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Juried Student Exhibition April 9-May 3

April 1, 2024

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MACOMB, IL - - The Western Illinois University Department of Art and Design will have its annual Juried Student Exhibition on display Tuesday, April 9-Friday, May 3 at the WIU Art Gallery.

A reception for the artists will be held from 4:30-6 p.m. Tuesday, April 9. Awards will be announced and the juror will speak at 5 p.m.

Exhibiting Artists:
Rivers Ashton, Brooke Baker, Madison Beck, Molly Borth, Agatha Carbonell Garcia, Alexis Danner-Clark, Ashley Derry, Delaney Egan, Abigail Ehrenberger, Venessa Ellis, Leslie Eutsler, Carolyn Foster, Ashley Garlick, Conor Geigner, Mary Hammond, David Hernandez, Brent Hopkins, Sadiq Jimoh, Grace Lessen, Maggie Long, Francesca Magalang, Bailey McKean, Kieara Morey, Michelle Narvaez, Avery Pearson, Julia Riley, Stephen Tan, Cora Wolford

Juror: Samantha Haring
Haring is an artist and educator from Des Plaines, IL. Haring earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from Northern Illinois University and her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. They spent a summer in Italy at the International School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture; it was there that they fully developed their commitment to light, color and observational painting. Haring was one of the 2015-16 Artists-in-Residence at Manifest Gallery, teaching drawing and design courses in the School of Design at the University of Cincinnati and she has been a Resident Instructor at Manifest Drawing Center since 2016. Haring's work is published in issues 119 and 123 of New American Paintings, as well as in several recent Manifest INDA and INPA publications. They are represented by Gallery 19 in Chicago; and studio practice is currently based in Cincinnati, where they spend an inordinate amount of time staring at the color of dust.

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