Alexandria Campus Fine Art Student Show thru Feb. 26

Please join us in celebrating our Alexandria Campus students who have been accepted into this year’s juried Fine Art Student Show. 

The exhibition is currently on view through Monday, February 26, at the Fine Arts Building on the Alexandria Campus (AFA-102). The show features beautiful artworks that were created in our fine art classes over the past year. 

The reception will be held on Wednesday, February 21, from 5 to 6:30 p.m., with student awards announced at 5:30 p.m.  

Our juror this year is Mary Proenza, an associate professor of art at Marymount University in Arlington, Va. She earned a B.A. in literature at UC Santa Barbara’s College of Creative Studies, an M.F.A. in painting from the New York Studio School, and an M.F.A. in creative writing at The New School. In 2022, with funding from an NEA Arts Project grant, Proenza collaborated with writer Jervey Tervalon to create four linoleum cuts; the prints were featured in a letterpress book published by Michigan’s Kalamazoo Book Arts Center.

Proenza is currently working on a graphic memoir, which has been supported by both a 2022 Mid Atlantic Arts Fellowship at the Virginia Center for Creative Arts and by a 2020 Mednick Fellowship from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges. An illustrated story from the project was published in Rosebud magazine, and Proenza has published written reviews in Art in America and The Brooklyn Rail. Recent exhibitions include “Cladogram” at the Katonah Museum of Art in Katonah, NY, and “One in a Year” at the Painting Center in NYC.

For more information, please contact Stacy Slaten at SSlaten@nvcc.edu.

Submitted by:
Britt Conley, AL-Liberal Arts, BConley@nvcc.edu