Melissa Tubbs, Artwork Contest Chair
When you inherit the organization of a student event as I did with the CT COLT Poster Contest in 2020, you tread lightly and learn all you can for the first year. The Student Events Coordinator, Judith Ojeda, planted the seed about “growing” the contest right away, however, and it gradually became the lens through which I viewed the entire experience as chair. During the pandemic, I often wondered about my and my colleagues’ students’ different rates of access to things like WiFi, a quiet workspace, three square meals… and, now, I wondered about art supplies…