BGSU undergrad wins NowOH Popular Choice Award

Now OH 12, an art exhibit open to artists from 12 counties in Northwest Ohio, opens with a gallery talk by juror Dan McInnis, at 7 p.m., Friday, June 28 in the university galleries in the Fine Arts building on the Bowling Green State University campus. The show continues through July 26.

Posted By: David Dupont July 30, 2017

Yuanyi Wang won the Popular Choice Award at the 10^th Annual Northwest Ohio Community Art Exhibit.

Wang, an undergraduate student in the Bowling Green State University’s School of Art, was honored for her self-portrait “Perfect or Not Perfect.”

The oil painting also received the Toledo Federation of Art Societies Award at the show, which was held in the Bryan Gallery in the BGSU School of Art.

The exhibit, which was open to artists from 12 counties in Northwest Ohio, closed July29. At that point the ballots for the Popular Choice Award were counted. The $50 prize is sponsored by the Bowling Green Arts Council.

Jacqueline Nathan, gallery director, said Wang’s margin of victory was definitive.

See http://bgindependentmedia.org/nowoh-exhibit-surveys-local-art-scene/ for related story.