Entries Welcomed for Annual Art Show

Lone Star College Kingwood News

Published on: April 20, 2015
Lone Star College-Kingwoods Fine Arts Gallery is now accepting entries for the annual Juried Student Art Show July 20 Aug. 26. The show is sponsored by the Durdin family, owners of Parkway Family Mazda and Kia.
We are very grateful for the generosity and support of the student show sponsors, the Durdin Family and Parkway Family Mazda and Kia, said Kris Larson, gallery director. They are longstanding supporters of the Humble Independent School District and education. They also sponsor higher education and the arts by providing additional financial assistance and services to students and families throughout the Humble, Atascocita, and Kingwood communities.
The deadline for entering art work is at midnight on May 8. More information about the registration process is available both in class and on the gallery website. All gallery events are free and open to the public.
This years Juried Student Art Show will include art work produced in studio art classes during the 2014-2015 academic year at LSC-Kingwood. The students art work will be judged in three categories: photography, 2-D (design I, design III and drawing) and 3-D (ceramics). This show is a part of the studio art class curriculum. Credit students who enter work may be eligible to win cash scholarships, thanks to the Durdin family.
The guest juror will be Natasha Bowdoin. Bowdoin earned a Master of Fine Arts degree from Tyler School of Art in Rome in 2007 and a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brandeis University in Waltham, MA in 2003. She has presented solo exhibitions of her work nationally and internationally at Monya Rowe Gallery in New York, Talley Dunn Gallery in Dallas, The Visual Arts Center in Austin, the Roswell Museum of Art in New Mexico, and Extraspazio in Rome. Bowdoin has been included in various group shows such as the CODA Museum in Apeldoorn, The Netherlands; the Southeastern Center for Contemporary ...

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