{"id":1645,"date":"2025-04-15T21:03:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-15T21:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2025-04-22T00:01:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T00:01:45","slug":"2025-margaret-stonewall-wooldridge-hamblet-award-recipients-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/2025-margaret-stonewall-wooldridge-hamblet-award-recipients-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2025 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipients announced"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Department of Art at Vanderbilt University is proud to annouce the recipients of the 2025 the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award and Merit Award.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Every spring, the senior art majors finish their senior year experience installing their thesis exhibitions in Space 204, the contemporary art gallery located in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center, the home of the Vanderbilt University Department of Art.<\/p>\n

The students who mount their exhibitons are given the opportunity to compete for two grants made possible by the Margaret Stonewall Woodridge Hamblet Endowment. This competition is a three part process \u2013 a written proposal, an exhibition of works, and interviews with a panel of jurors. This year’s Hamblet Competition jurors were Mona Bozorgi, Cheryl Goldsleger, and Amin Yeh.<\/p>\n

To learn more about the award follow this link: The Hamblet Award<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2025 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipient ($25,000)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

p\u1eb9l\u1eb9 o<\/em><\/strong>
\n<\/span>
\nIfedolapo Ayewale<\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"
Ifedolapo Ayewale – 2025 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipient<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Ifedolapo Ayewale (they\/them) is a Nashville-based multimedia installation artist whose work focuses on deconstructing and rewriting communication as a medium. Explored through their video work, photography, fashion, and performance, Ifedolapo pulls from both sociocultural and art historical roots, examining the intersection between their first-generation Nigerian heritage, American expectations, and queer identity.<\/p>\n

With emphasis on design as a language, Ifedolapo leverages their time as a brand developer against past gallery experience to create organic, intentional work that bends established social rules to birth new understandings.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"
Detail of “pele o” installation by Ifedolapo Ayewale, 2025 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award Recipient<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

 <\/p>\n

About the installation:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ayewale\u2019s installation p<\/em>\u1eb9<\/em>l<\/em>\u1eb9<\/em> o<\/em> is corridor of padded walls channeling the viewer to step into a path that widens and constricts the space around the body.\u00a0 Guiding individuals through a path illuminated by three monitors and surrounding them with sound. At its center, a white fabric skirt rests on a ground of soil.<\/p>\n

Their work explores identity as a first-generation Nigerian, American expectations, and queerness.<\/p>\n

The 2025 Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Merit Award Recipient ($10,000)<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Mothers and Daughters and Mothers Again<\/em><\/span><\/strong>
\n
\nPaulette DeJarnette<\/span><\/h3>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"
Paulette DeJarnette, 2025 Hamblet Merit Award Recipient<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Paulette Dejarnette is an art undergraduate student working primarily as a graphic designer at Vanderbilt University. Throughout her time at Vanderbilt, she has created work chiefly pertaining to the intersection of blackness and femininity. Through her work, she hopes that the viewer will reflect upon the context in which they view and interact with black women and young girls. Throughout her fourth year, she has worked as a studio assistant to the artist Magdalena Campos-Pons, where she has contributed to Procession of Angels for Radical Love <\/i>and Unity<\/i> (2024) and another work set to be exhibited in May of 2025. In the Buchanan <\/i>Fellowship: Experiencing Ehon Reading and Making Japanese Illustrated Books<\/i>, she created a Japanese children\u2019s book and fostered a love of text, image, and narrative storytelling, a love that shows up most in her video, print, and comic work. Serving as the president of Vanderbilt\u2019s Entertainment Underground, she also crafts social and themed experiences, having worked on the experience and environmental design of multiple escape rooms, both virtual and in real-life, and a murder mystery dinner. She uses these experiences as chances to apply artistic and performance skills to real-life environments.<\/p>\n

 <\/p>\n

\"\"
Install image of “Mothers and Daughters and Mothers Again” by Paulette DeJarnette, 2025 Hambelt Merit Award<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About the work:<\/strong><\/p>\n

DeJarnette\u2019s work, Mothers and Daughters and Mothers Again<\/em>, comments on the legacies intersecting with black motherhood and girlhood. DeJarnette explores the relationship between black mother and daughter and braided bonds that extend beyond a lifetime.<\/p>\n

Braids woven of multi-colored yarn, twine with red rope, braiding hair, and thread are embedded with jewelry, beads, and barrettes. Braids and the braiding process are a stand-in for generational continuity and generational intimacy. The braid and braiding ornaments are representative of the diversity of life stages, extending the sentiment of generational closeness to the entirety of an inheritor\u2019s life. The family photo wall display evokes the emphasis of familial relationships \u2013 where the individual mounds of braids exist within the borders of the frames with braids extending to others weaving the persistence of legacy.<\/p>\n

\n

The Senior Show 2025<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The doors between the gallery spaces of Space 204 opened on Friday, April 11, to showcase the hard work of Vanderbilt University\u2019s graduating studio art majors and their Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Senior Thesis exhibitions collectively showing under the title Where’d All The Time Go?!<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

The exhibiting student artists are Shannon Felder, Faeid Hassan, McKenzie King, Jaylen Lee, Jeremiah Crosswhite, Kelsey Miu, Paulette DeJarnette, Joshua Kim, Ifedolapo Ayewale, Camryn Ruiz-Edwards, Keezia Dotimas, Frank Zhou, Jocelyn Ni, Samara McLain, and Chagyue Niu.
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

The 2025 Senior Shows will be on display to the public from Friday, April 11 until Friday, May 9, in Space 204, the contemporary exhibition space in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts Center.<\/p>\n

Gallery hours are Mondays thru Fridays, 10am to 4pm.
\n<\/strong>These exhibitions are free and open to the public.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Department of Art at Vanderbilt University is proud to annouce the recipients of the 2025 the Margaret Stonewall Wooldridge Hamblet Award and Merit Award. Every spring, the senior art majors finish their senior year experience installing their thesis exhibitions in Space 204, the contemporary art gallery located in the E. Bronson Ingram Studio Arts…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":1634,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3,7,4,1],"tags":[8,25,21,20,5],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/vu-cas\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/59\/2025\/03\/20171813\/Hamblet2025-Image_300dpi-1-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/as.vanderbilt.edu\/art\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}