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42nd Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, 2012

The McCutchan Art Center/Pace Galleries at the Ã山ǿ¼é is proud to announce the 42nd Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, on display April 1 – 29, 2012.  The juror, John Begley, Director of the Hite Institute Galleries at the University of Louisville, selected 181 works of art created in the past year from the over 425 submitted for inclusion in the show. 

A reception for the artists will be held on Sunday, April 1, 2 – 4 pm, with the Awards Ceremony at 3 pm.  Over $7800 in merit awards, scholarships, and purchase awards, generously donated by area business and individuals, will be announced at that time.  The public is cordially invited to attend the reception and to view the exhibition.

Passion Burns From Within, by Norman Knorr, won the Best of Show award.

Ã山ǿ¼é the Juror

Louisville artist, curator and gallery director, John Begley (BFA with Distinction, University of New Mexico, 1969; MFA, Indiana University, 1975) currently heads the University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute galleries and leads its Critical and Curatorial Studies program.  The founding director of the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art and an eighteen-year director of the Louisville Visual Art Association, Begley has produced hundreds of exhibitions, including shows that have toured the Midwest and South and internationally to Scotland, Germany, France and Taiwan.

The recipient of the Louis Comfort Tiffany and Getty Museum Management Institute Fellowships, Begley oversaw the growth of the Art Association to a multi-function exhibition, education and advocacy art center. He has also been an active advocate for the visual arts in Louisville, the state and the region. Begley also maintains an active individual studio practice in drawing, printmaking, book arts, installation and intermedia combinations that examine the nature of seeing, making and thinking about the world of art.