2025 Young Sculptors Competition Award awardees announced
Published
2025 Young Sculptors Competition Award awardees announced
Published
Our 2025 Young Sculptors Competition Award awardees were announced on Friday, Sept. 26, 2025, in the Hiestand Galleries by the 2025 Juror Sohrab Mohebbi, Director of SculptureCenter in New York. The Yeck Purchase Award is a generous gift from William (Miami Class of 1936) and Dorothy Yeck of Dayton, Ohio.
The 2025 Miami University Young Sculptors Finalists for the $10,000 Yeck Purchase Award:
- Katelyn Reece Farstad, Brooklyn, New York
- Sam Fresquez, Chicago, Illinois
- Sophie Gibson, Windsor, Connecticut
- Liang Yu Huang, Chicago, Illinois
- Gary LaPointe, Jr, Chicago, Illinois
- Josh Rabineau, New Haven, Connecticut
- Baylee Schmitt, Newport, Kentucky
- Phoebe Scott, Spencer, Indiana.
2025 Awards
$10,000 Yeck Purchase Award
Baylee Schmitt
Master of Fine Arts, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio
Bachelor of Arts, University of Saint Francis, Fort Wayne, Indiana
bayleeschmitt.com
Oak Table and Chairs, 2023, crochet, yarn and wire, dimension, variable.
This artwork is now a part of the Miami University Yeck Collection of Painting and Sculpture, College of Creative Arts.
