2021 Art Awards Recipients

Congratulations to the 2021 Art Awards Recipients! If you missed the virtual ceremony, watch it here.

POD Award (Perspectives on Design)
Phoebe Quin Kong - Phoebe was raised in Los Angeles, CA, where her parents cultivated her appreciation of art from a young age. Phoebe graduated from Marlborough High School looking to pursue the humanities in college before discovering her passion for fine art during her freshman year at Dartmouth. Phoebe's area of focus in Studio Art has been large-scale paintings and drawings, and she works towards integrating her abstract language with her stylized human forms and faces. After graduation Phoebe will stay in Hanover as one of Dartmouth's Studio Interns, where she will build her portfolio to apply to graduate schools. 

Carson Levine - Carson was born and raised in New York City, where she developed an appreciation for the tension between the old and new. Carson's concentrations in Studio Art have been sculpture and printmaking, though she also started designing furniture while in Copenhagen her junior year. After graduation, Carson will remain at Dartmouth for another year to pursue her Master's in Computer Science with a concentration in Digital Arts. 

W. David Dance 1940 Fine Arts Award
Elizabeth Coleman - Elizabeth is Native Hawaiian and Cherokee and grew up on the island of O'ahu in Hawai'i where she lived an artistic lifestyle from a young age. She graduated from Kamehameha Schools Kapālama in 2017, weaving art throughout her developmental education. Elizabethʻs main concentration in Studio Art is Sculpture, but she loves intersecting different mediums, working digitally, and developing installations. After graduating, Elizabeth will join the Studio Art Department as one of the 2021-2022 Interns and live in the dorms as a Resident Fellow. She hopes to attend Graduate School for an MFA in Art and Design the following year.

Dylan Diloretto - Dylan grew up in Los Angeles, CA, where he started taking photographs in middle school. In Studio Art, Dylan has focused on photography, but more recently he's taken up sculpture and printmaking as well. Next year, he will remain in Hanover and work as an intern for the Studio Art Department.

Charlton McArdle - Charlton was raised in Chicago, IL, where his love for art and creativity was influenced by his mother, a fashion and interior designer, his father, who in his retired life has become a wood craftsman, a grandmother, who was a photographer, and many others. At an early age he had a keen eye for his own personal aesthetic. It was not until Dartmouth that Charlton fully took ownership of his creativity and pursued a major in Studio Art. Thanks to his many teachers, advisors, and peers, Charlton's paintings grew more sophisticated and complex over his four years. Still figuring out what the years after graduation hold for him, Charlton knows that the practical and life lessons he learned in BVAC will follow him forever. 

Robert Read Prize
Leeza Poselski - Leeza was born in Moscow, Russia and raised in Riverside, CA, where she graduated from Martin Luther King Jr High School in 2017. In her time at Dartmouth, Leeza has been involved in Women's Varsity Volleyball, the Office of Pluralism and Leadership, Multi-Faith Conversations, Panarchy undergraduate society, and the Rockefeller Center for the Social Sciences and Public Policy. She is a Geography and Studio Art major. Leeza's work in Studio Art is multidisciplinary, ranging from painting to drawing to sculpture across multiple mediums. After graduation, Leeza will move to Chicago where she hopes to continue exploring life through the arts.

Lauren Segal - Lauren was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan, where she first fell in love with color and delightful design. She majored in Studio Art — with a concentration in architecture — and minored in Digital Arts. Although Lauren focused on architecture during her time at Dartmouth, she spent senior year exploring her love of design and color in the form of painting and digital media. After graduation, Lauren will visit Tokyo to be with her dogs Patrick and Piper before moving to New York City to work as a UX/UI designer.

Becca Rorabaugh - Becca was born and raised in Fairbanks, Alaska. She could ski before she could put on her own snowsuit, which meant she skied regularly in the kitchen sans snow gear. That love of skiing has kept her chasing Olympic dreams throughout her elongated time at Dartmouth. Since beginning at Dartmouth in 2010 Becca has attended one spring-term at a time. The flexibility of the D-Plan has allowed her to spend the rest of the year nordic ski training and competing, culminating with this final run at the 2022 Olympic Winter Games. Becca's strong relationship with winter and natural spaces shows through in her work, instilling an affinity for organic patterns and a practical appreciation for the physical realities of space and materials.  Her primary focus is in architecture, but she is also very interested in painting, sculpture, and design. After the upcoming Olympic year Becca plans to work towards her master's degree in architecture.

Dylan Cerveny

Alanni Powell

Darien Jones

Wolfenden Fine Arts Prize
Madeline Ditzler - Madeline grew up in San Mateo, CA, and attended high school at Castilleja School. Madeline was fortunate to be raised near San Francisco's museums, where she discovered a love for art. Madeline's writing and portraiture explore emotional inheritance, identity, and human relationship to the natural world. Madeline's concentration in Studio Art has been in drawing and painting, with a focus in portraiture. After graduation Madeline will continue to pursue a future in art, working as a Studio Intern in Dartmouth's Studio Art department.  

Jack Randall Hardie II - Jack was born and raised in Charlottesville, Virginia, where he began working with his hands creatively at an early age. Jack was educated in Charlottesville at St. Anne's Belfield School until he was 15. At 15, he attended The Lawrenceville School in Lawrenceville, New Jersey as a boarding student. He would later graduate from The Lawrenceville School in 2017. Jack's formal concentration in Studio Art has been printmaking, although he has begun working with a mixed media approach and hopes to keep exploring materials in the future. After graduation, Jack will move back to Charlottesville, Virginia to work and to continue his creative pursuits entrepreneurially.

Melissa Brown Hurlock-Hobson 1993 Award
Rachel M. Tiersky - Ray was born and raised in Mahwah, NJ, where she has been drawing for as long as she can remember. Ray graduated from Bergen County Technical High School with a concentration in Commercial Art and Graphic Design in 2019. Ray's main concentration in Studio Art has been drawing, though she has a sincere love of textile and garment design.

The Class of 1960 Curatorial Fellowship Award
Mikaila Ng (Native Hawaiian) was born and raised in Waialua, HI. It is here that she developed a passion for expressing her Hawaiian culture and environment through art. Mikaila's main concentration in Studio Art has been painting, but she also enjoys drawing and metalworking. Mikaila graduated from Kamehameha Kapalama High School in 2018. After graduation, Mikaila will return to Hawaii to serve her native community.

Marcus Heiman-Martin R. Rosenthal '56 Achievement Award in the Creative Arts - Studio Art
Phoebe Quin Kong - Phoebe was raised in Los Angeles, CA, where her parents cultivated her appreciation of art from a young age. Phoebe graduated from Marlborough High School looking to pursue the humanities in college before discovering her passion for fine art during her freshman year at Dartmouth. Phoebe's area of focus in Studio Art has been large-scale paintings and drawings, and she works towards integrating her abstract language with her stylized human forms and faces. After graduation Phoebe will stay in Hanover as one of Dartmouth's Studio Interns, where she will build her portfolio to apply to graduate schools.