A Wallaceburg District Secondary School graduate is being honoured.
Second year Studio Arts student Kate Murphy has been named Western University’s Liu Shiming Scholar.
The award, which comes with a $3000 prize, is handed out annually to one full-time undergraduate student in the Department of Visual Arts, Faculty of Arts and Humanities based on academic achievement.
“There are so many talented students that I get to study and create with at Western” Murphy said. “I was absolutely surprised and honoured by this award. The scholarship funds will be a big help as I work to complete my degree.”
As a WDSS graduate, Murphy was also the 2021 recipient of the Glen and Orville Gold Fine Arts Award selected by the Lambton Kent District School Board. Upon entering Western Kate also received a Western Scholarship of Distinction and a Faculty of Arts and Humanities Entrance Scholarship of Excellence.
The Liu Shiming Art Foundation acts to support students of the arts at distinguished universities and hopes to expand the global arts discourse to embrace the diversity of art. When the foundation’s namesake, Liu Shiming, was selected to study at China’s Central Academy of the Arts in the late 1940s, it was with the help and support of his community. He was able to begin creating works of art that would become recognized throughout China and internationally.