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# Students on display
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/students-on-display/
- Published: 2004-06-07T15:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T04:30:57.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Education, Santa Monica, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Nineteen students in the highly selective SMC Art Mentor Program are showing their work at the college’s Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery.

The program is a year-long program for gifted visual art and art history students, selected by SMC’s art department faculty. The opening reception for the exhibition, “Available Space,” will be from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on June 19 at the gallery, located at SMC’s Madison campus on Santa Monica Boulevard at 11th Street.

This year’s participants have wide-ranging future plans. Some will transfer to the Art Institute of Chicago, Rhode Island School of Design and UCLA. Others will continue studies at SMC or pursue gallery exhibits, art residencies, graduate school, art education, public art and film.

The works will be on exhibit from June 19 to July 17\. They include paintings, sculptures, video, mixed media, photography and installation.

“We speak for the program’s entire faculty when we commend our students on both their individual and collaborative work, and anticipate their success as our future colleagues,” said Maurizio Barattucci, SMC art department chair.

Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m., Tuesday through Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. Thursday. For more information, call (310) 434-3434.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on June 7, 2004.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/060704.pdf?ref=smdp.com)