Circling Round Featured Artist: Moumita Banik Mou

Moumita Banik Mou has been selected as a featured artist in the Miami University Art Museum 2020 Student Response Exhibition! Mou is an architecture graduate student from Dhaka, Bangladesh. She is a member of the Bangladesh Student Association. She chose to attend Miami for graduate school because of the good academic programs and scholarship opportunities.

Her featured artwork, Circle of Memories, was inspired by her hometown and her memories there. She is very optimistic and likes to cook and paint in her free time, specifically watercolor paint. Her dream career would be to work in a vintage bookstore. 

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 Moumita Banik Mou’s artwork along with the rest of the student response exhibition, Circling ‘Round, at the Miami University Art Museum!

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