3x3 Student Show Winners Announced

Out of nearly 1,000 entries the judge's narrowed the entries down to just 45 winners. There were another 40 that just fell shy of being in the show. Judging was tough, pieces were graded on a 4-point system, 4 being best. Just to get into the show the majority of judges had to give the entry a 3 or 4; to be a medal winner a majority of the judges had to give the piece a 4 and to be awarded Best of Show more than a majority had to give the piece no less than 4 points. A complete list of the winners is online but here are this year's medalists:

Best of Show
David Jien, Art Center College of Design

Gold
Sonja Danowski, Georg-Simon-Ohm University, Nuremberg
Sophia Martineck, The Berlin University of the Arts

Silver
Mark Smith, University of Plymouth
David Jien, Art Center College of Design
Jonathan Bartlett, School of Visual Arts

Bronze
Tobias Tigner, State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart
Adam Hancher, University of the West of England
Yeji Yun, Kingston University

Distinguished Merit
Jungyeon Roh, School of Visual Arts
Kaity Hill, Ontario College of Art & Design

Congratulations to all the winners for making this a truly international show.

This year's judges included illustrators/educators Alexandra Kardinar, Germany; Gary Embury, United Kingdom; Clemente Botelho, Canada and Martha Rich, John Hendrix, Nora Krug of the US. Rounding out the judges is artist rep Pat Lindgren, Lindgren & Smith.