Streamwood Native Receives Graduate Honors at Illinois Wesleyan University

Posted May 14, 2017 11:00 pm

Kim Hill

BLOOMINGTON, Ill.- Streamwood native Kelly Mangan received the Hester Merwin Ayers Art Achievement Award during recent Commencement exercises at Illinois Wesleyan University.

The award honors outstanding achievement during four years of undergraduate study in art. Mangan graduated summa cum laude from Illinois Wesleyan May 7 with a major in art. She is a member of Phi Kappa Phi, Kappa Pi international honorary art fraternity, and was named to the Dean's List multiple semesters at Illinois Wesleyan. She was also honored with a Gallery Award during the annual Student Juried Art Exhibition in 2016.

Illinois Wesleyan is a top tier, national liberal arts university that is exclusively undergraduate. A highly selective institution, Illinois Wesleyan offers 81 majors, minors and programs in a unique curriculum that combines the liberal arts and sciences with professional schools of art, music, theatre, and nursing, and enrolls approximately 1,700 students from 33 states and 22 countries. Illinois Wesleyan is located in the central Illinois community of Bloomington-Normal.

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