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NACOGDOCHES, TEXAS - A number of scholarships and grant awards presented annually through the Stephen F. Austin State University School of Art were announced earlier this year. Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ School of Art Director Christopher Talbot announced the following recipients of the 2013-2014 art scholarships during the opening of the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Art Alliance Spring Show:

• Katherine Holmes, awarded a Patricia Roberdeau Mast Art Scholarship. Holmes is also the recipient of the Ed and Gwen Cole Dean's Circle Award in Art.
• Kim Jenkins, awarded a Patricia Roberdeau Mast Art Scholarship.
• Christina Herrera , awarded a Patricia Roberdeau Mast Art Scholarship.
• Elizabeth Wisdom, awarded a Regents Scholarship for Housing.
• Michael Mitcham, awarded the Eloise Chambers Adams Art Scholarship, the John and Doris Daniel Art Scholarship and the Debbie Simpson/Terry Miller Memorial Scholarship.
• Emily Yeats, awarded the Jack McKinney Memorial Scholarship in Art, the Melba Cranford Memorial Art Scholarship and the Stephen Weeks Memorial Art Scholarship.
• Cassandra Otto, awarded a Piero Fenci Scholarship for Ceramic Arts.
• Ashley Martin, awarded the Brian Philip Joseph LaBarbera Memorial Scholarship and the Art Alliance Scholarship.
• Nicholas Palella, awarded a Piero Fenci Scholarship for Ceramic Arts.
• Justin Herring, awarded the Elsie Arscott Art Scholarship.
• Coy Lothrop, an incoming student, awarded a Regents Scholarship for Housing.
• Le'Anne Alexander, awarded the Carolyn and Richard Skurla Graduate Scholarship.

The Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Alliance Spring Show was juried by internationally-renowned art historian and curator Peter Selz. Winners included:

First Place: Heather Wobbe for "Chandelier"

Second Place: Evan Davis for "Three Towers"

Third Place: Rebekeh Kennedy for "Robert Performing Surgery"

Honorable Mention: Rebekeh Kennedy for "Self-Portrait Revealing Scar"

Honorable Mention: Andrei Bucur for "Thinking"

Honorable Mention: Daniel Baugh for "Fish Frame"

Other awards announced recently included:

• Emilie Gaultier received the Karl Schlicher Outstanding Art Graduate for 2012-2013.
• Mia Sampietro received the Chris and Yvette Sidnell Highest GPA Award for 2012-2013.

The following awards were given by the Friends of the Visual Arts:

• Katherine Holmes was awarded the inaugural Gary Q. Frields Art Scholarship.
• Caleb Rose received the inaugural Charles Jones Art Scholarship for 2013-2014.
• Pamela Erhardt received a Graduate Art Scholarship for fall 2012.
• Brianna Deterling received the Graduate Art Scholarship for 2013-2014.
• Jesse Rodriguez and John Storm received incoming student scholarships for 2013-2014.

Friendship Grants were awarded to the following students and organizations for 2012-2013: Le'Anne Alexander to attend a national conference in New York City; Tyler Mitchan to attend a sculpture workshop in Scottsdale, Ariz.; Jill Albert, Jasmine Austin, Pamela Erhardt, Jacqueline Maher, Zach Maberry, Elizabeth Patino, Dylan Parkhurst and Blake Williams for Maymester traveling courses; Emily Grogan for her senior BFA exhibition; and Kat Garcia, Olivia Hopkins, Matthew Kane, Ashley Martin and Kelci Rolen for artwork expenses. Grants were also awarded to student members of Ad-Hoc, the national student advertising federation, to attend the advertising campaign competition in Oklahoma and to the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ Art Academy for kindergarten through sixth-grade students to attend summer art camp.