(April 25, 2014) Santa Fe, NM – NMSA’s Visual Arts Department is pleased to present the work of its third senior class in an annual exhibition at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum Education Annex at 123 Grant Street in Santa Fe (Monday-Friday, 10:00AM-4:30PM). The exhibition, “17 Kites: of Discord and Delight”, will be on display from May 8-18, 2014, with an opening reception on Thursday, May 8th, 7:00PM -9:00PM.
Seventeen Visual Arts department senior class students have been developing an independent, self-directed body of work during the year for this exhibition. Each student was given the freedom to create a series of works, a single large work, or an installation. “The senior art exhibition, “17 KITES”, is important to me because it is a chance to show what we have to offer as creative, imaginative young artists,” says senior Bo LeMieux.
Cristina Gonzalez, Chair of NMSA’s Visual Arts department, noted, “Our goal in assigning Senior Projects is to provide students an opportunity to explore a single theme of their own choosing. We neither set limits on the theme, nor do we give specific prompts. Rather, we ask students to clarify their own ideas and process. Over the course of a year, they identify subject matter, media, and primary influences. Ultimately, the students learn how to shape their response to their own work—a lasting skill for any artist.”
This particular cohort of students is the first to have completed a full, four-year cycle of arts coursework at NMSA. Each student’s work represents the learning and growth that each has experienced during this time. The students come from across New Mexico, including Abiquiu, Albuquerque, Bernalillo, Los Alamos, Pojoaque, and Santa Fe.