Student artists named for annual awards

• June 21, 2011 3:00pm

Art students Elizabeth Zunino and Donghoon Han have been awarded the Leslie Toki and Howard Slatoff awards, respectively, by the Art Department.

The Leslie Toki Award was established in 1988, to provide an award to a student in the Ceramic Arts.  The fund was started with a donation from the Toki family to honor their mother, Leslie Toki.  John Toki continues to contribute to the fund annually. In 2010, the guidelines for the award were changed to include any media that students submitted to the Annual Juried Exhibition. Zunino’s submission was a needlework Koi pond.

The Howard Slatoff Award was established in 2003 through an endowment established by Art Professor Howard Slatoff. The annual proceeds from the endowment provide an award to a student who enters work in the Annual Juried Exhibition.  The guidelines state that the award is given to a Traditional Art student one year and to an Electronic Art student in the alternate year.  When there are enough proceeds, an award is given in each of the areas in the same year.

Han creates traditional art.