Art Alumna wins ICA Prize

We always love it when our people move on and do well - prizes, awards, appointments and new positions. Now Lamar Dodd School of Art alumna Katarina Burin (BFA '99) has hit two of these at once:

Katarina Burin, who took her conceptual creation of a fictitious Czechoslovakian architect from Berlin to Boston, has won the Institute of Contemporary Art’s 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize.

The $25,000 award comes as Burin, a native of Slovakia, has accepted an offer to become a member of the faculty as lecturer in Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University. She’s been a visiting lecturer at Harvard since 2009. The ICA award, she said, will allow her to expand on a project centered around Petra Andrejova-Molnár, a character she created who is rooted in the movements of early-20th-century modernist architecture.

Kudos and congratulations. We're so glad to share this story any time but it is especially relevant as we near commencement. That the BFA degree can uncover a treasure map of possibilities is a poorly kept secret, yet one that can still surprise. It's a cliche for a reason but... the sky is the limit, graduates.

Image: from there Boston Globe, credit, John Kennard