Ashlyn Lazor has been selected as a featured artist in the Miami University Art Museum 2020 Student Response Exhibition! Lazor is a junior anthropology and art history major from Columbus. She is also the fundraising chair for the Habitat for Humanity organization on campus. Lazor chose to come to Miami because she loved the campus and the great academic programs and it was close enough to home if she needed to go but far enough away that she doesn’t go back every weekend. In her free time, she likes to hang out with friends and bake. Last year, she had the opportunity to study abroad in Florence, Italy.
For her featured artwork, Spill the Tea, Lazor was inspired to challenge herself and try something new. She loves sculpture and ceramics, which is why she chose to make a teapot. In her dream career, she would love to be a curator in an art museum.
This year’s SRE topic was Circling ‘Round, where students thought about what a circle meant to them and how they might interpret it in art. Nearly 100 submissions were received. 32 works by 58 students were chosen to be featured in the Spring 2020 exhibition. As a juried exhibition, all works were selected through a formal process by a committee.
The exhibition will open Tuesday, January 28 and will remain through alumni weekend, closing on June 13. Voting will be open until April 11, 2020. There will be an artist celebration and award ceremony held on April 14, 2020, from 6 to 8 PM where three works will be awarded prizes totaling over $800. The awards are sponsored by the Art Museum Membership Association.
Come see Ashlyn Lazor’s artwork along with the rest of the student response exhibition, Circling ‘Round, at the Miami University Art Museum!
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