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2026 Winter Awards

May 8, 2026

The Penny W. Stamps School of Art & Design is delighted to announce the names of the Stamps students who are recipients of the 2026 Winter Awards. This recognition honors students based on a wide range of criteria, including their academic achievements and creative excellence. These awards reflect not only their talent and dedication, but also the creativity, perseverance, and passion they bring to our community each day. We are grateful to Nooshin Hakim Javadi, John Marshall, and Franc Nunoo-Quarcoo, who served on the faculty review committee for these awards.

Recipients for BA Senior Studio Awards, Integrative Project Awards, and the Integrative Project Written Thesis Award were selected by Stamps faculty in recognition of work on culminating senior projects.

Congratulations to our 2026 award recipients!

Anna Bychinsky Award for Excellence in Visual Arts

  • Katja Honkanen
Expressive students laughing and talking amongst one another in a school hallway, with lockers decorated. Among the students, there is a dark and looming figure-head attached to a snake neck listening into one of the groups of students' conversations. Unlike the students' expressions, the figure-head attached to the snake neck's expression is more serious and intent on eavesdropping into a conversation.
Katja Honkanen, Nosiness, Oil on canvas

Anne Reek Amendt Scholarship

  • Alexander Berko

Arden Fate Memorial Award

  • Victoria Selektor
A necklace with a Y shaped branch as its primary figure out of silver metal, with a marbled triangular purple stone at the bottom and tow small circular stones towards the top of the pendant.
Victoria Selektor, Mystic Forest, Metal jewelry work

Bershad Textile, Print and Pattern Design Prize

  • Erin Case

Candy R. Wei Prize for International Studies in Art and Design

  • Adelina Akhmetshina
  • Chaz Dunselman
  • Yueshan Jiang
  • David Byun
  • Rachel DeVeyra

Emil Weddige Award

  • Ella Graeb
  • Laura Rodriguez Rios
16" x 20" image of painting.
Laura Rodriguez Rios, La Luz, Oil painting

Irene Bychinsky Bendler Award in Design

  • Eve Mellis
  • Ziyu Wang

Kristoffer M. Gillette Memorial Scholarship

  • Audie Hobson
Black and white poster showing 26 letters of the "Tile Display" typeface design
Ellie Lee, Tile Display Typeface, Print

LeRoy E. and Helen L. Kiefer Traveling Fellowship in Design

  • Ellie Lee

Lyn H. Silberman Scholarship

  • Baxter Baas

Matthew C. Hoffman Award in Jewelry Design

  • Addison Sutter

Maxine and Larry Snider Design Award

  • Ashley Glabicki
  • Silas Williams
BeatBox Desk showcasing the pegboard detailing of the desktop as well as being placed within the context of music production gear. The pegboard holes function to reduce cord clutter for music producers as they work.
Silas Williams, BeatBox, Plywood, Acrylic, Metal, PLA Filament, spray paint finish

Riggs Hoenecke Scholarship Fund for Design

  • Chloe Huang
  • Eunice Kim

Robert D. and Betsy D. Richards Memorial Award

  • Qingfang Liu
  • Joy Son
On the right side of the image is a Hua Mo sculpture. The sculpture sits on a stainless steel frame, with its main body made of dough. It incorporates elements not traditionally part of Hua Mo, such as plastic wheat stalks, toy cars, and a music box on top. From afar, the sculpture resembles a traditional Hua Mo, but closer inspection reveals its fusion with modern components. On the left side of the image, a video plays on a television set, with a pink glow emanating from behind it. In front of the video, seating is formed by stacked printed flour sacks.
Qingfang Liu, One Wish and Two Prayers, Multimedia Installation (Video + Sculpture)

Stamps Creative Work Awards

  • Helena Chin
  • Maisie Derlega
  • Elijah Laker
  • Tyler Meerschaert
  • Oliver St Cyr
  • Veronica Weinberg
A ceramic vase with a rounded, slightly tapered form is shown against a plain white background. The surface is coated in a mottled patina-green glaze with variations of turquoise and earthy brown. Twelve small sculpted hands protrude from the sides of the vessel in different orientations—some open, some curved, some reaching outward, creating a playful, yet slightly surreal appearance. The glaze pools in the creases of the hands and along the vessel’s surface, giving the piece an aged, weathered look.
Eli Laker, Baby Vase, Ceramic

BA Senior Studio Awards

This award recognizes students that are deemed to have the most promising BA project in their graduating class.

  • Emma Ostermeyer
  • Laura Jhirad
Laura Jhirad at the opening reception for Path Forward: The 2025 BA Senior Studio Exhibition
Laura Jhirad at the opening reception for Path Forward: The 2025 BA Senior Studio Exhibition

Integrative Project Awards

For the Integrative Project Award, Stamps faculty choose two students from each IP section to receive special recognition for their projects. The projects are judged throughout their process — developing and researching the concept, testing and prototyping materials, making and remaking, critiquing and revising, finishing, and installing.

  • Hana Ichikawa
  • Tomaz Konja
  • Ery Millican
  • Ofelia Nunez-Regueiro
  • Elke Julia Ott
  • Ian Rocco Paglia
  • Hannah Leigh Powell
  • Isabella Weier
  • Joy Yang
  • Matthew Zide
A relief sculpture of a figure on horseback
Tomaz Konja, The Fighter Who Stands Steadfast

Integrative Project Written Thesis Award

This award recognizes the superior quality of the written portion of a student’s Integrative Project thesis, judged on the overall excellence of the written work in research and composition.

  • Nik Roy
Sculptural pieces by Nik Roy
Work by Nik Roy