Annual Juried Student Exhibition March 18 - April 14

Select pieces by York College art students will be featured in the Annual Juried Student Exhibition from March 18-April 14. The opening reception will be on March 18, from 5-7 p.m., in the York Galleries, Evelyn and Earle Wolf Hall. The exhibition will close on April 1-5 for spring break at the College.

All events in the York College Galleries are open to the public free of charge. The Galleries are open Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 10 p.m., and Friday and Saturday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The galleries are closed Sunday. For more information, contact Matthew Clay-Robison at mclayrob@ycp.edu or call 717-815-6622.

The Annual Juried Student Exhibition features selected work from students taking courses in art and design at York College. The Juror’s Choice Award and the First, Second and Third Place awards will be presented to the winners at 5:30 p.m. during the opening reception. The Annual Purchase Award, sponsored by the Schmidt Library of York College, will also be presented at that time.

This year’s juror is Scotland native Dawn Gavin (www.dawngavin.com), named one of the “Ten Best Baltimore Artists of 2008” by the Baltimore Arts Examiner. Gavin has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, as well as at Auburn University, Goucher College, and Texas Woman’s University. Her work utilizes a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, collage, video, and installation. She uses maps and related materials to explore boundaries, identity and displacement.

Gavin is a professor of art at the University of Maryland, College Park. She has written for Ireland’s Circa Arts Magazine and was a contributing editor for Scotland’s Transcript: A Journal of Visual Culture.

About the image: "David" by former York College student Scott Poulter, 2009 Juror's Choice Award.