Bainbridge Arts & Crafts’ 2016 visual arts scholarship winners are  Andalucia Curtis, Anneke Karreman and Eliza Townsend.

BAC awards three scholarships annually to graduating high school seniors who live or attend school on Bainbridge Island, and who plan to continue the study of art in college.

Recipients are chosen by a panel of impartial professional artists on the basis of the artistic merit of their work.

Curtis will receive the $2,000 Pauli Family Scholarship, which is awarded based on excellence in a variety of mediums. Jurors found her work to have “a strong impact and excellent focus.”

“This year in AP Studio Arts, I have focused on digital art, creating minimalistic designs in Adobe Photoshop,” Curtis said.

“Nevertheless, I still enjoy traditional art. I especially enjoy splatter painting with acrylics and building innovative 3D designs.”

Andalucia plans to attend the University of Washington and pursue a career in concept art.

Karreman will receive the $1,000 Pauli and George Dennis Scholarship, recognizing excellence in single or multiple mediums. Jurors found her work “provocative,” “fascinating” and “delightful.”

“I am not afraid to experiment with different materials to capture a specific emotion in each piece — ink, acrylic paint, color pencil, graphite, collage and porcelain,” Karreman said. “Different combinations of media seem infinite and that inspires me to explore the ways in which I learn which materials work well together. That way I can speak more directly to my audience specifically through material choice.”

Karreman will attend The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. From there she plans to pursue a career that incorporates design while including considerations of environmental sustainability and social justice.

Townsend will receive the $1,000 Rosalyn Gale Powell Scholarship, which recognizes excellence in one medium. Jurors loved her prints and photography, saying her composition, “is simple, clean and works beautifully.”

Initially in her artistic endeavors, Townsend pursued realism in her drawings and paintings, but then said, “As I grew older my appreciation for more stylized illustration and abstract work grew. I wanted to create something that was more raw and loose around the edges, something that I could express myself with. I loved the graphic quality that block printing and screen printing created and wanted to be able to explore that in my own work.”

Townsend will attend the University of Washington to study art and design.

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