Art Gallery: Student Show

I went over to the art gallery yesterday to respond to a call for volunteers to come and fold flyers/mailers for the upcoming juried art show next month. I enjoyed my time there talking to Susan, the new director and Estelle, who has helped out there for well over a year or more at the front desk. I folded for a couple of hours and then I walked around looking at the art. Before I did a group of kids from a local school came through to see the show and it was fun watching them look and vote for their favorites... It was quite a mix of photography, digital photography...

paintings, and drawings...

I've always liked this photo that I first saw in the book Family of Man years ago. I liked the way this student/artist took the photo outside it's previous boundaries...

and I loved this piece of sculpture. It just made me smile big time.

This one was so teenage attitudinal.

The title is: "Life Sucks".

don'tcha just love it?

I liked this prize winner...

and I liked this one nearby even more

maybe because it conveyed a different emotion to me

and made me FEEL more.

This didn't win an prize either, but to me it conveyed a lot of emotion.

I voted for this mixed media collage!

I thought it was fun. I volunteered to be available to help on the day the judges

judge the works to be in the juried show!

I learned so much last time, I am sure this year will

be as meaningful and helpful for me.

The judges this year are female too.

Last year they were all male.

I am curious to see if that makes a difference and if so how. ****

I also went to the thrift store yesterday

to satisfy my addiction;

to drop off a big bag of books for their free shelves;

and to buy some really cool stuff!

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