Paula Wilson: Excerpt from "Salty and Fresh," 2014.
2021 Recipients Announced
Cartoonist Lauren Weinstein (BFA97) and multimedia artist Paula Wilson (BFA98) have both won the 2021 Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Awards, presented by the Sam Fox School. Each receives $25,000 to advance their studio practice. Weinstein will use the award to support the creation of a new graphic novel, The Gift of Time, inspired by Town Clock, CDC, a New Jersey nonprofit that provides survivors of domestic abuse with affordable, permanent housing plus supportive services. Wilson will use the award to support a new body of work centering on the sacred datura, a flowering plant with medicinal and hallucinogenic effects, which thrives in the south-central region of New Mexico, where she lives.
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Lauren Weinstein: Excerpt from "The Town Clock," 2020.
About the Award
The Stone & DeGuire Contemporary Art Award was created by Nancy Stone DeGuire (1947-2013) and Lawrence R. DeGuire Jr. (1947-2006) via a bequest to the School; it was their desire to help fellow alumni artists advance their studio practice. Stone & DeGuire met as undergraduate art students at Washington University, were married, and worked closely together in a studio practice.
Awards are given every one to two years. A maximum of two awards will be given for each round, each award totaling $25,000. Funds will be used by the recipient within a year of receipt of the award to advance his or her art practice. Funds may be used for supplies and equipment, travel, studio rent, production of work, exhibition expenses, documentation of work, and other expenses directly related to the recipient's practice.
2020 Recipients
Lyndon Barrois Jr. (MFA13) and Wyndi DeSouza (MFA16); read the full news release>>
2019 Recipients
Elana Mann (BFA03) and Erik L. Peterson (BFA04); read the full news release>>
2018 Recipients
Ebony G. Patterson (MFA06) and Jill Downen (MFA01); read the full news release>>
2017 Recipients
Ericka Beckman (BFA74) and Ian Weaver (MFA08); read the full news release>>
About Stone & DeGuire
Nancy Stone DeGuire (1947-2013) and Lawrence R. DeGuire Jr. (1947-2006) met as undergraduate art students at Washington University; they were married in Graham Chapel in 1969 and earned their Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in 1970. The husband-and-wife duo began their artistic collaboration in 1972, working together as Stone & DeGuire to produce a single object. This partnership evolved from parallel, individual investigations of alternatives to the picture plane—a synthesized interest in spatial concerns, informally united with flexible materials. The force of their work coalesces around ties that bind rather than separate—an artistic collaborative whose shared studio practice was merely one facet of an inseparable personal union.
Left: Stone & DeGuire, Blackmail #61, mixed media, 32.75 x 25.5 x 1.25", 1998. Right: Stone & DeGuire, Blackmail #33, mixed media, 32.75 x 25.5 x 1.25", 1998.
Questions?
Contact Jessica Erickson at ericksonj@wustl.edu.