We’re celebrating 10 years of beautiful student art featured on the President’s annual holiday cards!
Each year, URI students submit their artwork for consideration — photos, illustrations, paintings, multimedia, etc. — and the artist whose piece is chosen for the president’s card by Dave and Lynn Baker-Dooley receives $500. The second-place winner, selected by Jeannette E. Riley, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, receives $250; their artwork is featured on the arts and sciences holiday card.
The winners’ artwork is seen by thousands of professionals nationwide. Deadline for art submissions is usually in late October, but students are encouraged to consider their submissions for the next contest whenever the mood strikes.
Here’s a look back at the last 10 years of cards, and the artists who submitted their work:
2019: Lindsey Corse ’21, Cumberland, R.I.
Lindsey is pursuing a degree in landscape architecture, and minoring in sustainability and community planning. For this piece, she used a daytime image of Roosevelt Hall as a base and manipulated the photo using Adobe Photoshop — digitally drawing in snow, snowman, and lighting — to create a peaceful winter night scene. Lindsey likened the process to the perspective renderings she creates for landscape architecture project proposals, using a combination of hand-drawing and photo manipulation.
2018: Alessandra Antonelli B.F.A. ’19, Jamestown, R.I.
Alessandra is pursuing a bachelor of fine arts in studio art. For this piece, she used a variety of different media and combined them digitally, including watercolor wash and overlaid Photoshop brush work to create texture.
2017: Joanne Liu ’20, an art major from Westerly, R.I.
2016: Laura Michaud ’17, an English and art major from Scituate, R.I.
2015: Jayne Enos ’16 from North Kingstown, R.I.
Jayne was an English major, and minored in Spanish and secondary education. Her digital painting was titled “Cardinal’s Solitude.”
2014: Jordan Towle ’17 from Wakefield, R.I.
Jordan majored in art and political science. Her painting of URI’s Eleanor Roosevelt
Hall, was titled “Snow Monoprint.”
2013: Alison Cleary, M.S. ’10, Ph.D. ’15, San Francisco, Calif.
Alison received her master’s degree and her Ph.D. in oceanography from URI’s Graduate School of Oceanography. Her photo, titled “Mount Brittania,” was taken on a trip to Antarctica where she collected krill samples for her dissertation research.
2012: Arielle Weston ’15, Wakefield, R.I.
Arielle majored in fine arts and nutrition.
2011: Hannah E. Travaglini ’13, from Havertown, Pa.
Hannah majored in art and philosophy. Her piece was titled, “Wandering to Kayla’s House.”
2010: Evan Pagano ’15, M.S. ’19, from Rhode Island.
Evan’s photo was titled “Robin’s Roost.” Evan majored in animal science and technology, and biological sciences. He received his master’s degree in business.
