University Honors is sponsoring a mural competition for interested students in the honors program to win cash prizes and have their art work reproduced on a concrete wall in Faner Hall, director Frederick Williams said.

Williams said first, second and third place prizes of $500, $300 and $100 will be awarded. The first place winner will have their work painted on an 8 feet by 8 feet space on the concrete wall in the lobby just north of the University Honors office.

This is a way of beautifying a little corner of the place, Williams said. We’re trying to turn these walls into something people might notice.

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Williams said all models are due November 10, and the winning entry must be completed by May 1, 1996. He said the entries will be judged by a panel of three.

The panel will consist of myself, art professor Edward Shay and Walter Hood, Williams said. Hood is a recently retired, prize-winning art professor from back east. He’s done murals all over the country.

The theme of the competition is honor, but Williams said the entries may be paintings, bas-relief sculpture or a mural. He said the honors program will cover the expenses for constructing the work.

The honors program will be picking up the tab for construction, Williams said. We will buy all the paints, the canvas and all the necessary materials. We will also publish the winning entries in Papyrus.

Williams said Papyrus is the University Honors journal, and contains literary and artistic works such as photography, painting and sculpture. This is an opportunity for students who have expressed interest and talent in visual arts, as evidenced byPapyrus, Williams said. The works published in Papyrus are the the best of what is submitted to us, but we receive many submissions every year.

Williams said these factors, coupled with a suggestion from his wife, led to the development of the idea.

My wife has a great interest in the program and the architecture surrounding it, Williams said. She suggested the idea of the competition.

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Williams said he then mentioned the idea in letters to John Jackson, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and James Tweedy, vice president for administration .

They both thought that it was a good idea, Williams said. We need to have something to focus on other than concrete in Faner.