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 Savannah College of Art and Design students Tracy Hildebrand, Eric Vergne and Franyel Zelaya were named as semifinalists in the 2004 Berkeley Prize Competition. Only 25 semifinalists were chosen out of the 101 entries from architecture students from 28 countries including Australia, Austria, Canada, the Czech Republic, Greece, Egypt, Indonesia, Iran, Israel, Nepal, New Zealand, Nigeria, Singapore, Spain, Uruguay and the United States. In Stage Two of the competition, the semifinalists will write a 2,500-word essay in which they develop the idea proposed in State One. The topic of the competition is a city’s displaced population and those who assist them. The competition asks entrants to make recommendations for bettering the situations of those displaced people and write about their discoveries in the form of a persuasive article for an influential community newspaper. The top five to seven essays will be selected for final judging by the Berkeley Prize Jury. For more information about the prize, visit www.berkeleyprize.org/2004/intro.cfm. Broadcast design professor Roy LaGrone’s work is in an exhibition titled “Soultronic” at the Lemmerman Gallery at New Jersey City University in Jersey City, N.J. The exhibition will run through Feb. 27. The exhibition features several large-scale Iris prints, mixed media paintings and looped-video animations. The opening reception will be held Feb. 4, 4:30-7:30 p.m. at the Lemmerman Gallery. The reception is open to the public. LaGrone received a master of fine arts degree in computer art from SCAD and a bachelor of fine arts degree in graphic design from Atlanta College of Art. He has been a professor at SCAD since 1999. Second-year animation graduate student Matthew Munn won the 10 Second Club’s monthly Character Animation Competition for the month of November 2003. The online international competition judges 10-second, animated entries on the quality of character animation. Monthly winners are featured on the homepage of the club’s Web site, www.10secondclub.net, as well as in an archive of previous winners. |
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