Jenna Suggs is one of two winners of this year's ArtsGala Art competition and was chosen by the ArtsGala host committee to be featured at this year's event. She is an Art BFA major, due to graduate this Fall with a split concentration in painting and printmaking. Jenna is currently researching internship opportunities to pursue after graduation, planning to continue her education and obtain a K-12 teaching certification or licensure to become an art teacher.

Her beautiful artwork, Bridge at Lewisburg is a woodcut print in black ink that began as just another beginner printmaking assignment but turned into so much more as she developed it. Jenna shares that the objective was to create an image from observation incorporating the use of black and white lines.

"I invite viewers to look at the work and explore the interplay of absence and presence. The contrasted bold black bridge is created only through the use of the negative space that cradles it. You must push yourself to look past the subject matter and engage in the surrounding elements. As the eye wanders around the print, I hope my piece offers a moment of pause and a chance to get lost in the complexity and simplicity of the lines that create an appreciation for the negative space which too often gets unseen or overlooked".

Size with frame: 21" w x 27" h x 1 1/4" deep

Framing donated by House of 10,000 Picture Frames.

Read more about Jenna and this year's ArtsGala Art Competition in our Newsroom article!