Burke Panels Win Prize

Jessica Katona, a senior in the Visual Communication Design Program, has created a large-scale project for the Burke Museum with support from Assistant Professor Kristine Matthews. The project, a series of recycled doors installed between the Odegaard Library and Kane Hall, was noted in UW Today. More recently, the installation received a CASE District VIII Communications Award, which will be handed out at their Vancouver, BC, conference in late February 2011. The Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) is an international association of educational institutions, and District VIII includes the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada. Multiple images of the installation, shot by another VCD student, are available on Flickr. The panels are part of a wider campaign, coordinated by Matthews, designed to promote the Burke Museum to UW students, including a new building banner, brochure, buttons, and t-shirts coming soon.