Roseville Area High School (Roseville, Minnesota) students took top honors in the Tom Frecska Student Printing Competition. Kennedy Hill, Drew Herther and Mitchell Morgan’s T-shirt creations were selected from among hundreds of national and international submissions at the 2013 SGIA Expo held in October. The Roseville students won three awards at the national competition.
“It’s pretty surreal,” said Morgan. “It’s the first time anyone from our school entered this competition and to earn awards the first year is pretty incredible.”
Herther (Class of 2013) and Morgan (Class of 2014) worked together to design a complex, multi-color graphic, which they screen printed themselves. Hill (Class of 2013) designed and printed her own T-shirt creation that showed two koi in an elaborate swirl of water.
The submissions were judged on the design itself, the number of colors used, the level of difficulty, the set-up of the screen print, and the quality of the print.
All three students credit their media arts instructor at Roseville Area High School, Brian Hoag, for giving them the opportunity to develop the skills that earned them the SGIA awards.