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2023 Piece of the Past Award Winners

Peice of the Past winners and alumni posing for a picture.
Piece of the Past Winners with Dr. Doni Wilson, Lisa Simon, and Mrs. and Dr. Sloan

Grand Prize Winners

Josiah Brent CarrÌę

Josiah Brent Carr – “Symon Patrick’s Paraphrase: A Forgotten Work of Majesty”

Catie Wuensche

Catie Wuensche – “The Old Testament, Translated into Cherokee”

Southern History/American Architecture and Decorative Arts

Cameron Morvant1st Place – Cameron Morvant

Abgail Jones2nd Place – Abgail Jones

Dunham Bible Museum

Alyssa Jemela1st Place – Alyssa Jemela – “A Commitment to Scripture: The Wycliffe English Bible”

Justina Smith2nd Place – Justina Smith – “Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth”

Art Museums

1st Place – Jair Gregorio

2nd Place – Michael Johnican

Freshman/HCU Academy

1st Place – Louis Palacios – The Medical Steel Syringe

2nd Place – Chandler Daniel –

Honorable Mention

  • William Aguirre
  • Tahia Blackmon
  • Lema Boucheni
  • April F. Conner
  • Charles fletcher
  • Melly Flores
  • Ethan Giwa-McNeil
  • Linnea Hagman
  • Tiffany Hinojosa
  • Abigail Jones
  • Collin Kulesha – Story of the Chinese Bible
  • Ryan Lee
  • Dario A. Pantoja
  • Caelan Quach
  • Drew Russell

2022 Piece of the Past Award Winners

Past Winners and alumni

Piece of the Past Winners with Dr. Napper, Sharon Saunders, Lisa Simon, Dr. Stewart Morris, Sue Sloan, and Dr. Robert Sloan

Southern History/American Architecture and Decorative Arts

 

Tyler Christian Brogan
Tyler Christian Brogan

1st Place Ìę ($500) – Tyler Christian Brogan, “David Stone Martin’sÌęAbove and Beyond the Call of Duty”

2nd PlaceÌę ($250) – Robert Walter, “A Lonely Cannonball and the Battle of Galveston”

Dunham Bible Museum

 

Catie Wuensche
Catie Wuensche

1st PlaceÌę ($500) – Catie Wuensche, “Hezekiah’s Tunnel: Examining the Siloam Inscription”

Cameron Morvant
Cameron Morvant

2nd Place ($250) – Cameron Morvant, “Medieval and Modern: Illuminating Creation in the St. John’s Bible”

 

 

 

Art Museums

Cole Funston
Cole Funston

1st PlaceÌę ($500) – Cole Funston, “Chagall’s Exodus: Biblical and Modern”

Brandon Yu
Brandon Yu

2nd PlaceÌę($250) – Brandon Yu, “Influencing the Last Judgment”

 

 

 

 

Freshman/HCU Academy

Lauryl Corrine Brogan
Lauryl Corrine Brogan

1st Place ($500) – Lauryl Corrine Brogan, “William Holman Hunt’sÌęLight of the World: Midnight Visitor”

2nd Place ($250)Ìę – Lily Clardy,

Lillian Clardy
Lillian Clardy

“When Wax Distracts From Your Impact: The Emma Richardson Cherry Portrait”

 

 

Grand Prize Winner

Aja Jones
Aja Jones

($1500) – Aja Jones, “‘A Credit to My Race’: The Hattie McDaniel Doll and the Boundaries of Black performance”

 

 

 

Honorable Mention ($50)

  • David Aguilera
  • Brayden G. Byrne
  • Ben Caton
  • Leah Cepeda
  • Tyler Ambrose Dizon
  • Dillon Etter
  • Madison Gamboa
  • Caleb A. Guajardo
  • Noah Hlavinka
  • Viviane Huara
  • Van Mawi Lang
  • Aeriel Kwan
  • Katherine Lazor
  • Veronica Long
  • David Mallory
  • Stephanie Martinez
  • Evelyn Montes
  • Jasmin Nelson
  • Mason Robertson
  • Robeao Ban Santos
  • Cullen J. Spadachene
  • Thi Vu
  • Trinity Walker
  • Julia Wise
  • Leo Yerena

UNIVERSITY MUSEUM ESSAY CONTEST ALL-TIME EARNINGS LIST TOP TEN

  1. Nicholas Van Cleve $3,000 (2012-2015)
  2. Jonathan Richie $2,500 (2015-2017)
  3. Andrew S. Jimenez $2,250 (2013-2014)
    • (tie) Corrie McCloy $2,250 (2016-2018)
  4. Katrina Bolman $1,550 (2018-2019)
  5. Victoria Thorpe $1,500(2019)
  6. Katie L. Kuhlman $1,100 (2011-2014)
  7. Emma Perry $1,000 (2019-2021)
    • (tie) Alexander B. Hale $1,000 (2016-2017)
  8. Andrew W. Adler $750 (2011-2012)
    • (tie) Kyra BrownÌę $750 (2014-2015)
  9. Cody Pepper $600 (2013)

2021 Piece of the Past Award Winners

Past Award Winners with alumni
Piece of the Past Winners with Dr. & Mrs, Sloan, Lisa Simon, and Dr. Stewart Morris

Southern History/American Architecture and Decorative Arts

 

Maria-Louise Cook
Maria-Louise Cook

1st Place Ìę ($500)Ìę Maria-Louise Cook, “Admiration Coffee: The Bitter Taste of Southern Hospitality”

2nd PlaceÌę ($250)Ìę Elizabeth Marie Campbell, “A Dress of Freedom: How the Flapper Used Fashion to Take What She Needed and Do What She Wanted”

 

Dunham Bible Museum

Eric Keller
Eric Keller
Emma Perry
Emma Perry

1st PlaceÌę ($500)Ìę Emma Perry, “Medieval Prayer: Studying a French Book of Hours”

2nd Place ($250) Eric James Keller, “The 1516 Genoa Psalter”

 

Art Museums

Justin Okeugo
Justin Okeugo
Loana Pichardo
Loana Pichardo

1st PlaceÌę ($500) Justin Okeugo, “Marc Chagall’s Exodus”

2nd PlaceÌę($250)Ìę Loana Pichardo, “Judgment Day: Frans Franken the Younger’s The Last Judgment”

 

 

Perseverance in Times of Great Trial

Jaylene Ortiz
Jaylene Ortiz

Rebecca Rizzotti

1st Place ($500)Ìę Rebecca S. Rizzotti, “The Eyes of the Blind Shall See: The Braille Bible”

2nd PlaceÌę ($250) Jaylene F. Ortiz, “Healthcare Amidst Adversity: The Doctor’s Bag”

 

Freshman/HCU Academy

Erika Gonzalez
Erika Gonzalez
Khanh Nguyen
Khanh Nguyen

1st Place ($500)Ìę Khanh Nguyen, “The Significance of Cromwell’s Soldiers Pocket Bible”

2nd Place ($250) Erika Garcia Gonzalez, “Freedom Within Quilts: The ‘Flying Geese’ Pattern Quilt, 1861”

Grand Prize Winner

Grand Prize Winner Hannah Gentry with Lisa Simon, Dr. & Mrs. Sloan, and Dr Stewart Morris
Grand Prize Winner Hannah Gentry with Lisa Simon, Dr. & Mrs. Sloan, and Dr Stewart Morris

($1500)Ìę Hannah Gentry, “The 1855 Daguerreotype: Capturing American History”

 

 

 

Honorable Mention

($50) Oghenemarho Avworo, Sarah Ayala. Angela Mai lei Baltimore, Rebecca Bargainer, Natalie Bennett, Xiaofan Cai, Josiah Carr, Camie Copeland, Julia Davis, Slacna De La Cruz, Eric A. Joseph, Christina Little, Isaiah Williams, Jordan Lockett, Mariana Lopez, Symone A. McClendon, Savion A. Moning, Alice Nong, Annette-Mirabel Offiah, Kayla Perrin, Anissa Sanchez, Liliana L. Segura, Daniel Sinecio, Sahil Swapnesh, Andrew Tran0

ÌęUNIVERSITY MUSEUM ESSAY CONTEST ÌęALL-TIME EARNINGS LIST TOP TEN
  1. Nicholas Van Cleve – $3,000 (2012-2015)
  2. Jonathan Richie – $2,500 (2015-2017)
  3. Andrew S. Jimenez – $2,250 (2013-2014)
    • (tie) Corrie McCloy – $2,250 (2016-2018)
  4. Katrina Bolman – $1,550 (2018-2019)
  5. Victoria Thorpe – $1,500(2019)
  6. Katie L. Kuhlman – $1,100 (2011-2014)
  7. ÌęEmma Perry – $,1000 (2019-2021)
    • (tie) Alexander B. Hale – $ 1,000 (2016-2017)
  8. Andrew W. Adler – $750 (2011-2012)
    • (tie) Kyra Brown – $750 (2014-2015)
  9. Cody Pepper $600 (2013)

2020 Winners – 10th Annual Piece of the Past essay Contest

Since this year’s Awards Event was virtual, due to COVID, there were no photos taken.

ÌęPlus the following Honorable Mention ($50)

Marissa Campisse, Daniel Dicken, Linh Dinh, Alan Omar Garay, Diana Gonzalez, Caroline Gillispie, Hailey Harvey, Daniel Idowu, Michael Knapton, Tieu Phuong Nguyen, Obianuju Favour Onyenso, Brandon Patterson, Renee Peters, Erik Pho, Esther Pouluse, Anissa Sanchez, Jayden Seals, Zeinah Wafi, Kayla Wilson, Alvina Zia

2019 Winners

Victoria Thorpe
2019 winners with mentors, Dr. Sloan. and sponsor Stewart Morris

Dr. Sloan. and sponsor Stewart Morris and past winners

Grand Prize Winner ($1500)

Victoria Thorpe, “Flooded But Flourishing: The 1869 Map of the City of Houston” (Decorative Arts)

Mrs. Sloan, Victoria Thorpe, Stewart Morris, and Dr. Sloan
Jennifer Ren and Brandon J. Patterson

Southern History/American Architecture and Decorative Arts

1st ($500) Jennifer Ren, “The Root of the Matter: Oral Care in Texas at the Turn of the 20th Century “ (Southern History)

2nd ($250) Brandon J. Patterson, “Clother in White: The Ku Klux Klan Hood (c. 1920)” (Southern History)
Emma Perry and Caleb K. Wong,

Dunham Bible Museum

1stÌę ($500) Emma Perry, “The Avery Bible: The Hearts of Children to Their Fathers”

2nd ($250)Ìę Caleb K. Wong, “Hope Found Through a Book: A Bible in Communist China”
Stacy Smith and Conley Harris

Art Museums

1st ($500) Stacy Smith, “Humanity Marching Forward: David Alfaro Siquetros’ Dancing Woman” (1969)

2nd ($250) Conley Harris, “Van Dyck’s Saint John the Baptist in the Wilderness” (Fine Arts Museum)
Asiyyah Abass

HCU Academy

1st ($500)Ìę Sol Pittman, “Harriet Lane’s Bell” (Southern History)

2nd ($250) Asiyyah Abass, “Indistinct Visions of Divided Wings: Aaron Novak’s Monarch Art” (Get ReadyÌę MFA Exhibit 2019, University Academic Center)

ÌęPlus: 25 Honorable Mention Awards$50 each

2018 Winners

2018 Winners and alumni
A Piece of the Past 2018 Winners, with Stewart Morris and Dr. Robert Sloan

Grand Prize Winner

Katrina Bolman, “Time Present and Time Past All Present in Time Future: The Russian Icon of the Triumphant Entry of Christ Into Jerusalem” (Fine Arts Museum)

Southern History/American Architecture and Decorative Arts

1st Phillip E. Salazar, “Seminole Doll: The Art of Selling Culture” (Decorative Arts)

2nd Jeremiah T. Holcomb, “The Radio—Waves of Progress: The 1940s Motorola Electric Box Radio” (Southern History)

Dunham Bible Museum

1st Seth Grant, “The Gospel of America’s Russian Apostle: The Gospel of Matthew, 1848, Aleut Translation”

2nd Jacob R. Johnson, “A Link in the Chain: The Pump Organ’s Role in the History of Christian Worship”

Art Museums

1st Kelley McLemore, “Christ’s Crucifixion—An Artist’s Clarion Call: MarcÌę Chagall’s “Esquisse Pour L’Exode” (Fine Arts Museum)

2nd Corrie McCloy, “Christ in Exile: Marc Chagall on Jewish Identity” (Fine Arts Museum)

Freshmen

1st Ngozi Paula Ejim, “She Builds Upon the Mirror: Jenny Fine’s ME” (Contemporary Art Museum)

2nd Rebecca A. Bargainer, “Mapping Houston’s Past: The 1869 Map of the City of Houston” (Decorative Arts Museum)

HCU Academy

1st Gabrielle Thomason, “The Child’s Bible By a Lady of Cincinnati” (Dunham Bible Museum)

2nd Cole O. Reynolds, “’A Well Founded Translation’: Charles Thomson’s Translation of the Bible” (Dunham Bible Museum)

2017 Winners

Grand Prize Winner

Corrie McCloy, “American Zouave: Fighting in Style”

Southern History/American Architecture and Decorative Arts

1st Christina Ta, “The Winnebago Indian: A Mysterious Doll and A People WeÌęAre Forever Connected to”

2nd Veronica Valle, “Dolls, Art, and Revolution: The Lay Figure Dolls for Jacques-Loui David’s The Coronation of Napoleon”

Dunham Bible Museum

Dunham Bible Museum Award Winners

1st Jonathan Richie, “On the Style and Substance inÌęFragments of a Greek Manuscript”

2nd Marisa Villarreal, “Clearing the Hurdles: The Gullah Bible of 2005”

Art Museums

1st Emilia Forbau, “Reclaiming the Christianized Jesus: Chagall’s Esquisse Pour L’Exode”

2nd Abigail Sims, “Split Rings: An Exercise in Minimalism, or How I Met Modern Art and Learned to Love It”

Freshman/HCU Academy

1st Alexander Hale, “War of the Boys: The Child’s Zouave Uniform”

2nd Ana Kriletic, “The Bible As A Weapon of Defense: Julia Evelina Smith’s Translated Bible”

2016 Winners

Grand Prize Winner

Jonathan Richie, “The Bodey Oil Lamp: The Illumination of Dating Through Construction and Design”

Southern History/American Architecture and Decorative Arts

1st Cora Cobb, “Reconstruction Era Quilts: Piecing Families Together”

2nd Nathan Cobb, “The Pianola: Profane or Beneficial?”

Dunham Bible Museum

1st Madeline Thorpe, “Justice in the Balance: The Word against the World in Acts and Monuments —An Original Leaf—Foxe’s Book of Martyrs, 1576”

2rd Emil Simon, “The Bible Says What? The Wicked Bible”

Art Museums

1st Allison Thai, “The Marriage At Cana by Marten Pepyn: A Baroque Treatment of Christ’s First Miracle”

2nd Duyen Nguyen, “Francken’s The Last Judgment”

Freshmen

1st Corrie McCloy, “The Realm of the Brownie”

2nd Amber Ontiveros, “The Birth of Modern Medicine”: William Gunnell’s Surgeon’s Set”

HCU Academy

1st Alexander B. Hale, “Surgical Saviors: The Civil War Era Surgeon’s Set”

2nd Sidarth Joshi, “The Minie Ball —The Innovation that Devastated the Confederacy”

2015

Grand Prize Winner

Southern History Museum

American Architecture and Decorative Arts

Dunham Bible Museum

Art Museums

Freshmen

1st Blake Richards, “The Surrender of Galveston and the Battle to Win It Back” (Southern History Museum)

2nd Doris M. Benavides, “Girls Gone Wild: The Flapper Dress” (Southern History Museum)

 

2014

Winners of the 2014 “A Piece of the Past”Ìę museum essay contest were announced March 27, 2014 at a special dinner for participants at the River Oaks Country Club. Read essays from the contest.

Grand Prize Winner

Andrew S. Jimenez, “America’s Heroes: Houston’s WWI Training Camp” (Southern HistoryÌęMuseum)

American Architecture and Decorative Arts

  • 1st Justin R. Brittain, “Transcending the Toy Box: ÌęThe Changing Meaning of the Doll”
  • 2nd Katie L. Kuhlman, “Always Remembered: A Human Hair Decoration from VictorianTimes”

Dunham Bible Museum

Museum of Southern History

  • 1st Kyra Brown, “More Than Just A Mammy: The Story Behind the Historic Academy Award Win of Hattie McDaniel”
  • 2nd Dayna C. Patterson, “Violence and Hate Without Reason”: A Ku Klux Klan Hood of the 1920s”

Fine Arts Museum and Contemporary Art Gallery

  • 1st Tia Lee Wettman, “Chagall’s Symbolism: Esquisse Pour L’Exode”
  • 2nd Nathan Cobb, “The Matterhorn: A Spirit of Adventure ”

Freshman Category

  • 1st Elizabeth J. Shecterle, “A Different Kind of Surgery: A Civil War Era Surgeon’s Set”
  • 2nd Samuel J. DeForke, “The Model 1842 Percussion Pistol – Its Time in History”

 

 

2013

Museum of Decorative Arts

Dunham Bible Museum

Museum of Southern History

Freshman Category

Honorable Mention

2012

Dunham Bible Museum

1st place, Nicholas van Cleve, “A Story of Remarkable Recovery”

2nd place, Andrew Adler, “The Initiative of John Eliot in the Translation and Printing of the Algonquian Bible “

2011

Dunham Bible Museum

1st place, Nicholas Mario Bruno, “Matthew Carey’s Douay-Rheims Bible”

2nd place, Andrew Adler, “Adoniram Judson’s Burmese Bible: A Product of Intellect, Passion, and Providence”