Archer Gallery Director Marjorie Hirsch scrambles around her crowded office, shuffling through informational packets. She clearly shows enthusiasm for the next Archer Gallery dialogue.
This exhibition that will exclusively feature all forms of art from Clark Students. The dialogue is titled, The Art Student Annual.
Hirsch is expecting 400 pieces of art to be submitted. All work will be juried by Art Department faculty and 100 to 120 pieces will be selected for the Archer Gallery.
The qualifications to submit art are that students are required to have taken at least one art class from spring 2007 to spring 2008. All work must be work from an art class at Clark.
Students are limited to five pieces of art to enter into the show. Students need to fill out an application that they can pick up at the Archer Gallery or the Art Department office located in the Frost Art Center.
“It’s colorful, it’s vibrant, and there’s work of every kind,” Hirsch says.
The deadline for submitting work is May 6 from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. On May 9 there will be a posted list of all work accepted at the Frost Art Center office and in the Archer Gallery.
“It’s exciting to see what students have completed,” professor Carson Legree says.
Legree says the Art Student Annual is an important event for the department. Hirsch says that entering work into the Art Student Annual is a positive opportunity for students to showcase their work. Submitting work into the Archer Gallery is a first time experience for some of the students who plan on entering their art. Hirsch explained that all the work submitted is a broad representation of art produced through art classes taught at Clark. Some of the submitted art that Hirsh is looking forward to see are photography, painting, drawing, design, metal arts, jewelry and sculpture.
“I’m ready,” Hirsh says. “This is a big show and it will take a lot of coordination.”
Hirsch plans on having students from her art gallery prep class to install the pieces up at Archer Gallery. She says it will take a full three days, even with a professional art installer who will be helping to put the art up.
“This is a learning experience,” Hirsch says.
Art student Drew who refuses to say what his last name is for an artistic purpose, says that he will be involved in installing the art work. Drew’s ultimate goal is to own his own art gallery.
Drew says that some of his work might include designing the area where featured art will be placed. Drew referred to the last galleries he worked at where he had to paint the wall red. Drew is an artist himself and plans on entering in some of his work to be juried.
Hirsch says that before Archer Gallery opens for the Art Student Annual, there will be a special Artists’ Reception on May 13 from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. Hirsch says that it will be the same day that the Phoenix will have a unveiling ceremony and directly afterwards at 4 p.m., everyone will be lead into the Archer Gallery where the Art Student Annual will open for the first time.
“It will be exciting and dramatic,” Hirsch says.
