2015 Juried Student Art Exhibition to open Feb. 5 at Schick Art Gallery

Skidmore's Schick Art Gallery will present the 2015 Juried Student Exhibition, a celebration of the creativity, imagination, and skill of Skidmore students, from Feb. 5 to March 9, 2015. An opening reception will start at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 5, at the gallery. The event is open to the public.

Any Skidmore student (including non-art majors) who has taken an art class in the past year may enter up to three works for the juror. A guest juror then selects the exhibition from works submitted in the areas of painting, drawing, ceramics, sculpture, jewelry and metals, fiber arts, printmaking, graphic design, and photography. From an average of 250 entries, the juror typically chooses between 50 and 75 works for exhibit, and also selects outstanding works for special awards. Awards and gift certificates totaling over $1,000 are funded annually through donations by friends of the gallery, campus organizations, and generous community benefactors, including the Adirondack Trust, Soave Faire, and Allerdice Building Supply. Awards will be presented at the opening reception.

The guest juror for this year’s exhibition is Laura Von Rosk, artist and director of the Courthouse Gallery at the Lake George Arts Project. Von Rosk earned a masters in fine arts degree at the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s in fine arts degree from the State University of New York at Purchase. Her landscape paintings maintain an exquisite tension between natural and invented forms, and have been exhibited nationally in both solo and group shows. She is the recipient of numerous awards and residencies, including a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship in painting, grants from the Pollack-Krasner Foundation, and residencies at Yaddo, Blue Mountain Center, and the Millay Colony. 

All Schick Gallery events are free and open to the public. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays, and from noon to 4 p.m. weekends.  For more information, please visit the gallery website at www.skidmore.edu/schick.