{"id":29180,"date":"2019-04-25T10:17:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T14:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/college.unc.edu\/?p=29180"},"modified":"2024-07-02T17:10:58","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T17:10:58","slug":"meredith-emery-beinecke-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=29180","title":{"rendered":"Meredith Emery is the University\u2019s seventh Beinecke Scholar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_29183\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-29183\" style=\"width: 350px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-29183\" src=\"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2019\/04\/meredith-emery-edited\" alt=\"Meredith Emery\" width=\"350\" height=\"343\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-29183\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meredith Emery<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meredith Emery, a third-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pursuing a major in studio art and a minor in geography, was recently selected for the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship. Emery will graduate in December 2019 and hopes to earn an interdisciplinary MFA with a focus in sculpture to allow her to continue to represent local landscapes of personal significance and public resonance.<\/p>\n<p>The Beinecke Scholarship, a program of The Sperry Fund, recognized Emery\u2019s impressive achievements with a $34,000 award to attend graduate school in the arts, humanities or social sciences. She is one of 18 students nationwide to win the award, selected from a pool of 90 nominees. Emery is UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s seventh Beinecke Scholar.<\/p>\n<p>Emery, from Charlotte, has already had many solo and group exhibitions featuring her artwork, including \u201cForward Together, Not One Step Back\u201d at the Alumni Sculpture Garden outside Hanes Art Center, \u201cAmong Our Trees: Ring Studies\u201d at the North Carolina Botanical Garden and \u201cInto the Archives\u201d at the Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries at Purdue University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am incredibly thankful to\u00a0the\u00a0Beinecke selection committee for believing in me and the arts,\u201d Emery said. \u201cI look forward to working with the program in the upcoming years, and continuing to make art that unites\u00a0people in empathetic and truth-seeking conversations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Emery\u2019s artistic work and research calls the public to participate in close observation and conversation about the interconnectivity of built environments. In the last year, she completed the \u201cChapel Hill North Carolina Stream Project,\u201d a photo-ceramic series now exhibiting at the UNC Institute for the Environment. This project was executed in partnership with the Carbonshed Lab at Carolina, a research team investigating the cycling of nutrients in Chapel Hill watersheds.<\/p>\n<p>Outside the classroom, Emery serves as the undergraduate attorney general staff counsel for the Undergraduate Honor Court. She has also\u00a0facilitated art projects and art therapy for patients and their family members as a Carolina ArtHeels UNC Hospitals volunteer and\u00a0led the curation and exhibition of student artwork\u00a0at UNC-Chapel Hill\u2019s SAMple Gallery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeredith is a shining star who combines her academic research and talent for art and sculpting with her passion for communicating about challenging social issues of our times,\u201d said Interim Chancellor Kevin M. Guskiewicz. \u201cMeredith\u2019s accomplishments also demonstrate how a \u2018synergy unleashed\u2019 approach to higher education \u2013 bringing together the arts, humanities and sciences \u2013 can create powerful ways to communicate complicated subjects with diverse audiences. Thanks to this opportunity, I know we will hear more about Meredith in the years to come as she employs artistic expression to take on the grand challenges of our time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A member of Phi Beta Kappa and Honors Carolina, Emery has won multiple awards for her research and artwork, including the Alexander Julian Prize, given to a studio art major whose work exhibits a high standard of design, and the Jonathan E. Sharpe Scholarship, intended to allow a studio art major to undertake work that would not otherwise be financially possible. She plans to continue her research and creative work in graduate school, using a multimedia hybrid to reflect the growing influence of technology on social and environmental issues.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMeredith has shown an unusual ability to combine research on the environment with her talents in the fine arts,\u201d said Inger Brodey, director of Carolina\u2019s Office of Distinguished Scholarships. \u201cShe is called to create public art that elicits conversation among people who might otherwise feel polarized by political or environmental issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Beinecke Scholarship Program was established in 1971 by The Sperry and Hutchinson Company board of directors to honor Edwin, Frederick and Walter Beinecke. The program seeks to encourage and enable highly motivated students to pursue opportunities available to them and to be courageous in the selection of a graduate course of study in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Since 1975, the program has selected more than 646 college juniors from more than 110 different undergraduate institutions for support during graduate study at any accredited university.<\/p>\n<p><em>By <a href=\"https:\/\/uncnews.unc.edu\/2019\/04\/24\/unc-chapel-hill-student-meredith-emery-is-the-universitys-seventh-beinecke-scholar\/\">University Communications<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Meredith Emery, a studio art major and geography minor, was recently selected for the prestigious Beinecke Scholarship. The Beinecke Scholarship, a program of The Sperry Fund, recognized Emery\u2019s impressive achievements with a $34,000 award to attend graduate school in the arts, humanities or social 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