2008 Woodie Awards
Senior Art Show Opens Next Week
Jami Furo
Issue date: 4/21/06 Section: News
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The members Rollins College Department of Art and Art History are getting ready for this year's senior art show. Framed: 2006 Senior Art Show will open on April 28 and run until May 14.
Though the newly refurbished Cornell Fine Arts Museum opened in January of this year, this is the first time that student art will be displayed in the museum. Nineteen seniors will be participating in the event, including Shannon Scott, Kerry Cox, Laura Link, Dani Dalgin, Caitrin Merrill, Ashley Sakmar, Amy Hayes, Jasmine Parker, Nicole Hektner, Audim Culver, Kristina Pompa, Sally Johnston, Danielle Lunger, Cole Borgeson, Jessica Wheat, Blair Fawcett, Molly Lehnhardt, Gigi Fouquet and Annie Hable. This group is the largest graduating class from the Rollins art department in the history of the college.
Luanne McKinnon, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum Curator of Exhibitions, made the decisions on what would be included in the show. Her criteria were that the pieces were to demonstrate both creative innovation and the skill of the student artists.
The students will be showing a variety of different pieces at the show. The subjects range from self-portraits to images of travel experiences to images of the human figure, in addition to other subjects. The media are at least as equally diverse. Some of the pieces are photographs, including both black-and-white and color photography. Others are paintings. Still others are mixed media prints. The show is not limited to traditional media, however. It will also include graphic designs and digital paintings. Most of the pieces will be on sale at the exhibition.
The show will open with a reception that is free and open to the community on April 28 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The event is intended to serve as the entrance of the seniors into the local artists' community. The students worked together to design an invitation for the opening reception. They have also worked together to promote the show.
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum began its season on January 22 of this year when the building reopened. The exhibitions this season have included Eye to Eye, an exhibition on a wide array of portraiture from the year 1561 all the way to the year 2005; Director's Choice: European Art, 1345 to 1901, which includes some of the museum's most significant European pieces; and Winslow Homer Illustrating War, a show of Homer's prints from the Civil War.
The newly refurbished museum includes four galleries-two for showing selections of the museum's collection of more than 6000 pieces, and two for showing exhibitions that rotate in and out of the museum. It also includes spaces for classes and community events, along with a facility where visitors can study the prints in the museum's collection.
The museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. After the opening night of Framed, the senior art show can be viewed at these times through May 14. Cornell Fine Art Museum members, students, facult, and staff of Rollins College receive free admission, and all other adults are charged five dollars.
Any questions about the senior art show can be directed to Vicki Brodnax at (407) 646-2526 or at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum website, which is www.rollins.edu/cfam.
Though the newly refurbished Cornell Fine Arts Museum opened in January of this year, this is the first time that student art will be displayed in the museum. Nineteen seniors will be participating in the event, including Shannon Scott, Kerry Cox, Laura Link, Dani Dalgin, Caitrin Merrill, Ashley Sakmar, Amy Hayes, Jasmine Parker, Nicole Hektner, Audim Culver, Kristina Pompa, Sally Johnston, Danielle Lunger, Cole Borgeson, Jessica Wheat, Blair Fawcett, Molly Lehnhardt, Gigi Fouquet and Annie Hable. This group is the largest graduating class from the Rollins art department in the history of the college.
Luanne McKinnon, the Cornell Fine Arts Museum Curator of Exhibitions, made the decisions on what would be included in the show. Her criteria were that the pieces were to demonstrate both creative innovation and the skill of the student artists.
The students will be showing a variety of different pieces at the show. The subjects range from self-portraits to images of travel experiences to images of the human figure, in addition to other subjects. The media are at least as equally diverse. Some of the pieces are photographs, including both black-and-white and color photography. Others are paintings. Still others are mixed media prints. The show is not limited to traditional media, however. It will also include graphic designs and digital paintings. Most of the pieces will be on sale at the exhibition.
The show will open with a reception that is free and open to the community on April 28 from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The event is intended to serve as the entrance of the seniors into the local artists' community. The students worked together to design an invitation for the opening reception. They have also worked together to promote the show.
The Cornell Fine Arts Museum began its season on January 22 of this year when the building reopened. The exhibitions this season have included Eye to Eye, an exhibition on a wide array of portraiture from the year 1561 all the way to the year 2005; Director's Choice: European Art, 1345 to 1901, which includes some of the museum's most significant European pieces; and Winslow Homer Illustrating War, a show of Homer's prints from the Civil War.
The newly refurbished museum includes four galleries-two for showing selections of the museum's collection of more than 6000 pieces, and two for showing exhibitions that rotate in and out of the museum. It also includes spaces for classes and community events, along with a facility where visitors can study the prints in the museum's collection.
The museum is open from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Sunday. After the opening night of Framed, the senior art show can be viewed at these times through May 14. Cornell Fine Art Museum members, students, facult, and staff of Rollins College receive free admission, and all other adults are charged five dollars.
Any questions about the senior art show can be directed to Vicki Brodnax at (407) 646-2526 or at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum website, which is www.rollins.edu/cfam.