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Boit Award

Brandon Andrew, Bely's Spiral, 2007. Sculpture, video, sound, light. Courtesy of the artist.

Al Baio, Gingivitisaurus, 2007. Flashe and Sharpie on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

Lawrence Getubig, I want to be a cowboy action figure, 2007. Analog C-print. Courtesy of the artist.

Christina Tonges, They Say Everything You Do Is A Self-Portrait, 2007. Oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

Dana Pond Award

James Canales, Memories of Lincoln, 2008. Acrylic on sarape. Courtesy of the artist.

Nabila Zoraya Santa-Cristo, Dear Jake, I hate your guts, 2008. Acrylic and oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

Todd White, At The Center We Will Find You Falling Prey To Its Luster (Cave Face), 2008. Acrylic and oil on canvas. Courtesy of the artist.

Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography

Ana Licuanan, Untitled, 2008. Color photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

Lawrence Getubig, Master of the Universe, 2008. Analog C-prints. Courtesy of the artist.

Georgeanne Louise Krampien, Untitled, 2004. Color photograph. Courtesy of the artist.

Will and Elena Barnet Award

Lindsay Lamon, Antarctica I, 2008. Oil on board. Courtesy of the artist.

Simply the Best 2008



Georgeanne Louise Krampien, So The Tea Can Dance, 2008. Ceramic, vintage skirt, DMC floss. Courtesy of the artist. Recipient of the 2008 Stella and Sumner Cooper Award for work in ceramics, glass or metals.

Each year, Simply the Best celebrates the achievements of students who, during the previous academic year, received special recognition for their work in the form of various awards and prizes. This year, the exhibition in the Courtyard Gallery at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, features twelve works by ten artists in a variety of media, from sculpture and photography to painting, and represent the high quality of investigation and production taking place at the Museum School today.

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Boit Award: for work completed during the summer independent of classroom assignments.

Brandon Andrew, Bely's Spiral
Al Baio, Gingivitisaurus
Lawrence Getubig, I want to be a cowboy action figure
Christina Tonges, They Say Everything You Do Is A Self-Portrait

Juried by Michele M. Fiedler, director of Galeria 356, San Juan; Erik Pedersen, artist and architect; and concept-based artist Quintin Rivera Toro.

Dana Pond Award in Painting

James Canales, Memories of Lincoln
Nabila Zoraya Santa-Cristo, Dear Jake, I Hate Your Guts
Todd White, At The Center We Will Find You Falling Prey To Its Luster (Cave Face)

Juried by Italian artist Lara Favaretto and Museum School alumna and artist (MFA '96) Sheila Gallagher.

Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography

Ana Licuanan
Lawrence Getubig
Georgeanne Louise Krampien

Juried by Anne Havinga, Estrellita and Yousuf Karsh curator of photographs at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Chris Killip, photographer and professor of Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University; and Lisa Tung, director of exhibitions at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Will and Elena Barnet Award: for a work that embodies the formal elements of painting

Lindsay Lamon, Antarctica I

Stella and Sumner Cooper Award: for work in ceramics, glass or metals

Georgeanne Louise Krampien, So The Tea Can Dance

Both juried by Pieranna Cavalchini, curator of Contemporary Art at the Isabella Stuart Gardner Museum, and Museum School alumna (BFA '77), and artist and educator Audrey Goldstein.