Tryon Prize for Art

The Tryon Prize is a monetary prize awarded by a jury for outstanding work in installation, performance, video, sound, digital or interactive art. Any Smith student may compete for the prize.

The Tryon Prize is named for Dwight W. Tryon, painter, professor of art at Smith College from 1886 to 1923, and benefactor of the Smith College Museum of Art (SCMA). The Tryon Prize is endowed by members of SCMA’s Visiting Committee.

Submission Guidelines Submission Guidelines (PDF)

All submissions must include:
1. A cover page (Word doc) with your:
Name, Class Year
Email
Phone
Title of Work
2. A statement (Word doc) describing the concept and development of your work. (While it is not required that your work be influenced by art you have seen at the Smith College Museum of Art, please mention if it has.)
3. A description of the assignment, if the work was created for a course.
4. Up to 5 images in jpg format and/or up to 5 minutes of video of your work. If your files are too large to attach to an email, we recommend using www.smith.box.com  to share your files.

Send your submission to museduc@smith.edu
Deadline: Entries must be electronically sent no later than noon, Friday, May 2, 2014.
Contact: 413 585 2677 or museduc@smith.edu

Tryon Prize Award for Art

2013

No Awards

2012

Sarah Meikle, AC

  • Inside Out: the insecurity project (installation/website/audio)

Sofia Sanchez ‘12J

  • Open Those Eyes (performance)

Honorable Mention:

Esther Kwon ’12

  • Lost (digital portrait series)

Kendyll Gage-Ripa ’12

  • Face (social media/installation)

2011

Lucia Carroll ’11

  • Memorial  (video/installation)

Second Prize

Alix Korn ‘11

  • Body Memory  (video/performance)

2010

Ellen Feiss ‘10

  • 34 Slides of Unknowable Places: A Lesson from the Tappan Collection

Second Prize

Jennifer Sochin Connor AC

  • Trilogy (installation)

2009

No entries were selected for an award.

2008

Kika Gilbert ’08 (digital art)
 

2007

Lila Dodge ‘09 & Rose Baldwin ‘09

  • Tendency, Intention, Tendency, Intention (video/performance)

Kelsey Siepser ‘07

  • Eleusis (video)

Abby Walton ’07

  • Vertigo (installation)

Tryon Prize for Art established in 2007.