ArtPrize 2025: Ferris Community Participation Guide

Brooklyn Allen

Alum ('22, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"The Friendly Gossips"

Venue:
Second Vibess

Vote ID:
57192

a painting of the face of a woman from the side with long black hair

Grace Anderson

Alum ('25, BFA Fashion Studies)

Entry Title:
"Antares"

Venue:
Hermitage at Diamond

Vote ID:
69271

A photograph of a dress form draped with a rich red cape emboridered with starburst shapes

Olivia Bacon

Alum ('24, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Big Fish / Little Fish / Resilient Fish"

Venue:
HopCat

Vote ID:
21996

A painting of a fish with a backdrop of a city in the distance

Kelli Bechtel

Alum ('18, BFA Drawing)

Entry Title:
"Snow Bound"

Venue:
The Art of Life Studio NOW Gallery

Vote ID:
43118

A flat oil painting of a snow leopard bounding throught the snow

Justin Beitzel and Fernando Ramirez (Common Object Studio)

Alumni ('15, BFA Industrial Design)

Entry Title:
"Impermanence"

Venue:
BioPhilia Gallery

Vote ID:
54766

An oddly-shaped purple chair resembling an icre cream cone sits on top of a large stump near a fallen tree

Casey Beyer

Current student (BFA Studio Arts)

Entry Title:
"Static Signals (Yin Yang) [the Duality of Reality]"

Venue:
NIDO - The Urban Nest

Vote ID:
89217

A group of people standing inside a white room in which the walls are covered with abstract doodles in black ink

William Chatlosh

Alum ('24, BFA Fashion Studies)

Entry Title:
"Audrey Hepburn"

Venue:
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

Vote ID:
27423

A portrait of actress Kathrine Hepburn, a woman with long brunette hair done up in a bun wearing a pearl necklace, sunglasses and black dress

Brent Childers

Current student (BFA Studio Arts)

Entry Title:
"This is Livin'"

Venue:
The Atrium at Uccello's Downtown

Vote ID:
59424

A realistic oil painting of a young boy floating in a pool wearing a swimsuit and orange floaties around his arms

Seongbae Cho

Current student (Master of Fine Arts)

Entry Title:
"American Wilderness: Reconstructed Realities"

Venue:
The B.O.B.

Vote ID:
94224

A realistic oil painting of a beautiful mountain landscape with neon colored radio controlled cards in the foreground

Rosanne Coty

Alum ('90, BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Forest Visions"

Venue:
DeVos Place Convention Center

Vote ID:
94569

An oil painting of a multicolored tree

Bryley Deneen

Alum ('21, Master of Fine Arts)

Entry Title:
"Big Cat 01 & Small Cat 01"

Venue:
Happy Cat Café

Vote ID:
56938

A digital illustration of a cat face in neon pink, with concentric black and white cirlces in the background

Richard Dysard II

Alum (BAS Industrial Technology and Management)

Entry Title:
"Two Hundred Forty-Nine"

Venue:
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

Vote ID:
81548

A realistic drawing of a native american man wearing a traditional headdress with the American flag in the background

Trey Fett

Alum ('19, BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Hey, It's Good to See You"

Venue:
Brickyard Tavern

Vote ID:
89431

A cartoonish illustration of a ghost covered in honey and bees

Kathleen Ford

Alum ('90, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Literary Cats"

Venue:
Happy Cat Café

Vote ID:
86351

A realistic painting of a gray cat sitting on its haunches

Tatsuki Hakoyama

Assistant Professor (Studio Arts) / Alum ('14, Master of Fine Arts)

Entry Title:
"Once Upon a Time is Now"

Venue:
GRCC Collins Art Gallery

Vote ID:
14486

A realistic painting of a woman with red hair and a white dress sitting against a wall and holding an extinguished match

Sandra Hansen

Alum ('13, BFA Painting; '16, Master of Fine Arts)

Entry Title:
"Our Exquisite Pollution Series: Under the Sea Installation"

Venue:
BioPhilia Gallery

Vote ID:
82440

A sculpture of a sea turtle hanging from a ceiling, with colorful abstract paintings in the background

Bruce Holwerda

Alum ('75, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"What Goes Around"

Venue:
DeVos Place Convention Center

Vote ID:
34381

A whimscal sculpture of a carousel

Linda S Heusinkveld

Alum ('72, Interior Design)

Entry Title:
"Colour My World"

Venue:
Cornerstone Church - Heritage Hill Campus

Vote ID:
74498

An assortment of magazines laying on a table

Adam Jewell

Current student (BA Television and Digital Media Production)

Entry Title:
"Gold Gloom"

Venue:
DreamPirate Gallery

Vote ID:
12236

A blurry photograph of a golden sky at dusk, taken through thin leafless trees

Darlene Kaczmarczyk

Faculty Emeritus

Entry Title:
"The Art of Democracy" (group entry)

Venue:
Fountain Street Church

Vote ID:
40696

Izzy Karrick

Current student (BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Fabric to Dust"

Venue:
Zabház

Vote ID:
45732

A series of images and indecipherable text printed on white linen fabric

Justin Kellner

Alum ('10, Master of Fine Arts)

Entry Title:
"Interruptions"

Venue:
Speciation Cellars

Vote ID:
67426

A large abstract painting dominated by light blues, grays, and browns

Sarah Kuhnert

current student (BFA Fashion Studies)

Entry Title:
"Fibers of Being"

Venue:
BioPhilia Gallery

Vote ID:
96206

colorful clothes draped from the ceiling

Justin La Doux

Alum ('05, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Bug Hotel"

Venue:
Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum

Vote ID:
72581

A large sculpture of a beehive complete with metal scupltures of bees

Wade Leppien

Alum ('17, BFA Digital Media)

Entry Title:
"Home for a Fairy Named Kerry" (group entry)

Venue:
Oh, Hello Paper & Gifts

Vote ID:
90614

Abby Licht

Current student (Master of Fine Arts)

Entry Title:
"6/7/23 V. 2"

Venue:
The Aroma Labs

Vote ID:
85363

A painting of a red tubular slide that empties out into a pool of blue liquid, with pink grass all around

Phillip Martin Luckhurst

Current student (BFA Studio Arts)

Entry Title:
"1941 Conscription"

Venue:
Art For Honor at Veterans Memorial Park

Vote ID:
38109

A black and white charcoal drawing of faceless male figures standing at attention

Hannah Mabie

Alum ('22, Master of Fine Arts; '22, MA in Visual and Critical Studies) / Adjunct instructor

Entry Title:
"Red Shift"

Venue:
JW Marriott Grand Rapids

Vote ID:
60825

An abstract painting featuring veiny red and blue patterns resembling the texture of stone

Shannon Mack

Alum ('13, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Life Itself"

Venue:
Hermitage at Diamond

Vote ID:
75311

A collage of blue-tinted abstract photographs made to look like a quilt

Laura Maloney

Alum ('91, BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Fancy Felines, Some Tuxedos Required"

Venue:
Happy Cat Café

Vote ID:
78983

A realistic colored pencil drawing of a gray cat

Lily Mattson

Current student (BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Helping Hand"

Venue:
The Salvation Army in Kent County

Vote ID:
71952

silhouettes of children with a large hand dropping items

Tara McCrackin

President Emeritus / Alum ('97, BFA Interior Design)

Entry Title:
"Conversations in Color: Voices of Leadership" (group entry)

Venue:
DeVos Place Convention Center

Vote ID:
82706

Lori McElrath Eslick

Alum ('81, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Sand Dunes Plein Air"

Venue:
DeVos Place Convention Center

Vote ID:
79163

An oil painting of a tranquil rural field covered in hues of red and brown and just thawing out f rom a winter snow. A male figure in blue overalls and a brown dog are pictured in the foreground

Forrest Miller

Alum ('13, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"What a Wonderful World"

Venue:
The B.O.B.

Vote ID:
41676

An oil painting of a treeline set ablze with the orange, yellow, and red of turning fall leaves set in front of a placid pond

Wanda Moreno-Aguilar

Alum ('23, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"A Journey Through Yesterday: Embracing the Present"

Venue:
Spectrum Theater (lobby)

Vote ID:
39175

A painting of a facelss mother in a long green dress and brown dress hat cradles a baby while two older faceless children, both with brown hair wearing tan pants and long sleeve green shirts, play in the foreground next to an easel

Sarah Ouellette

Alum ('12, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"American Dream"

Venue:
The B.O.B.

Vote ID:
24980

Kendra Preston

Alum ('20, BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Fading Harvest"

Venue:
The Art of Life Studio NOW Gallery

Vote ID:
89684

Alaina Riedel

Alum ('20, BFA Painting)

Entry Title:
"Anchored in Comfort"

Venue:
Roeda Studio

Vote ID:
96916

A paintint of a black and white dog lounging on a couch up;holstered with a fabric featuring a pattern of sailboats

Noel Skiba

Alum ('85, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Bridge View Sparking Moments"

Venue:
Bridge St Electric

Vote ID:
14085

A childlike painting of colorful fireworks exploding in the sky over a city skyline and a bridge spanning a river

Emmylou Smith

Alum (BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Ancient Myths and Legends"

Venue:
The B.O.B.

Vote ID:
14043

A realsitic painting of a male angel figure wearing only a white loin cloth and laying back on a rock outcroppoing near the water

Hanna Stalmack

Current student (BFA Studio Arts)

Entry Title:
"Cindy's Souvenir"

Venue:
Second Vibes

Vote ID:
62723

A series of three collage-like paintings blending old black and white photographs with colorful flowers and common items like cigarettes, money, and keys

Sandra Stassen

Alum ('76, BS Medical Laboratory Science)

Entry Title:
"Geriatric Starlet"

Venue:
San Chez Bistro

Vote ID:
74147

A paper mache cartoonish face of an older woman with bright red lipstick and blakc horn rimmed glasses

Diane Sumner

Alum ('88, BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Guardian of the Pearl"

Venue:
The B.O.B.

Vote ID:
69963

An artwork depicting an underwater scene tinged in green, with kelp and colorful fish swimming about as a female figure's head, adorned with colorful jewels, looks on from the side

Rachael Tamez

Alum ('24, BFA Interior Design)

Entry Title:
"Beneath the Surface"

Venue:
Greyson Clothiers

Vote ID:
91720

An abstract painting defined by tones of gray and black

Nancy Tobin

Alum ('81, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"100 Steps Forward"

Venue:
ArtRat Gallery

Vote ID:
84861

Am abstract painting featuring pink and green circles laid over a striped-like pattern of pink and gray tones

Shelley Lynn van Gilse

Alum ('83, AFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"WALK OFF"

Venue:
Amyway Grand Plaza Hotel

Vote ID:
29561

A hyperrealistic painting of a tiger's head

Margaret Vega

Professor Emeritus

Entry Title:
"Stellar Remnants"

Venue:
DeVos Place Convention Center

Vote ID:
99685

An abstract oil painting blending rough textures and shades of green, blue, brown and gray, with a small stone angel figure depicted in the corner of the canvas

Joe Velick

Alum ('25, BFA Product Design)

Entry Title:
"Fabric Study in Pewter"

Venue:
Metal Art Studio

Vote ID:
56184

A photograph of a lower arm and hand wearing an elaborate, abstractly shaped silver bracelet. The hand casts a shadow on the white background.

Oliver Welch

Current student (BFA Graphic Design)

Entry Title:
"Beauty of that November Day"

Venue:
United Bank of Michigan

Vote ID:
16806

A realistic digital illustration of a pedestrian bridge spanning a river with a multicolored building and surrouding city skyline in the background

Lexi Wierenga

Current student (BFA Fashion Studies)

Entry Title:
"The Uncovering (After Rome)"

Venue:
The B.O.B.

Vote ID:
55105

Kevin Wolfrom

Alum ('19, BFA Illustration)

Entry Title:
"Unfinished"

Venue:
Rewind

Vote ID:
54641

A spray-painted mural on a faux red brick wall depicting a smiley face, a female human face that morphs into a purple skull, elements of outer space, and the word astro rendered in purple and green graffitti style font

Danielle Wyckoff

Professor (Studio Arts)

Entry Title:
"Sway"

Venue:
Hermitage at Diamond

Vote ID:
96248

A collage oh photographs depicting a grassy field, the placid surface of a lake, flowers growing in tall grass, and a young girl and a tabby cat running through a field

Phyllis Zimmerman

Alum ('86, BFA Interior Design)

Entry Title:
"In the Pink"

Venue:
Courage & Soar

Vote ID:
46602

A realistic painting of an up close view of a pink flower