MCC Daily Tribune

Romy Stoffel's Illustration Selected for MCC's 2023 Holiday Card

Please join me in congratulating MCC's Commercial Art & Illustration student Romy Stoffel for their winning illustration, titled “Harmony in Heights” that adorns MCC’s 2023 holiday card. The illustration is attached to this article.

Inspired by Professor James Downer’s (School of Arts & Humanities/Visual and Performing Arts), Stoffel and classmates developed visual solutions with the theme “Relevance in Transformation—Together as One” in mind.

MCC’s Vice Presidents and I selected Stoffel’s creation as the top visual solution for this year’s holiday card. Congratulations also to Cecilia Headlam and Nguyen Phu, who earned 2nd and 3rd place honors respectively, and all of the Commercial Art and Illustration program students who participated.

Each time MCC inspires students to see themselves as scholars, leaders, peacemakers, and artists, we receive a gift that transcends expectations. We have much to celebrate this season and even more to look forward to in 2024.

Description of Harmony in Heights by Romy Stoffel (JPG):

On a lite blue background with the boarders fading out onto the page, standing to the right is a snowman, with a wide base that is more oblong than circular. On top of the base is a smaller round middle section with three pieces of charcoal in the middle to act as buttons and two thin twigs, one on each side, to act as arms. The top of the snowman is a smaller round portion of snow, with two coal eyes, a pointy carrot for a nose with four pieces of coal spaced and shaped into a smile. To the left of the snowman is a doe standing, colored in a medium grey. Upon their head, which is tilted up, stands a medium grey raccoon whose hands are lifted upward. Upon the head of the racoon stands a dark grey rabbit whose hands are extended, holding a top hat, which they are placing on the snowman’s head. This image was created on the artist’s iPad using Procreate app.

DeAnna Burt-Nanna
Office of the President
12/07/2023