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"Teen Visions '10" features more than 130 artworks by over 60 high school students, January 21 - February 3, 2010.
POUGHKEEPSIE, NY –The annual exhibition Teen Visions '10 will feature more than 130 paintings, drawings, sculptures, and photographs by over 60 students of the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft at the James W. Palmer III Gallery at Vassar College. Students from more than 20 area high schools will exhibit their work in this juried show that will be on view from Thursday, January 21 through Wednesday, February 3.
In conjunction with the eighth annual Modfest ─ an annual celebration of the arts of the 20th and 21st centuries ─ on January 21 a reception for Teen Visions '10 will open the festival from 4:00 - 7:00pm with an artists' reception, followed by a performance in the North Atrium of the College Center by Stringendo and the Capella Festiva Treble Choir and readings by high school students who are alumnae of Mill Street Loft's PASWORD and Project AWARE empowerment programs. All events are free and open to the public. The gallery is open Mondays through Fridays, 11:00 am to 6:00 pm; Saturdays from 12:00 to 6:00 pm.
Representing a wide variety of media, the artwork exhibited in Teen Visions ’10 was selected by a panel of educators from more than 1500 works, based upon artistic statement, vision, and visual acuity, as well as individual accomplishment.
Todd Poteet, the director of the Art Institute, noted that Teen Visions is the first major exhibition for many of students included in the show. According to Poteet, this exhibition helps to build students’ confidence in their art and the power of their artistic voice, as well as validating the work they create.
“Teen Visions also allows the students to showcase their talents among a group of their peers,” Poteet remarked. “This show becomes a positive reflection of their accomplishments in the arts on their resumes and applications to college. This is the first step in their journey to obtaining a professional career in the arts.”
Teresa Quinn, executive director of campus activities, noted that "Teen Visions '10 is one of the most anticipated and well attended exhibitions of the year. Experiencing the art work created by these students is inspiring and the opportunity to meet the artists at the opening reception is an added bonus."
About Mill Street Loft
Mill Street Loft is an award-winning multi-arts educational center in Poughkeepsie dedicated to bringing a wide range of creative, educational and culturally enriching outreach and tuition-based programs to diverse audiences throughout the Hudson Valley (http://www.millstreetloft.org). Designed for motivated teens ages 14-18, the program is completely run by professional artists to help develop skills in visual and media arts.The Art Institute aims to prepare students for top art schools, to excel in the program of study they choose, and to become working professional artists in their prospective fields. Since 2000, Art Institute graduates have received offers of more than $12 million in merit-based scholarships to the nation’s major colleges, universities, and art schools, including Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts (SVA), Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Columbus College of Art and Design, and the Cooper Union. This summer they plan to expand their offerings with a new residential component to their Art Institute Summer Intensive.
For further information, please contact Todd Poteet, director of the Art Institute, at 845-471-7477.
About the James W. Palmer III Gallery
Situated between the North Atrium and the Retreat cafeteria, the James W. Palmer III Gallery is at the heart of the College Center. Constructed in 1996, the gallery was named and endowed by the Palmer family in 2000 in memory of their son James, a member of the class of 1990. Serving as an exhibition space for artwork created within and beyond the Vassar community, the gallery displays art of diverse mediums, themes, and origins.Individuals with disabilities requiring accommodations at Vassar should contact the Office of Campus Activities at (845) 437-5370. Without sufficient notice, appropriate space and/or assistance may not be available. Directions to the Vassar campus are available at www.vassar.edu/directions.
Vassar College is a highly selective, coeducational, independent, residential liberal arts college founded in 1861.
Spring 2010 Schedule of Exhibitions
James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery, Vassar College
124 Raymond Avenue
Poughkeepsie, NY 12604
(845) 437-5970 or http://arts.vassar.edu
Thursday, January 21 - Wednesday, February 3
Teen Visions ‘10
An exhibition of work from the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft
Artist reception - Thursday, January 21, 4:00 - 7:00pm
Artist reception is followed by musical performances by area high school students from Stringendo and original poetry by alumnae of Mill Street Loft’s Girls’ Empowerment Programs at 6:30pm.
Presented in conjunction with the Art Institute of Mill Street Loft - a pre-college portfolio development program.
Sunday, February 7 – Saturday, February 20
Modfest W. K. Rose Exhibition
Opening reception – Sunday February 7, 5:00 PM
An exhibition celebrating the visiting W. K. Rose Fellows and featuring the artwork of Eleanor Daniels ’66 and Katherine Mangiardi ’09, the earliest and most recent recipients in visual art.
Wednesday, February 24 – Thursday, March 4
4 x 4
Artists: Rhys Bambrick '11, Joseph Redwood-Martinez '11, Charlie Warren '10, Russell Webner '11
Opening reception Wednesday February 24, 5:00pm
Four artists will use the Palmer Gallery as a site for collaboration throughout the course of the exhibition.
Sunday, March 21 - Saturday, March 27
A Celebration of Art
The Annual John Iyoya Children's Art Show
Reception Sunday, March 21 at 2:00pm
An annual event honoring the memory of John Iyoya, a former Vassar student, who exemplified a wonderful sense of creativity and love of children. The show is sponsored by the Department of Education and features the artwork of students from area participating schools.
Sunday, March 28- Friday, April 2
Vassar College Studio Art Department student exhibitions
Rotating schedule
Monday, April 5 – Thursday, April 8
The Annual Haitian Art Auction and Sale
Sponsored by the Vassar Haiti Project
300 original Haitian paintings, handcraft, hand-painted silk scarves, and iron sculpture
Friday, April 9 to Sunday, May 23
Vassar College Studio Art Department student exhibitions
Rotating schedule
Posted by Office of Communications Thursday, December 17, 2009
About the Arts
Powerhouse Theater
The Powerhouse Theater is a collaboration between New York Stage and Film and Vassar College. It is dedicated to both emerging and established artists in the development and production of new works for theater and film. During an intense eight-week summer residency on the Vassar campus, up to twenty different projects are publicly presented, typically engaging more than 200 professional artists and theater students. Plays, musicals, and screenplays are presented in a variety of forms: readings, workshops, and fully staged productions. Since the first Powerhouse Theater season in 1985, New York Stage and Film and Vassar have served more than 2,000 artists and over 175,000 audience members through the development and production of artistically exceptional and affordably priced performances.
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Located just inside Vassar's Main Gate, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center houses the college's permanent collection, over 18,000 works, including paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photographs, and glass and ceramic wares, charting the history of art from antiquity to the present. The Permanent Collection Galleries feature 350 works, ranging from the sculpted Head of Viceroy Merymose from His Outer Sarcophagus (Egyptian, c 1375 BCE) in the Antiquities Gallery to Marsden Hartley's oil on canvas Indian Composition (1914-15) in the Twentieth Century Gallery. For information on current and upcoming special exhibitions, self-guided and curriculum-based tours, and group visits, please visit the website. The art center is open to the public, and admission is free.
James W. Palmer Gallery
Located in the College Center in Main Building, the James W. Palmer III '90 Gallery presents eight shows annually, including exhibitions by renowned artists and photographers, studio art faculty and students, and local arts organizations. Recent highlights included Andrea Baldeck’s black-and-white photo exhibit, Touching the Mekong: A Southeast Asian Sojourn, organized by the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology; the Vassar Haiti Project’s annual exhibition and auction of imported arts and handcrafts; and Design Inside, showcasing the work of Vassar’s College Relations design team. All exhibitions are free and open to the public. For information on upcoming exhibitions, visit the website or call (845) 437-5370.
Music Department
Located in the Belle Skinner Hall of Music, the Martel Recital Hall is wonderfully suited, both acoustically and aesthetically, to music performance. With seating for 500, the Martel is home to the Vassar College Orchestra, Choir, Women's Chorus, Madrigal Singers, and numerous chamber groups and ensembles. The Martel concert schedule routinely includes distinguished guest artists, faculty recitals, senior recitals, and special musical events, such as last year's series of organ recitals celebrating the installation and dedication of the college's superb pipe organ, designed by masterbuilder Paul Fritts. For information on upcoming concerts and events (which are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted), please visit the website.
Dance Department
The Department of Dance sponsors several public performances each year. Among those, the Vassar Repertory Dance Theatre (VRDT) has a series of Works in Progress showings in the fall, a winter Modfest performance in conjunction with the The Department of Music, winter galas at the 1869 Bardavon Opera House, and two All Parents Weekend performances in the spring. The department's Master Class program annually invites at least one ballet and one modern expert to campus in addition to two people in other areas of dance. Public performances and lectures are often associated with these renowned visitors. Guest artists in the past have included: Irina Kolpokova, Arthur Mitchell, Helene Alexopoulos, Gregory Hines, Anna Kisselgoff, Donald Byrd, Edward Villella, Ronald K. Brown, Irene Dowd, Allegra Kent, Gelsey Kirkland, Pilobolus w/Adam Battlestein, Suzanne Farrell, Mummenschantz, Eldar Aliev, Deborah Jowitt, Bill T. Jones, Pascal Rioult, Clinton Luckett of ABT, Bill Irwin, and Donald McKayle. Many of the department's dance performances are in the Frances Daly Fergusson Dance Theater, located in Kenyon Hall.
Drama Department Experimental Theater
Presenting several public performances each semester in the Martel Theater of the Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film and the Hallie Flanagan Davis Powerhouse Theater, the Experimental Theater is a place to explore theories learned in the classroom and to experiment with theatrical forms. In the tradition of pioneering stage director Hallie Flanagan, students are encouraged to experience and experiment with all aspects of the theater. Flanagan, who accepted a position to teach drama at Vassar in 1925, founded the Experimental Theater following her visit to the theaters of Europe in 1926 on a Guggenheim Fellowship. (http://drama.vassar.edu).
Film
The Film Department at Vassar College hosts a steady stream of guest artists and lecturers and is located in the state-of-the-art Vogelstein Center for Drama and Film. The film program encompasses major aspects of the discipline: the history and theory of cinema, dramatic writing, and film/video/digital production, within the framework of a liberal arts education.
Archives and Special Collections Library
A rotating series of exhibitions is offered each year by the Catherine Pelton Durrell '25 Archives and Special Collections Library, which is the principal repository of the College's noteworthy collections of rare books, manuscripts, archival records of Vassar College, and other special materials. The library's collections date from the 15th century (the age of incunabula) to the present. Notable examples include books important in women's history, first editions of English and American literary and historical works, examples of fine printing, collections of courtesy and cookbooks, children's books, and rare maps and atlases. The Virginia B. Smith Manuscript Collection includes manuscripts by and about women which were gathered during President Smith’s tenure, such as the papers of Mary McCarthy and Elizabeth Bishop. Also of note are papers of writers Samuel L. Clemens and Edna St. Vincent Millay; early naturalist John Burroughs, historian Lucy Maynard Salmon, feminist and historian Alma Lutz, astronomer Maria Mitchell, anthropologist Ruth Benedict, and physicist Albert Einstein. Archives and Special Collections is located in the Frederick Ferris Thompson Memorial Library.
Visit the Archives and Special Collections Exhibition website
Press Contact
Emily Darrow
Associate Director of Media Relations
(845) 437-7690
emdarrow@vassar.edu
