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UNIVERSITY NEWS - FEBRUARY 2004
MEDIA CONTACT: Kristine M. McGrath
International Theme Of Coexistence Frames Annual FAU Student Exhibition
BOCA RATON, FL (February 19, 2004)
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Florida Atlantic University's Ritter
Art Gallery will present Coexistence, The Annual Juried
Student Art Exhibition on Wednesday, March 3, 2004, with a
public reception and awards presentation from 7 to 9 p.m. The
opening reception and other events presented in association
with the exhibition are free and open to the public. The
exhibition will remain open through April 10.
The Annual Juried Student Art
Exhibition is open to FAU students who may submit up to
three works. The exhibition will be juried by
internationally recognized New York painter David Row.
Monetary awards will be split among three students and
several honorable mentions will be awarded. In addition,
the FAU Potters Guild will present awards for ceramic works
in the exhibition.
This year's Juried Student Art
Exhibition employs a theme, Coexistence, to tie the FAU
exhibition to an international billboard exhibition of the
same name that will be presented in Boca Raton's Sanborn
Square from Wednesday, March 10 through Saturday, March 27.
The traveling billboard exhibition is organized by Museum
on the Seam, Israel and is circulated in Florida by the
Florida Holocaust Museum, St. Petersburg. For information
about these events and the opening event on Wednesday,
March 10, visit www.leahforkids.org or
www.coexistence.art.museum.
In association with the student
exhibition and the Coexistence billboard exhibition, a
lecture, Cross-Cultural Sensitivity in the Age of
Globalization, will be presented by Dr. Irina Sheina from
the Ryazan State Pedagogical University in Russia. The
lecture will be presented on Thursday, March 4 at 4 p.m. in
the Ritter Art Gallery by the FAU College of Education's
Center for Holocaust and Human Rights Education.
Coexistence, The Annual Juried Student
Art Exhibition is a collaborative project of FAU's School of
the Arts and the Center for Holocaust and Human Rights
Education. The exhibition is made possible in part by FAU
Student Government, through student activity fees; Florida
Department of State, Division of Cultural Affairs; Florida
Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts; Palm
Beach County Cultural Council and contributions from Friends
of the University Galleries.
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