Victoria Nunez, a graduating student at Holy Cross Catholic Secondary School in Peterborough, has been awarded a $1,000 bursary to pursue higher education in the visual arts, thanks to the annual Bierk Art Fund Bursary program.
Administered by the not-for-profit Electric City Culture Council (EC3), the Bierk Art Fun Bursary program is an endowment fund at the Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough that was established in 2006 through public donations to honour the lives and work of the late Peterborough arts champions Liz Bierk and her husband, artist David Bierk.
A $1,000 bursary is awarded to graduating Peterborough-area high school art students whose work demonstrates great promise in terms of artistic merit, and who have a serious commitment to pursuing further studies at the post-secondary level in the visual arts, media arts, architecture, or design.
A selection committee comprising respected local artists and teachers Cyd Hosker and Spencer Harrison selected Nunez as the bursary recipient. She will be pursuing a Bachelor of Interior Design at Humber College in the fall.
“Victoria Nunez impressed the selection committee with her clearly demonstrated interest in examining design and the interior spacial elements of architecture,” says EC3 executive director Su Ditta in a media release. “She will clearly benefit from all the possibilities the Humber program offers and we wish her every success.”
Nunez will be recognized with the official presentation of the bursary during the Mayor’s Luncheon for the Arts at the Canadian Canoe Museum on October 10.
