Lila Willis has been selected as a featured artist in the Miami University Art Museum 2020 Student Response Exhibition! Willis is a junior ceramics major at Miami from Cincinnati. She is involved in the Inklings Art and Letters Magazine organizations on campus. Willis just transferred to Miami in the fall because she “was very interested and impressed by its art department,” said Willis.
In her featured artwork, Parhelion, she was inspired by the textures of the materials she used and the warmth and light that can be found in the natural world. In her free time, Willis likes to make art and spend time with her family. She dreams of being a curator or art journalist in her career.
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 Lila Willis’s artwork along with the rest of the student response exhibition, Circling ‘Round, at the Miami University Art Museum!
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