By Daily Press staff
Santa Monica College art mentor students are ready to show their talent in an upcoming art exhibit entitled “Catalyst.”
The art mentor program is a year-long program for gifted visual art and art history students, selected by SMC art department faculty. The program — in many ways similar to a graduate school program — was created to provide an innovative, experimental and interdisciplinary environment for students to explore a variety of art forms, professional practices and critical theory, school officials say. Students work in small groups with a professional artist or art historian, visit artists’ studios and art institutions, and participate in group discussions and critiques.
Art mentor alumni have gone on to various schools throughout the nation. The work in the exhibit includes painting, sculpture, ceramics, video, mixed media, and digital images and installation. The student artists are Teresa Amanfu, Kit Bessenbacher, Anna Bruinsma, Florence Canicave, Phoebe Chui, Leanne Dare, Udeni Dharmapala, Visperd Doust, Meghan Drean, Anita Faye Korngute, Marc Hirsch, Lina Högberg, J. Andrew Klein, Linda Larson, Francisco Martinez, Stefan Meyer, Jenn Romero, Sharron Shayne, and Del Simplicio. The art historians are Jo Ann Robson and Esenija Rudolf.
The opening reception for the exhibition will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Friday, June 3, at the college’s Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, located at SMC’s Madison campus on Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street.
For more information, call (310) 434-3434. Students at Crossroads School receive accolades
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 2, 2005. Read the original PDF.