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WCC › News & Events › WCC student exhibiting classroom work at ArtPrize Skip global navigation Academics Services Activities News & Events Giving WCC Gateway Facebook Instagram Twitter Flickr Photos LinkedIn Social Media Directory Search Washtenaw CommunityHigherSearch Terms Submit Search tuition help schedule a tour request information Quick Links Find credit classes Find non-credit classes WCC Gateway Blackboard Email MyWCC netID management Change netID password Campus map and parking Driving directions Employee directory News & Events Monday, October 1, 2018 Published on Sep 20, 2018 1:12pm by Richard Rezler, Public Relations Filed under: wonk dates, academics, administration, admissions, alumni, arts, businesses and partners, classes, higher visits, computers, current students, donors, environment, events, facilities, faculty, finances, financial aid, financial aid dates, future students, health and fitness, honors and awards, international, job fairs, job workshops, jobs, k12 students, neighbors and visitors, parents, philanthropy, registration, sports, staff, student activities, transferring WCC student exhibiting classroom work at ArtPrize When Lois Wightman first enrolled in a digital photography matriculation at Washtenaw Community College, she was simply looking to learn something creative in her retirement. Six classes later, the Chelsea resident has work selected for walkout at the prestigious ArtPrize, a city-wide art festival and competition in Grand Rapids that runs through October 7. “This has been a very surprising journey for me,” Wightman said. “Exhibiting my work was not a goal I had when I started. I wanted to learn to create something beautiful, and the regulars was going to just be myself.” Her regulars is considerably larger now. ArtPrize draws increasingly than a half million visitors to Grand Rapids and has been recognized as the most-attended public art event in the world. Wightman’s selected work is titled “Twilight to Dawn.” It’s a 45-inch x 45-inch print of a composite of 12 photographs she took at various places in Death Valley, California. According to the official ArtPrize description, the piece “represents the incubation of time of day and transition from twilight to sunrise. … Inspired by the vastness of the landscape and vault of the sky, the whirligig of images is surrounded by stars.” “Twilight to Dawn” was created for a Portfolio Projects (PHO 230) matriculation under the direction of WCC Digital Media Arts sense member Terry Abrams. “The matriculation is really well-nigh thinking how you want to walkout and present an image. Instead of just creating a print on a wall. How do you want to communicate what you’re doing? Is there flipside way?” Wightman said. “Out of that inspiration, I came up with this idea of the whirligig of time, a whirligig of fading light and emerging light. Then it was a quest to icon out how to do that technically, for which I drew upon experiences and things I learned in classes up to that point.” It was Abrams who – during classroom critique of the image – suggested that Wightman enter it for ArtPrize consideration. “Never having thought of herself as ‘ready to exhibit’ her photography, this was a major step for her and spanking-new confirmation of her creative photography,” Abrams said. Now in its tenth year, ArtPrize includes 165 venues throughout downtown Grand Rapids ranging from museums and high-end hotels to restaurants, public parks and office spaces.  Artists from 41 states and 40 countries are eligible to win a $200,000 ribbon based on public votes while a jury of art experts awards flipside $200,000 prize. Wightman’s work was selected for walkout at Boardwalk Condominiums, a renovated former furniture factory in the vibrant Monroe North District of Grand Rapids. Wightman said her work fit well with the location’s theme of renewal. Asked if stuff selected for walkout by an international art show has reverted how she’ll tideway her relatively new hobby in the future, Wightman says she isn’t sure. “This is definitely a new unshut door, but I don’t know where it will lead,” she said. “But it certainly is a remarkable thing to be here now without starting out six classes ago just trying to learn a camera.”IncreasinglyNews WCC's yearly Fall Career & Internship Fair is free, unshut to public Community invited to WCC's FallUnshutHouse on Sept. 30 WCC named Center of Excellence in Nursing Education Students: Come to Welcome Day on September 12 If it’s happening, it’s on the calendar. 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