April 24, 2008 == MEDIA ADVISORY
Summary: Senior students at Calvin are prepping for a variety of
semester-ending presentations as part of their college curriculum.
Full story see
http://www.calvin.edu/news/releases/2007-08/art-dept-bfa-symposium-ba.htm
As spring semester draws to a close, art students of various stripes are
gearing up to present their work at a series of premier events: the bachelor of
fine arts exhibition, the art history symposium and the bachelor of arts
exhibition.
First up is "Sticks and Stones," the bachelor of fine arts (BFA) exhibition, to
be held on Friday, April 25 through Saturday, May 3 at the college's Center Art
Gallery. A reception for the event happens from 7 to 9 p.m. on opening night.
"Sticks and Stones" features the work of photographers and mixed media artists
Tracy Rose Guajardo and Ruth Ribeiro, painter and printmaker Sarah Bakker and
painter and ceramist Eric Heerspink, Calvin's BFA graduates. The BFA is an
intensive program which requires that students achieve advanced level in at
least three media: drawing, painting, sculpture, printmaking, ceramics,
photography and communication design.
The second event on the horizon is the annual art history symposium, to be held
May 2, and the final event is the annual bachelor of arts (BA) exhibition, to
be held May 9–17 at the Center Art Gallery with a reception on Friday, May 16.
This second student showcase features the art in various media of Calvin's
graduates in the bachelor of arts, a liberal-arts focused art degree.
All three events are capstone achievements for the many and various types of
art graduates produced by the department said Calvin art history professor
Henry Luttikhuizen.
"The public nature of it all is very important," he said, "because it allows
the students to recognize their scholarship as a service. It's also important
to the department because it shows the fruits of our labor, and it gives
family, friends, colleagues and the community the opportunity to celebrate our
students' work."
Heerspink, who has already landed a post-graduate gig teaching art at the
middle and high school level in Miami, agrees.
"I'm always excited to do shows because it's kind of depressing when an
artist's work sits on a shelf in a classroom," he said.
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