Collegiate's Own Art Walk: Advanced Art Show Opens May 18

    Last year's opening reception was a real happening, offering musical entertainment in several spots to serenade attendees as they approached or surveyed the art. This year, as last year, refreshments will be available, and the artists themselves will be present, camped out near their artwork to answer questions about their works, or simply to chat and get feedback.

    Art is located in the lobby of the Hershey Center for the Arts, as well as on the walls there. The walls of the North and South Science Buildings are used as well, and the stairwells of those buildings are transformed into mini gallery spaces or used for fanciful and intriguing installations.

    Upper School Art Teacher Pam Anderson is helping organize the show with her colleagues, and has worked with the artists to hang their art, and prepare for the interaction that will occur with attendees.  There is very accomplished, strong work being done by these Collegiate artists and the reception on May 18 is the culmination of their year's work,  when they will enjoy the experience of being a faeatured artist in a show, so please feel very free to come and enjoy the reception and art from six to eight p.m. on May 18 and show your support of their efforts and talents.

    Ms. Anderson's remarks on some of the art and artists are helpful to know what to expect, and will hopefully persuade anyone who is on the fence to come out. Ms. Anderson, in an e-mail to the school, remarked:

"From Friday, May 18th to graduation day the Advanced Art class will be presenting their work in individual showings around campus.

We hope you will come to our reception from 6 to 8 pm on Friday May 18th  in the Hershey Center, or at least promise to look when you are walking between buildings in the two weeks following the reception. Work will be housed in the HCA, and in both the North and South Science Buildings.

If you do look carefully you might see the following:

Marshall Agee’s giant molar made out of hundreds of disheveled candy-hearts (N. Science)

Trey Goggin’s sinister origami and gentle silhouetted cranes installed side by side to create a questionable natural environment (S. Science)

Laura Bagbey’s poetic reflection on the massacre at Va Tech (N. Science)

Art-school bound Jenna Kaminsky’s tender figurative drawings that ask us to consider the power of the media in determining notions of beauty and identity (S. Science)

The crazy-gorgeous oil stick wanderings of Meg Timmons. Those and a geisha made out of licorice. (S. Science)

Frannie Parkinson’s sensitive, mixed media pieces that distill her experiences of Honduras. (HCA front hall)

The incomparable charcoal hand drawings—and familial musings-- of Sophia Niazi (N. Science)

And last, but not least, the photographs of Ben Michael, several of which are shredded to become “water” in a ribcage wall sculpture (N. Science)

I know it would mean a lot to these eight students if some of their friends were there to support them. I hope you will be able to see the artistic fruits of their labors."