39th Annual Student Art Show Opens Sunday

The Visual Arts Center of Tidewater Community College presents their 39th Annual Student Art Show.  The event features over 200 works by more than 100 students, media include drawing, painting, photography, glass, ceramics, sculpture, computer generated imagery and mixed media.  

The works for this show were created for art classes since last May, and represent program courses in Fine Arts, Photography, Graphic Design, Pottery and Glassblowing. 

Two images by artist Kristoffer Adams (shown right), Bomani & Panya (animation still, 2009) and artist John Gregor (shown below), Plane and Chisels (colored pencil, 2009).

The show opens March 28 and runs through April 25, 2010.   Brian Kreydatus, Associate Professor of Art, and Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, is this year’s judge.

The Awards Presentation will take place Saturday, April 10, 2010, 11 a.m., at The Commodore Theatre, 421 High Street, Portsmouth.  During the event, Kreydatus will present over $4,600 in awards in recognition of artistic excellence. The Opening Reception will follow the presentation of awards at noon at the Visual Arts Center.

Complementary programming for the exhibition includes illustrated lectures by a Visiting Artist and a Visiting Art Historian.  The dates are: 

Tuesday, April 6 - Newport News artist, John Miles Runner, will present The Making of Situation Normal.

Wednesday, April 14 - Alexandra Hunter, Museum Educator, Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, will present The Glass Lens: Narratives in Photography and Studio Glass.

Programs will begin at 12:30 p.m. and will be held in rooms 208/209 of the Visual Arts Center.

Sponsors include: Anonymous; Brutti’s; Chrysler Museum of Art; Darrell & Sally Craig; Hartung Gallery and Art Supplies; Jerry’s Artarama; Everett & Ann Johnston, Mr. & Mrs. Mearl A. Kise; Peninsula Fine Arts Center; Portsmouth Museums; Richmond Camera; & Tidewater Art Alliance and One Eleven Art.

The Visual Arts Center is located at Tidewater Community College, 340 High Street, Olde Towne Portsmouth.

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