Congratulations to Illustration junior Cherish Springer, the recipient of MassArt’s $5,000 Morton R. Godine Travel Award for her proposed project: Arctic Research in the Norwegian Archipelago!

Selected from proposals submitted by juniors and seniors across the college, the Godine Travel Award is granted to help defray the cost of traveling for the purpose of completing a well defined project having artistic merit.  

Of her proposal, Cherish says:

“My goal is to educate the public about the vulnerability and beauty of the Arctic landscape. To achieve this, I will travel to Svalbard and participate in a residency program. Through the program I can experience the landscape of the high Arctic, and learn about the history of the Norwegian archipelago, its people, and how it has been impacted by global warming. I will use what I have learned and work with schools near Boston to create community workshops that will combine climate change education and art. Then I will create paintings and a graphic novel that will collectively highlight the mystique of the Arctic and analyze the socio-political hierarchy within 19th century Arctic exploration missions.”