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PHOTO: Postcard design winner “Rainy Day Blues,” by Frederica Shorey. (Submitted photo)
AUGUSTA — The UMA Virtual 2021 Student Art Exhibition_ _is now live on the Charles Danforth Gallery website, www.danforth.uma.edu/”>danforth.UMA.edu. ‘
The exibition features 70 artworks by 40 UMA students and was juried by UMA art faculty, with awards chosen by Bethany Engstrom, associate curator at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art and lecturer at UMA.
The Student Art Exhibition offers UMA students the opportunity and encouragement to exhibit their work in a professional setting, and to explore the work of their peers across courses and terms that they might not otherwise see. Most of all, the exhibition highlights and celebrates the work of UMA students completed during their coursework in the Art department. Usually an annual exhibition, last year’s show was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic, making this year’s exhibition an eagerly anticipated event, organizers said.
“The art department is enormously proud of what our students have achieved,” saidAmy Rahn, Danforth Gallery director and UMA assistant professor of art history. “This has been a challenging year, yet our students have risen to the occasion. Their creativity and determination are clearly visible in the virtual exhibition.”
This year’s exhibition also includes a postcard design contest administered by Danforth Gallery intern Becky Pass. The winning postcard design contest was Frederica Shorey’s acrylic painting “Rainy Day Blues.”
