Tatiana Tsaruk
  • Class of 2016
  • Valdosta, GA

Tatiana Tsaruk's "Vera Wang Bridal Boutique and Apartment" Wins Third Place at VSU Art Competition

2016 Apr 21

Tatiana Tsaruk's Vera Wang Bridal Boutique and Apartment, a 24-inch by 36-inch interior design presentation board created with Sketch Up, Auto Cad, and Photoshop, won third place at the 18th annual Juried Student Art Competition sponsored by Valdosta State University's Department of Art. The award-winning design was recently featured in an exhibit at the on-campus Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery.

A university-wide invitation to participate in the Juried Student Art Competition was issued earlier this year to all currently enrolled VSU students. Regardless of their major area of study, students were encouraged to share their artistic talents by submitting a maximum of four two-dimensional and/or three-dimensional works, including graphic design, illustration, interior design, animation, drawing, printmaking, painting, aqueous media, jewelry, photography, ceramics, small metals, sculpture, and mixed media.

Julie Bowland, Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery director and professor of art, said that 56 students submitted more than 160 works of art for the Juried Student Art Competition.

Elizabeth Turk, a professor of photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design's Atlanta campus, reviewed the submissions and selected 49 pieces to be featured in the exhibition, which ran March 21 through April 8, and to compete for first-place, second-place, third-place, fourth-place, and merit awards.

"In selecting the works for this year's ? competition ? I was struck not only by the diversity of media and the creative and technical skills of the students but also by the ideas that were being addressed through the work," she shared. "The voices of the young artists and designers in this exhibition ? (were) clearly speaking 'out loud' as they ? (dealt) with everything from contemporary design challenges to the difficult and complex social issues emerging in our time."

Tsaruk, the daughter of Natalia Tsaruk of Syktyvkar, Russia, will graduate on May 7 with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in interior design. She is a member of Alpha Lambda Delta and Phi Kappa Phi and was recently named to the 2015-2016 Who's Who Among Students in American Universities and Colleges. She is a recipient of the Tammy Lee Fortner Scholarship and the Lee Bennett Scholarship and a former event coordinator for the Society for International Students. She presented at the 2014 Undergraduate Research Symposium.

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