Inaugural Academic Affairs Art Prize Goes To “Mom’s Garden”
When Melanie Mohn ‘24 took a picture of her mother’s garden, she had no idea it would soon be part of a piece of artwork hanging in Hartwick’s Office of Academic Affairs.
Her composition, “Mom’s Garden,” a silkscreen print made in Professor Katherine Kreisher’s Intermediate Printmaking class, was the inaugural winner of the Academic Affairs Purchase Prize. The award, which comes with a $500 prize, will see Mohn’s piece hung in the Office of Academic Affairs for a year before joining the permanent alumni collection.
The photo from her mother’s garden at her family home in Endicott, NY, was the basis for the print.
“It was my first time learning how to silkscreen print! I exposed and developed my screen using a photo emulsion method, and I was interested to see how different my image would turn out from the original.”
Melanie Mohn ‘24
Psychology and Art double major
