Ai NEW YORK CITY STUDENTS CREATE TOMORROW

Ai New York City President, Tad Graham-Handley and Academic Dean Dave Moughalian welcomed faculty, staff and students to a recognition ceremony held yesterday in the Gallery.

The celebration was to recognize all of our students who either won or participated in such prestigious shows as the Art Director's Club New York show, the Leron D&D Window Display competition, the Save-A-Sample competition and our very own Edible Art Fashion Show. The faculty members and Department Chairs who encouraged students to enter were also recognized for their outstanding contributions. President Graham-Handley distributed certificates to the students and personally acknowledged the educators who encouraged and helped the students achieve these honors.

The competitions and their participants follow:

Edible Art Competition - Fashion Design students were asked to submit sketches for garments made of fruits and vegetables. Selected sketches were fashioned into edible garments and displayed in the gallery and first, second and third place winners were selected from the group (photos of the work appear in a previous post). The participants were:

Sara Kadosh

Keyon Smith

Donte Payne

Anthony Trinidad

Alexandria Sorto

Jasmine Brown (3rd place winner)

Wendy Calderon (2nd place winner)

Qutashia Lee (1st place winner)

Leron D&D Window Display Competition - Entrants were asked to submit design sketches as well as an explanation of their design for a window display. The display had to feature the Leron bath products that were on display at the Leron showroom. The winners of the competition were asked to create their design in a street-level lobby window at the Decorators & Design (D&D) building on Third Avenue. There were cash awards to the winning team and their design will remain on display along with their names and the name of the school for a period of three months! The winning team was:

Alexandra Winokur

Terressa Maisonet

Tamara Belgrave

Save-A-Sample Competition - Sponsored by SpecSimple.com, Save-a-Sample is a recycling effort that gathers up unused brochures, fabric, finish cards from design and architectural firms and delivers them to area design schools (Ai New York City is one of the schools that benefits from these donations). Each year, they have a hand-drawing competition, in which students who enter (schools must be listed as a participating school) are asked to create exceptional hand drawings. A $1,000 scholarship is awarded to the grand prize winner and the their school also receives a monetary award. We are proud of the fact that Ai New York City has won the top prize for three consecutive years!

For more information on Save-a-Sample please visit http://www.specsimple.com/SaveASample/studentcompetition.html

This year's participants were:

Tamara Belgrave

Paulina Grzechnik (selected the winner of the competition!)

Art Director's Club New York Show - Five Ai New York City students were selected to show at the prestigeous ADC New York Show. Students currently enrolled in undergraduate or graduate-level programs in advertising, graphic design, photography, illustration, and interactive media are eligible for the competition, and are invited to submit published or unpublished work in any category. Student work is judged separately, but by the same outstanding panel of jurors as the professional competition.

The ADC Club New York Show participants were:

Sophie Cooke

Stalin Espinal

Jeffrey Kasper

Ayinde "A.J." Tarrant

Andrew Browne

To all of the students and the outstanding educators who helped them get there, congratulations! We are all very pleased and proud!