Thursday, April 29, 2010

A&E notebook: What is art? Find out at UIS

Fourteen senior visual art majors at the University of Illinois Springfield will showcase their representation of what “Art Is” during an exhibition that opens today and continues through May 13.

The exhibit is at the UIS Visual Arts Gallery, Room 201 of the Health and Sciences Building at UIS.

Students showing work are Kaitlyn Bitner, Rachel Book, Kimberly Bretz, Willa Campbell, Lauren Cooper, Michael Curry, Adrian Hebert, Aby Lee Hood, Shannon Lubben, Ashley Moore, Valencia Robinson, Veronica Sparks, Emily Welch and Jennifer Yakes.

The exhibit opens with a reception at 5:30 p.m. today, beginning in the Visual Arts Gallery and concluding in the Access Gallery.

The senior exhibition was featured in a April 29, 2010, article in The State Journal-Register.

Download a PDF of the article