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Heuvelton resident nominated for art program

Posted 5/24/13

Brittany Hill of Heuvelton has been nominated for the Art and Design Division Program Award at Cazenovia College. The college’s art gallery hosted the annual Division of Art and Design Senior Award …

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Heuvelton resident nominated for art program

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Brittany Hill of Heuvelton has been nominated for the Art and Design Division Program Award at Cazenovia College.

The college’s art gallery hosted the annual Division of Art and Design Senior Award Candidates' Exhibition May 6 to May 18.

Hill is one of five students, selected by a jury of art and design faculty members, to be nominated for the award. Work by these students will be on display through commencement week, when the award winners will be announced.

Hill is a candidate for a bachelor of fine arts degree in studio art, specializing in photography, with minors in art history and business.

Hill says that growing up in a small town helped shape the person and photographer that she has become. Photography has been a part of Hill's life since high school, and during her senior year she began to really explore the medium.

Much of Hill's work focuses on portraits. In her senior project she continued her work with portraiture, exploring photographic documentation that captures an individual's emotional being.

"This body of work focuses on emotions, but more than that, it is about people. Emotions are fascinating because they are so raw and fundamental, and we can't control them – they give us insight into who we are,” Hill said.

“For this project, I chose to focus only on the 'negative' emotions and not include the 'positive' ones, for several reasons. The happier, positive emotions ask no questions of the viewer, so we tend to move on. But the melancholy, negative emotions do ask questions, and this keeps the viewer interested,” she said.

“As viewers and human beings, we sit and ponder and try to solve the puzzle that the photograph, and the emotion portrayed within it, is asking of us. And often, there is no concrete answer, because each one of us is unique and brings our own experience to the photograph, forever changing the 'answer' that we are looking for."

In addition to having been nominated for the award, Hill is a member of Sigma Alpha Pi, The National Society of Leadership and Success. She is also a student representative for the Middle States Commission on Reaccreditation and has been on the Dean's List three of her seven semesters.

She has worked as a Cazenovia College Art Gallery assistant to the director since 2009, assisting with all aspects of gallery operations.

She also served on the Cazenovia College Yearbook staff as a photographer of the Tony Exhibition at Stone Quarry Hill.

Hill also participated in Cazenovia's Alternative Breaks program in Valdosta, Ga.; served as secretary/treasurer of the English club; was a member of the drama club, the film society, the art club; and participated in fundraising efforts for UNICEF, and Up 'til Dawn, a fundraising project for St. Jude's Research Hospital.

For information visit www.Brittany-Lynn-Hill.com or contact Jen Pepper, director of the Cazenovia College Art Gallery, at jpepper@cazenovia.edu.