The Cameron University Foundation has established the Jane Godlove Art Career Development Award thanks to a $10,000 gift from the Leslie Powell Foundation. The endowment will fund a scholarship award to assist deserving full-time Cameron art students who must frame their work for CU’s Senior Art Show and art competitions for which student artwork has been accepted.
The endowment is named for former faculty member Jane Godlove, an alumna who earned a Master of Science degree in behavioral sciences. A Spanish teacher, Godlove retired as director of CU’s Language Learning Center following 15 years of service to the university.
Godlove has extensive ties to the arts community in southwest Oklahoma. She is a former member of the Leslie Powell Foundation Board of Directors. Additionally, she and her husband Ernest are long-time supporters of the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute at Quartz Mountain. In 1983, she was named Citizen of the Arts by the City of Lawton and the Lawton Arts and Humanities Council.
“Because Jane still carries a great love for Cameron, the members of the Leslie Powell Foundation board of directors are happy to pay tribute to her,” says Paige Michener, chair. “We are proud to honor her dedication to art through her involvement with the Leslie Powell Foundation board and other arts-related activities in southwest Oklahoma.”
Michener was joined by Leslie Powell Foundation board members John Kennedy II, Cathy Ross and Edna McMillan, who is also a professor of art at CU. Matthew D. Hughes, executive director and curator of the Leslie Powell Gallery, which hosts Cameron’s Senior Art Show each year, was also in attendance.
The Jane Godlove Art Career Development Award will be awarded to full-time students who are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in art, who have completed more than 60 credit hours and who have a cumulative grade point average of 2.5 or higher.
“The establishment of this award is a wonderful gesture to encourage and support Cameron’s junior and senior art students,” says Jennifer Meason, president of the Cameron University Foundation. “It is truly a wonderful way to honor Jane’s contribution to art.”
“It’s a win-win-win for all the parties,” says CU President Jari Askins. “In this time of thanksgiving, it is the perfect kickoff to the season.”
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