Special to the Journal
Young Harris College is pleased to announce that junior art major
Allison Burnham was recently awarded
Second Place in the Student Juried Art Exhibition for her charcoal, acrylic and
stain piece “Disconnected.” Burnham is a graduate of Perry High School and the
daughter of Brian and Beckie Burnham of Perry, Ga.
All Young Harris College students were eligible to submit artwork created while
enrolled in classes at the College to be juried for awards. The student artist
awarded Best of Show received an iPad, while Second Place, Third Place, two
Honorable Mention winners and a “People’s Choice” winner received cash prizes.
The juror for the show was Daniel White, who currently serves as director of
the Mason Scharfenstein Museum of Art at Piedmont College in Demorest, Ga.
About Young Harris College
Young Harris College is a private, baccalaureate degree-granting college
located in the beautiful mountains of north Georgia. Founded in 1886 and
historically affiliated with The United Methodist Church, Young Harris College
educates, inspires and empowers students through the highest quality liberal
arts education. The College currently has more than 1,000 students across five
divisions—Education, Fine Arts, Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social
and Behavioral Sciences—and plans to increase enrollment to 1,200 over the next
few years. The historic campus in Young Harris, Ga., is currently undergoing
major campus improvements to accommodate the College’s growth, including recent
completion of a 200-bed, LEED Silver-certified residence hall, Georgia’s first
higher education facility north of Atlanta to achieve this certification, a
57,000-square-foot, LEED-certified recreation center, the second higher
educational recreation facility in Georgia to achieve this certification, and a
248-bed, apartment-style residential village. In 2011, the College was granted
candidacy for NCAA Division II athletics. YHC is among fewer than 300 colleges
and universities nationwide named to the 2012-2013 list of Colleges of
Distinction. For more information, visit www.yhc.edu <http://www.yhc.edu/>
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