March 5, 1994

Helping Laura get ready for her Rickert Ziebold show. Laura's big figure project was part of her entry into the annual Rickert Ziebold art competition. It's the result of a large donation to the School of Art, a trust that provides a very large prize (usually about $20,000) to the winner(s) of the annual art show, open to senior majors in the department. From the eligible students, finalists are selected (a dozen or two), who set up a big show in the main art building, which was then sealed up for the rest of the weekend. On Monday, the faculty would go through and vote on the student work. Scores were tallied, and a group that separated itself out as the top (in my years there usually between 4 and 6 students) shared the prize money. Laura was one of the finalists in 1994, and I helped her move some of the heavy stuff, like the bronze torso above, from her studio in the Glove Factory, to her assigned space in the painting studio in Allyn.