{"id":1167,"date":"2019-07-17T18:17:57","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:17:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wcsu.wpengine.com\/news-archives\/art-students-take-home-the-gold\/"},"modified":"2019-07-17T18:17:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T18:17:57","slug":"art-students-take-home-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/art-students-take-home-the-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"WCSU art students take home the gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"sharingTools\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/sharingtools.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"breadcrumb\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/breadcrumb.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;<br \/>\n    &#013;<\/p>\n<p><strong>DANBURY, CONN. <\/strong>\u2014 A group of students in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/art\/\">Department of  Art<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/\">Western Connecticut State University<\/a> earned the Gold Medal Award for their work from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadc.org\/\">Connecticut Art Directors Club (CADC)<\/a> for 2015.<br \/>&#013;<br \/>\nWCSU students Erin Manion, Jacqueline Chakar, Eric Hoffman and Christopher  Gabriel were the collaborators of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.cadc.org\/awards\/2015\/gold.html#piece-33\">Prisma<\/a>,\u201d the  20-page booklet that represented the annual senior students project. The theme,  concept and design were created by the students and all of the images were  produced by graphic design, photography and illustration students.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>      This award was part of the CADC\u2019s 40th Year Celebration &amp; Annual Awards  event. The CADC is a professional organization with members from corporations,  advertising agencies, art and design firms, photography studios, individual  creative professionals and educators.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re very proud of our art students for their talents and involvement,\u201d  said Jack Tom, WCSU assistant professor of illustration who worked with the  students together with Art Department faculty David Skora and Catherine  Vanaria.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<p>Western Connecticut  State University offers outstanding faculty in a range of quality academic  programs. Our diverse university community provides students an enriching and  supportive environment that takes advantage of the unique cultural offerings of  Western Connecticut and New York. Our vision: To be an affordable public  university with the characteristics of New England\u2019s best small private  universities.<\/p>\n<p>&#013;<\/p>\n<div id=\"facebookShare\"><!-- #include virtual=\"\/include\/facebookshare.inc\" --><\/div>\n<p>&#013;\n        <\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; &#013; &#013; &#013; DANBURY, CONN. \u2014 A group of students in the Department of Art at Western Connecticut State University earned the Gold Medal Award for their work from the Connecticut Art Directors Club (CADC) for 2015.&#013; WCSU students &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1167","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1167\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wcsu.edu\/news-archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}