Institute wins top city art prize
Published 10:13 am Thursday, September 4, 2014
A microscopic image of a cell earned The Hormel Institute the annual city art prize. Photo provided
An annual city art prize was recently awarded to an unconventional winner: The Hormel Institute.
The Austin City Council gave the Austin ArtWorks Festival City Purchase Award — a $500 prize — to The Hormel Institute earlier this week.
The Institute displayed several microscopic images of cells and tissues at the Austin ArtWorks Festival. The winning one was of an overexpression of Cox2, a cancer-related protein, in rat oral cancer.
“I think it’s a really beautiful image,” Dr. Ted Hinchliffe of the Institute told the council.
The microscopic image came from Dr. Zigang Dong and Dr. Ann Bode’s “Molecular & Cellular Biology” research section.
The piece will be hung in City Hall.
Council members Jeremy Carolan and Michael Jordal picked the Institute’s piece for the annual award.
