McKenzie first recipient of the Grahame Brooke Snider Endowed Photography Travel Award

Fall 2013 Grahame Brooke Snider Endowed Photography Travel Award is presented to Nikola McKenzie a senior in the Department of Art. This $500 award is a recurring honor in the Photography concnetration in the Department of Art on the Mississippi State Univeristy Campus. This award is given to only those who see and understand the value of travel for  creative visual research.

Nikola McKenzie will use the funds to attend the Socieity for Photographic Education  South Central Regional Conference titled Refining Humanity: Photography and Empathy at the College of the Mainland on October 17-20, 2013. The conference will explore the many and varied ways in which photographers and lens-based artists illuminate the human experience.

This Award is in the memory of Grahame Brooke Snider who was a student in the Photography Concentration in the Department of Art at Mississippi State University from 2006-2010. “Grahame lived and love photography. She absorbed all she could by attending photographic workshops and conferences.” States Professor Marita Gootee, who is the Photography Area Coordinator. “Her family created this award to honor Grahame’s passion for photographic knowledge and to provide MSU Photo students the opportunity to develop their passion for photography through travel.”

The Grahame Brooke Snider Endowed Photography Travel Award will be presented in the Fall and Spring to a Photography Concentration BFA student. This award is to encourage creative visual research in the photographic field through travel to conferences, libraries, collections, museums, workshops and more.

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

The application for the Spring is due Jan 27^th , 2014. For more information and application process please contact Professor Gootee in the Department of Art at mgootee@caad.msstate.edu.