Outside The Lines
By Ralph Schaffer
On February 15, the Art Department at St. Louis Community College-Florissant Valley hosted the Closing Reception and Awards Ceremony for its 25th Annual High School Art Exhibit.
FV Art Department faculty selected over 30 pieces for this juried exhibit on display at the campus Contemporary Art Gallery in the Instructional Resources Building. The evening included tours of the Art Department and Labs in the Humanities Building. Art work from the young artists included a variety of mediums like acrylic, ceramics, graphite, oil pastel, PhotoShop, watercolor and clay.
“It is very crucial that high school students are
recognized,” says Deb Jenkins, gallery director.
Some of the work exhibited also challenged the “rules” of
fine art that college art students often get drilled on in their studies. “High school artists tend to be a little less fearless,” said
Jenkins. “It’s fun to see high school students breaking the rules (of
art)."
Participants included high students from Francis Howell Central, Collegiate School of Medicine and BioScience, Hazelwood Central, Hazelwood East, Hazelwood West, Edwardsville, East St. Louis, Pattonville, Parkway South, Lutheran North, Kirkwood, McCluer North, Ritnour, Incarnate Word Academy, Timberland, Metro Academic and Classical Academy and Desmet Jesuit.
The next exhibit in the gallery:
February 26 – April 6, 2018
Stamps of Hope: Syrian Refugee Traveling Art Exhibit
Work compiled by Rihab Sawah
Reception: Thursday, March 22,
2017 Brunch and Presentation at 9:30 outside the Contemporary
Gallery (IR-111) and
Evening Presentation from 6-8pm. Middle-Eastern Food Provided
For more information about the Art Gallery please contact the STLCC Florissant Valley Art Department at 314-513-4375 or www.stlcc.edu/Programs/General_Fine_Arts/Florissant Valley.
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