The libraries at Sinclair’s Englewood and Huber Heights Learning Center will undergo a change in décor due to this year’s Student Photography Contest.
The theme of the photography contest is seeing 125 years of Sinclair through the eyes of a Sinclair student as part of the 125th anniversary celebration.
Photographs can be of the Dayton campus or any of the learning centers. Black and white or color photos are acceptable. All photos should be representative of what Sinclair signifies to the student, said Charity Lomax, library specialist for the Huber Heights Learning Center.
“We are trying to celebrate our 125th anniversary and we want to know what that looks like to a student,” Lomax said via telephone. “We are trying to get students to reach in a little deeper and try and find meaning and tradition.”
Students who are interested in the contest should send their photographs electronically to christopher.reev1545@sinclair.edu. The deadline for photography submission is Feb. 15.
“Chris Reeves and I wanted the library to be somewhere fun that students want to come into,” Lomax said. “We didn’t want it to be a place with discipline and dread, a place that nobody wants to go.”
Winners will have their photography displayed on the walls of the Learning Center libraries as a way to revamp the look and atmosphere of the library. Five photographs will be displayed at Englewood and five at the Huber Heights Learning Center.
Provided for the winners will be the cost of framing and matting the photographs as well as placards with their names on them.
Judges for the contest are Lomax, Reeves, Dawayne Kirkman, who is the manager of the Englewood and Huber Heights Learning Centers and several student ambassadors.
“We wanted a nice well rounded vote. We didn’t just want to leave it up to us,” Lomax said.
Winners will be unveiled at the Learning Centers enrollment fair on Feb. 29. The first place winner will receive $100, second place $75, third place $50 and fourth and fifth place winners will receive Sinclair merchandise.
“To scatter artwork that I think is art is probably not the same as our students’ interpretation of art,” Lomax said. “I just think that it is important to bind us together that way everybody has a say with what goes on in such a common space.”
For more information, contact Chris Reeves at the Englewood Learning Center at 512-5831 or Charity Lomax at the Huber Heights Learning Center at 512-5868.