines Unwind.\u201d It features a three-dimensional scene enclosed in a box, and the viewer can look through a small cutout to see three cats at a bar. One is \u201ca little too drunk off of milk,\u201d while a cat bartender shrugs and a third cat is \u201cobviously appalled by the whole scene,\u201d Marneweck said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The sophomore in the Visualization program constructed the diorama with foam board and popsicle sticks, and the characters were sculpted with clay. Her project was created in the Visualization class Principles of Design II, taught by Senior Lecturer Dmitiri Koustov.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The bar scene was inspired by Marneweck\u2019s cat and two of her friends\u2019 cats, she said, who are each depicted in the piece. During the design process, Marneweck said she had to plan according to lighting, perspective and scale, all while creating a scene. She recalled hoping everything would stay glued together and remain in place when she turned in the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cIt was really unexpected,\u201d she said of winning the scholarship. \u201cI did not expect it to get Best in Show because there is some amazing stuff here.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Three student projects earned honorable mention recognition:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Rebecca Pugh, instructional assistant professor and Wright Gallery curator, said the honors were selected by distinguished guest juror Mark Chen, a photographic artist, educator and author from Houston. Chen was chosen through a committee made up of faculty members from both schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The next Wright Gallery exhibition is \u201cCaracas Moderna” by artist Marian Ichaso Lefeld, which opens Sept. 18 and continues through Oct. 26, with a closing reception and artist talk on the final day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Top photo: Tim McLaughlin, interim dean of the School of Performance, Visualization and Fine Arts, and Rebecca Pugh, instructional assistant professor and Wright Gallery curator, presented Corain Marneweck with the Best in Show Wright Gallery Scholarship. Photo by John Peters, School of Architecture.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n