Senior receives funding for CASE pendant project
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Ryan Dostalek
Issue date: 3/16/06 Section: Campus News
A grant awarded to one UW-Eau Claire senior will benefit a project designed to build a greater awareness and understanding of alcohol-related traffic accidents.
Senior Jane-Marie Ovanin received $2,120 in the fall 2005 semester from the Center for Alcohol Studies and Education.
CASE was founded in May 2005 by a grant from the Department of Education, Director Nina Albanese-Kotar said.
Ovanin, a sculpture and metalsmithing major, said she plans to use the acquired funds to design and create a memorial pendant for individuals in the Eau Claire area who have lost a loved one to an alcohol-related traffic accident.
"I hope to have 15 to 20 individuals to collectively help create a unified design for the pendant through combining their various coping images and memories," she said.
Ovanin said the grant money will allow her to create about 30 pendants which will be awarded to all the individuals involved at a ceremonial brunch May 13 in Davies Center.
She said she would like to have the participants interviewed and the design finished by April 15 so she can finish the fabrication of the pendants for the ceremony.
Any student, faculty or community members in the Eau Claire area who has lost a family member due to an alcohol-related traffic accident are able to receive a pendant, Ovanin said.
According to a press release, the purpose of CASE is to promote alcohol awareness and education within the university and throughout the Eau Claire community.
In the fall 2005 semester eight student and faculty research projects and student creative projects, including Ovanin's, were funded through CASE.
"It is an exceptionally lovely project," Albanese-Kotar said of Ovanin's memorial pendant. "A work of art can be a lasting
contribution."
Ovanin said she hopes the project will inspire discussion between victims and the community about the effects and aftermath of alcohol-related traffic accidents.
"The project is a way for me to practice my
casting and jewelry making skills," she said, "as well as a great way for me to honor those families affected."
Senior Jane-Marie Ovanin received $2,120 in the fall 2005 semester from the Center for Alcohol Studies and Education.
CASE was founded in May 2005 by a grant from the Department of Education, Director Nina Albanese-Kotar said.
Ovanin, a sculpture and metalsmithing major, said she plans to use the acquired funds to design and create a memorial pendant for individuals in the Eau Claire area who have lost a loved one to an alcohol-related traffic accident.
"I hope to have 15 to 20 individuals to collectively help create a unified design for the pendant through combining their various coping images and memories," she said.
Ovanin said the grant money will allow her to create about 30 pendants which will be awarded to all the individuals involved at a ceremonial brunch May 13 in Davies Center.
She said she would like to have the participants interviewed and the design finished by April 15 so she can finish the fabrication of the pendants for the ceremony.
Any student, faculty or community members in the Eau Claire area who has lost a family member due to an alcohol-related traffic accident are able to receive a pendant, Ovanin said.
According to a press release, the purpose of CASE is to promote alcohol awareness and education within the university and throughout the Eau Claire community.
In the fall 2005 semester eight student and faculty research projects and student creative projects, including Ovanin's, were funded through CASE.
"It is an exceptionally lovely project," Albanese-Kotar said of Ovanin's memorial pendant. "A work of art can be a lasting
contribution."
Ovanin said she hopes the project will inspire discussion between victims and the community about the effects and aftermath of alcohol-related traffic accidents.
"The project is a way for me to practice my
casting and jewelry making skills," she said, "as well as a great way for me to honor those families affected."