Calvin Students Ready for Art Shows

March 7, 2007 == MEDIA ADVISORY

Summary: Calvin College bachelor of fine arts students will present shows in
March at both Calvin and the college's gallery at 106 South Division.

Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/bfa-show.htm

A quartet of Calvin College bachelor of fine arts students will present work
that communicates across media in a pair of back-to-back exhibitions in two
different spaces.

First up will be "About that Time: 2007 BFA Exhibition," which will be held
Friday, March 9 through Saturday, March 17 at Calvin’s Center Art Gallery. An
opening reception for the exhibition will be held at the gallery 7-9 p.m. on
March 9.

A second show of different work by the same artists will be held Saturday,
March 16 through Friday, March 30 at 106 South Division, the college’s
downtown gallery. An opening reception for that show will be held from 6-9 p.m.
on Friday, March 16 at that venue.

The shows are a culmination of the students’ artistic careers at Calvin says
art history professor and exhibitions chair Lisa Van Arragon, who adds that the
BFA program at Calvin is demanding. Students apply with a portfolio of their
work, and, once in the program, they take an expanded course load -- which
includes a generous amount of time spent working in the studio -- and submit to
regular critiques of their work by the art faculty.

This year’s BFA exhibition features the work of ceramist and sculptor Robert
Bosscher, sculptor and painter Taylor Greenfield, sculptor and painter Heather
Luimes, and sculptor and photographer Bradley Smith.

Both shows are self-selected and self-installed by the students, and this too
prepares them as working artists, Van Arragon says.

Full story see http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2006-07/bfa-show.htm

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Received on Wed Mar 7 09:10:07 2007