b'tryon prizes forwriting and art 2020 Each year, two juries award monetary prizes to current Smith students for outstanding writing and art related to the collection at SCMA. Writing may take any form, including a thesis, essay or poem; art submissions may be an installation, performance, video, sound, digital, internet or interactive art. Jurors seek a high level of artistic expression and presentation across all disciplines. In 2020, two students were awarded the Tryon Prize for Writing:Sandra Pomeleo-Fowler 22 wrote an essay titled The Kota Reliquary Figure: The Art Historical Context and the Problem of the Western Gaze on an African reliquary figure (above) for an art history course at Smith, ARH 110: Art and Its Histories (May 2019).Unrecorded Kota artist. Gabon. Late 19th-early 20th century. Gift of Cecilia (Cecilia Sahlman, class of 1950) and Irwin Smiley Catherine Sensenig 21 wrote ekphrastic poems related to a Flemish painting (left) for a class atHampshire College, Ekphrasis: The Poet AlwaysEnvies the Painter. Attributed to Adrien Ysenbrandt. Flemish, ca. 1500-before 1551.The Virgin and Child in Interior, 16th century. Gift of Mrs. CharlesLincoln Taylor (Margaret Rand Goldthwait, class of 1921)Wang Xi 22 is the winner of the 2020 Tryon Prizefor Art for a video titled The Pandemic The video documents my breathless emotional journey fromthe beginning of the pandemic til today. . . Antonia DaSilva 20 received an HonorableMention for her installation in progress,Ouch!connecting people to ideas44'