Art Students Win Scholarships and Awards at 2024 Student Art Exhibition

Each year, Concordia University, Nebraska art students submit work for the university’s annual Student Art Exhibition and are eligible to earn awards and scholarships based on their submitted work. This year’s scholarship and award recipients were announced at the Marxhausen Gallery of Art on April 21. The Student Art Exhibition is on display through May 1.  

Entrance in the Student Art Exhibition is required for all art majors. Senior and junior students must submit seven works, while freshmen and sophomores must submit five. Students with an art minor can submit up to five works. The total amount of money awarded among all scholarships and endowments this year totaled over $20,000.  

Leo Sieck Endowment 

The Leo Sieck Endowment was established to acknowledge an art student who demonstrates great potential as a scholar in art history, theory and research. To be considered for this award, the student must be a major in art and rank in the upper 10% of his or her class.  

Harley Storie, junior, Valley Park, Mo.  

Class of 1933 Endowment 

Preference will be given to students in Lutheran teaching via education and service to the church. To be considered for this award, the student must be an art education major and pursuing an LCMS degree certificate.  

Julia Baker, junior, Poy Sippi, Wis.  

Kayla Loesche, junior, St. Louis, Mo.  

Hannah Schaefer, junior, Albany, Ore.  

Harley Storie, junior, Valley Park, Mo. 

Wayne and Wanda Lillich Endowment – Lillich Graphic Design Award 

This award recognizes a student or students in graphic design that exemplifies professionalism, high attention to the craft of the discipline, and overall quality of their design work.  

Elizabeth Lee, sophomore, Fort Collins, Colo.  

Marxhausen Endowment 

Students do not apply for the Marxhausen Endowment Scholarships.  

Established by Reinhold Marxhausen and family, these scholarship awards recognize great artwork across a broad group of students and media. The award scholarship is open to all art majors and minors currently enrolled at Concordia University, Nebraska and who will be returning for classes in the following year. Selected by the faculty of the Department of Art during the department’s annual Student Art Exhibition, these honorable mentions are presented to students whose work in the exhibition merits outstanding attention for its creativity, high degree of quality and/or clarity of vision. These awards are granted primarily upon the student’s representation in the Student Art Exhibition.  

Julia Baker, junior, Poy Sippi, Wis.  

Lilley Barber, junior, Overland Park, Kan.  

Ava Bartels, sophomore, Lincoln, Neb.  

Lily Beck, freshman, Richland, Neb.  

Sophia Bossio, junior, Castle Rock, Colo.  

Grace Conant, senior, Council Bluffs, Iowa 

Lillian Dose, freshman, Hampton, Neb.  

Hannah Helmer, junior, Seward, Neb.  

Bailey Hidy, freshman, Trenton, Neb.  

Micah Knerl, freshman, Tekemah, Neb.  

Elizabeth Lee, sophomore, Fort Collins, Colo.  

McKenzie Moore, junior, Sidney, Neb.  

Kaitlyn Porter, junior, Seward, Neb.  

Hannah Schaefer, junior, Albany, Ore.  

Harley Storie, junior, Valley Park, Mo.  

Heidi van der Heijden, junior, Seward, Neb.  

Courtney Wright, junior, Perryville, Mo.  

Interested in studying art at Concordia University, Nebraska? Learn more about majoring in studio art, art education, art therapy or graphic design on the art department webpage.