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Miami art student receives Yeck Fellowship

04/03/2009

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“Rat Race” by Nick Scrimenti.

Nick Scrimenti, a senior art major from Dayton, has been selected for a Yeck College Artist Fellowship, one of three programs at the Dayton Art Institute made possible by the Dorothy and Bill Yeck Educational Endowment.

Also selected were Cynthia Harrold, Central State University; Emily Davidson, Art Academy of Cincinnati; and Katy Nelson, Wright State University.

The students created a body of work specifically for display at the institute’s Regional Artists Gallery, April 18-Aug. 23. Fellowship recipients also worked as mentors to select high school art students and received $1,000 for materials to create artwork for the exhibit.

Scrimenti is a printmaker whose work includes figurative, illustrative and abstract imagery. “I combine these styles together to create images that force the viewer to actually stop, look around and consider for themselves what is happening,” said Scrimenti in an artist’s statement. “The subject matter is generally a biographical or personal statement of how I feel about certain people or issues.”

The late Bill (Miami ’36) and Dorothy Yeck also make possible Miami University’s Young Painters Competition each year.

The Dayton Art Institute galleries and museum store are open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday-Sunday with extended hours until 8 p.m. on Thursday. Admission is free. For more information, visit www.daytonartinstitute.org.

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“Swine” by Nick Scrimenti.