Art Award is just the ticket

Yesterday afternoon about 3:30 (as I was writing a round-trip bus ticket for some nice people from Pinckneyville), "students and faculty in the School of Art and Design gathered . . . in the Glove Factory Surplus Gallery" (just across the tracks from where I was working) awaiting the announcement of the 2004 winners of the $20,000 Rickert-Ziebold Trust Award competition." And the winners were . . . I'll let Ashley Richardson tell you the names of the four winners of $5,000 each. (Enough for 39 round-trip tickets to Springfield, MO).

One of the winners may have painted the pictures behind Harris Deller-- director of the School of Art and Design--who posed for this shot on Sunday. Can't find a current R-Z website though. Something to harrass Harris about? If not him, who? The R-Z is such a cool and prestigious prize, it deserves a web presence that reflects it.