STLCC Students Capture Top Honors in League for Innovation Student Art Competition

Two St. Louis Community College students earned top awards in the 2012-13 Student Art Competition sponsored by the League for Innovation in the Community College. 

Sarah-Marie Land, who attends STLCC’s Forest Park campus, earned the first-place overall award for her piece titled, “Elliot.”

Sarah Gill, who attends Meramec, won a Juror’s Choice Award for her piece titled, “Kingdom Falls.” 

The competition featured more than 95 entries submitted by students from the league’s 19 board colleges. The competition was hosted by Anne Arundel Community College. The jurors were Mina Cheon, a Korean-American new media artist, scholar and educator; Linda Bayley Hoover, who has taught studio art and art theory courses for colleges and universities in the Baltimore, Md., area; and Trace Miller, a painter and visiting assistant professor at Towson University.

The League for Innovation in the Community College, founded in 1968, is a nonprofit educational group of more than 800 institutions from 11 different countries and is the only major international organization specifically committed to improving community colleges through innovation, experimentation and institutional transformation. St. Louis Community College is a founding member of the league and is one of 19 institutions whose CEOs comprise the League Board of Directors. The league sponsors annual student competitions for literary works, art and technology innovation.

Established in 1962, St. Louis Community College is the largest community college district in Missouri and one of the largest in the United States.  STLCC has four campuses – Florissant Valley, Forest Park, Meramec and Wildwood – and annually serves more than 81,000 students through credit courses, continuing education and workforce development programs.  For more information about STLCC, visit www.stlcc.edu. 

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