The UNC Asheville Department of Art & Art History invites current students, alumni, staff, faculty, and faculty emeriti of the Department to participate in THRIVE ! – an invitational exhibition of small works on paper. The public installation will be open for viewing from April 22 to August 1, 2022, in the hallway gallery next to the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Owen Hall. Past and present artists connected to the Department of Art & Art History are encouraged to mail in submissions for the exhibit by April 18.
“I wanted to express this idea that despite COVID, and despite our department’s relocation during renovation – art thrives here, it is the constant that cannot be disrupted,” says THRIVE ! curator Leisa Rundquist, professor of art history and curator of art collections at UNC Asheville. “The show will coincide with our department’s spring art sale and the announcement of departmental scholarships on Friday, April 22. We saw this moment as a great time to invite our alumni and emeriti back to Owen Hall to celebrate in person and/or contribute to the exhibition.”
The installation will be displayed as an informal arrangement. “It’s my hope that this group of work will embody a continuum of creative energy from the department’s past and present… hence the mantra, ‘art thrives here,’” says Rundquist.
Drawings, paintings, collages, prints, photographs, textiles, and relief sculptures (lightweight only) are all welcomed mediums for submission as long as the piece is fitted on paper around or less than 11″ x 14″.
The UNC Asheville Student Art & Ceramics Spring Sale takes place April 22-23, 2022 in the S. Tucker Cooke Gallery in Owen Hall. Sale times are Friday, 4/22 from 4 – 8 p.m. and Saturday, 4/23 from 10 a.m. – 2 p.m.
For more information, contact Leisa Rundquist (lrundqui@unca.edu) at 828-251-6848.
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