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Hollis Sigler Manifest Award

for graduating seniors in Art and Art History or Design

The Hollis Sigler Manifest Award was established to recognize the work of outstanding graduating seniors majoring in Art and Art History or Design who are showing their work at Manifest.

• How to be Considered
  No application is required. Graduating Art and Art History and Design seniors participating in Manifest will be considered by the faculty of their respective concentrations.
• Judging Criteria

  Students showing work and participating in Manifest will be considered by the faculty of their respective concentrations. Judging for each concentration will take place as follows:

  • Advertising Art Direction: The Advertising Art Direction faculty will review student work at the annual Manifest exhibition. The professionalism and originality of individual portfolios will be evaluated. A decision will then be made of which student's body of work best represents the spirit of the Hollis Sigler Award.
  • Art History: The Hollis Sigler Manifest Prize in Art History is presented to an outstanding graduating student in the Art History program. The prize is awarded after the annual Art History Conference at Manifest, in which the graduating Art History majors formally present their original research projects. The prize will be determined by a panel of judges composed of the full-time Art History faculty and two part-time Art History faculty.
  • Fine Arts: The Fine Arts faculty will review the work in the Manifest exhibition and will vote on the winner of the Hollis Sigler Award on a scoresheet. By 2pm on Manifest Day, the winner will be determined and an announcement will be made at the show itself, both by verbal acknowledgement during the reception and written signage placed in both spaces before the beginning of the reception.
  • Graphic Design: The Hollis Sigler Manifest Prize in Graphic Design is presented to one outstanding graduating student who shows exceptional promise in the field. The prize is determined and awarded by the Graphic Design faculty during the Manifest exhibition.
  • Illustration: Full-time Illustration faculty will review work displayed in the Manifest exhibition. Based on the sophistication, clarity, and cohesiveness of the student presentations, the faculty will vote on the "best in show" as the winner of the Hollis Sigler Award.
  • Interior Architecture: The Interior Architecture program will determine the awardee based on a compilation of points given by participating program faculty members. A scoring rubric, including presentation, concept, and depth of project development (and others) will be utilized.
  • Product Design: The Product Design faculty will determine the Hollis Sigler Product Design prize based on: the sophistication and clarity of a project as demonstrated through graphic visualizations (posters), and the validation of a project as demonstrated through prototyping and testing.
• About Hollis Sigler

  Hollis Sigler was a Chicago-based artist whose autobiographical narrative paintings often focused on her long struggle with breast cancer. Her paintings during the 1990's incorporated specific references to cancer in images of fragmented bodies and texts added to the works. A series of oil pastel paintings titled Breast Cancer Journal: Walking With the Ghosts of My Grandmothers (1992-1993) included historical information and statistical data on the disease, from which Ms. Sigler's mother and grandmother also suffered. The series was exhibited at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, and Hollis Sigler's Breast Cancer Journal, a book of related essays by Ms. Sigler, Susan M. Love and James Yood, was published by Hudson Hills Press in 1999.

  Ms. Sigler was represented by Carl Hammer Gallery and Printworks Gallery in Chicago and Steven Scott Gallery in Baltimore and was a founding member of Artemisia in Chicago, one of the first women's cooperative galleries in the United States. She also showed with Barbara Gladstone Gallery in New York in the early 1980's. She was awarded the College Art Association's Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, and also received the Chicago Caucus for Women in the Arts Lifetime Achievement Award.

  Ms. Sigler attended the Moore College of Art in Philadelphia and the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an honorary doctorate from Moore College in 1994. She taught at Columbia College Chicago for more than 20 years.

• Scholarship Terms
  • Award amount is a stipend up to $500
  • Recipients must be seniors showing their work at Manifest
  • Recipient will receive the stipend in late May
  • Award is limited to courses for which a student registers through MyColumbia and does not cover Columbia Online courses
  • Columbia College Chicago reserves the right to withhold the scholarship in any year in which, at the sole discretion of the scholarship committee, suitable candidates cannot be found among applicants
  • Awards that are used for expenses other than tuition, books, fees, supplies and equipment required for courses of instruction are considered taxable income to the recipient. Thus, the Hollis Sigler Manifest Award may be taxable and should be included in your tax return. Please see your personal tax advisor if you have further questions.

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