Cleveland Institute of Art’s President’s Traveling Scholarship winners celebrate after receiving their awards at the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) exhibition celebration at MOCA Cleveland. Palisadian Emily Huntziker is third from the left.
Photo courtesy of Ann McGuire
Pacific Palisades native and 2010 graduate of Palisades High Emily Huntziker has been awarded a post-graduation travel award from the Cleveland Institute of Art to fund a research trip to England, where she will relish that nation’s decorative art.
Cleveland Institute of Art is the only college that offers scholarships to graduating seniors — on their way out the door — to continue to pursue their artistic interests.
The unique cash awards promote new graduates’ artistic growth by allowing them to visit places of essential influence on their work, whether abroad or at home.
Cleveland Institute of Art’s President’s Traveling Scholarship winners celebrate after receiving their awards at the Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) exhibition celebration at MOCA Cleveland. Palisadian Emily Huntziker is third from the left. Photo courtesy of Ann McGuire
The natural world strongly influences the jewelry that Huntziker makes, as does her interest in luxurious ritual objects, such as cups and crowns used in celebrations.
She unites the two by creating beautiful objects that speak to origins, both natural and cultural. Fittingly, she plans to visit England, specifically its fabulous Crown Jewels collection in the Tower of London and the tremendous archives of decorative craft pieces in the Victoria and Albert Museum, she said.
It was the Jewelry + Metals Department that attracted Huntziker to CIA from her home city outside of the Palisades, she noted.
Huntziker was one of six graduating seniors selected by a faculty committee through a competitive process based on applicants’ achievements in artwork and on the quality of the detailed travel-project proposal that each must submit.
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