Moraine Valley Community College

League for Innovation International Student Art Awards

The League for Innovation in the Community College International Student Art Awards competition, now in its 38th year, provides an opportunity for students at League board colleges to compete with their peers across North America and showcases a selection of the best works being created by today’s community college students

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Eligibility

Initial competitions are managed by the Local Award Coordinators at each League board college/district. Students currently enrolled in for-credit art classes at League board colleges are eligible to enter the competition. Entries must be original works of art created during enrollment at a participating board college/district. (Dual enrollment high school, early college, and noncredit students are not eligible to participate.)

  • Artworks submitted are selected by students’ local colleges/districts.
  • All types of art media are eligible, including 3D work.
  • Selected artists may submit 1 digital image for 2D work and 2 digital images for 3D work.
  • Specifications on file sizes and types for all media uploads: Image: JPEG or JPG, under 5MB with a minimum of 1200 pixels on the longest side. Audio: AIFF, WAV, XMF, MP3, under 10MB with a minimum bit rate of 96. Video: 3PG, WMV, AVI, MOV, ASF, MPG, MP4, M2T, MKV, M2TS, under 100MB with a minimum resolution of 640 x 480; minimum 12 fps.
  • Submissions to the international competition are drawn from each student’s portfolio of digital images housed on the CaFÉ online submission manager. Specific file names will not be visible to the jurors or to the International Award Coordinator. Only students’ names and artwork titles will appear in CaFÉ.

  • Check with your instructor for your local college’s entry date and selection process.
  • Complete the entry form in its entirety and sign the form.
  • The entry form requires a short (50 words or less) written statement regarding the submitted artwork. The statement may address the submitted work, or it may be a more general artist statement. All statements will be published in the Student Art Awards catalog. Proofread your statement prior to submission to your Local Award Coordinator.
  • Submit your completed and signed entry form with digital files to your college/district’s Local Award Coordinator. All images must be clear, properly exposed, and set at the required resolution.

Each participating League board college/district may submit up to five (5) works of art to the international competition. Each work of art must be created by a different student.

Awards

Best of Show

$800

Second Place

$350

Third Place

$200

Jurors Choice (3)

$100

Students whose work is submitted for the international competition will receive a Certificate of Merit and have their artwork published in the League’s Student Art Competition catalog, produced by the host college.

Local Award Coordinators at each board college/district will upload a scan or photograph of the complete and signed entry form for each local winner, as a PDF or Word doc, to the contest page on CaFÉ . Paper entry forms do not need to be mailed to the host college.

Questions?

For more information contact the International Award Coordinator:

Erik La Gattuta
Moraine Valley Community College
9000 W. College Parkway
Palos Hills, IL 60465
(708) 974-5481
lagattuta@morainevalley.edu

Moraine Valley Community College is the host of this year’s international competition. All international-level entries must be submitted by the Local Award Coordinators at participating board colleges/districts via the CaFÉ online submission manager by April 18, 2024.

Meet the Jurors

Kariann Fuqua

Kariann Fuqua (b. 1976, Oklahoma) is an abstract artist using drawing and painting to investigate the edges of environmental disaster. She received her BFA in painting from Kansas State University and an MFA in Painting from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her work has been widely exhibited in solo and group shows across the United States including Jenkins-Johnson Gallery (San Francisco, CA), Governors Island (New York, NY), Hyde Park Arts Center (Chicago, IL), Byron Cohen Gallery (Kansas City, MO), Manifest Gallery and Drawing Center(Cincinnati, OH), Athens Institute of Contemporary Art (Athens, GA) and was awarded a public commission at McCormick Place (Chicago, IL). She received a Joan Mitchell Foundation full fellowship to the Vermont Studio Center, an Individual Artist Fellowship from the Mississippi Arts Commission, and her work was published in New American Paintings and the Artist’s Magazine. She currently lives and works in Oxford, Mississippi where she is an Instructional Assistant Professor of Art and Director of Museum Studies at the University of Mississippi.

Larry Lee

Larry Lee is a multimedia artist, independent curator and writer who earned his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Illinois at Chicago and his Master of Fine Arts in Sculpture at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he also teaches Art History, Theory and Criticism as well as Contemporary Practices.
His practice includes sculpture, video, installation and painting that “remakes” his personal history in specific and the Asian American experience in general into stylized multimedia objects and images he facetiously terms “orientalia”. His work has been exhibited in Chicago at the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 400 and Evanston Arts Center as well as New York City, San Francisco, Philadelphia, Dallas, Houston, Cleveland, New Haven and Glasgow, Scotland. In addition to his curatorial project, Molar Productions, Lee collaborates with the painter Jason Dunda to perform as “The International Chefs of Mystery!” in a long-running video series available on Vimeo.
In March of 2022, Lee began the Spotlight Series at the Chinese American Museum of Chicago to showcase emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent.

Biddy Tran

Rach Gia, Viet Nam
Biddy Tran currently lives and works in Chicago. She received her M.F.A in art from CalArts and B.A in art, with an emphasis in New Genres from UCLA. For the past decade, her work has focused on questions of capitalist hegemony, postcoloniality, and hegemony within art, representation, and imaging. Tran is Assistant Professor of Art at Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois.

League for Innovation in the Community College Board Colleges

  • Anne Arundel Community College— Maryland
  • Austin Community College District—Austin, Texas
  • Cuyahoga Community College—Cleveland, Ohio
  • Dallas College—Dallas, Texas
  • Delta College—University Center, Michigan
  • Foothill-De Anza Community College District—Los Altos Hills, California
  • Humber College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning—Toronto, Ontario
  • Jackson College—Jackson, Michigan
  • Johnson County Community College—Overland Park, Kansas
  • Kirkwood Community College—Cedar Rapids, Iowa
  • Maricopa Community Colleges—Tempe, Arizona
  • Monroe Community College—Rochester, New York
  • Moraine Valley Community College—Palos Hills, Illinois
  • Santa Fe College—Gainesville, Florida
  • Seattle Colleges—Seattle, Washington
  • Sinclair Community College—Dayton, Ohio
  • Southern Alberta Institute of Technology—Calgary, Alberta