Campus Gate Art Gallery - Young Harris College

CAMPUS GATE ART GALLERY
at Young Harris College
5149 College Street | Young Harris, Georgia

Gallery Hours:
Monday - Friday
9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

Contact Information:
(706) 379-5256
campusgate@yhc.edu

Opening Night Reception on Thursday, April 15
7 p.m., Campus Gate Art Gallery
Free admission

All Young Harris College students are eligible to submit artwork created while enrolled in classes at the College to be juried for awards. The student artist awarded Best of Show will receive $300, while second and third prize winners will receive $100. Works created by students outside of classes may be included in the exhibit but will not be considered for awards.

The juror for the show is Clint Samples, assistant professor of art at the University of West Georgia, who will give a presentation about his work at the College on Monday, April 12, at 1 p.m.

Samples earned his M.F.A. from Florida State University and his B.F.A. in painting and B.A. in art education from the University of West Georgia. Samples is currently the art department's foundations coordinator for freshmen students at University of West Georgia, where he teaches courses in design, watercolor painting and digital media for artists. Sample's artwork has been accepted to numerous juried exhibitions both regionally and nationally and he has won awards at each level.

Opening Night Reception on Thursday, March 4
7 p.m., Campus Gate Art Gallery
Free admission

The 'Alice Hirt Memorial Art Exhibition' featuring artist Mike McFalls consists of a series of sculptures that explore the idea of beauty as it pertains to the changing contemporary landscape.

McFalls' sculptures have been on display in numerous solo, group and juried exhibitions across the U.S. With an inventor's sensibility, the artist strives toward creative innovation while staying mindful of historical tradition and methods. His sculptures have developed organically over the last several years as an investigation of phenomenon and its relationship to mundane objects extrapolated from their natural surroundings and manipulated into other forms.

McFalls earned his B.F.A. from Ohio's Columbus College of Art and Design and his M.F.A. from the University of California at Davis. He currently resides in Columbus, Ga., where he serves as assistant professor of art in sculpture at Columbus State University.

January 21 - February 26, 2010

Opening Night Events on Thursday, January 21
Live Performance, 7 p.m, Dobbs Theatre
Reception, 8 p.m., Campus Gate Art Gallery
Free admission

"Fossil Fools" is a combined set of installations and performances about the past and future of fossil fuels and energy resources. The work is a mixture of video, sound and performance.

"Fossil Fools" consists of a group of collaborative artists, featuring Kristen Baumlier, a multimedia and performance artist who teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art; Tom Hansell, a documentary filmmaker who works at Appalshop, a media arts center in Whitesburg, Ky.; and Brian Harnetty, a sound artist and composer from Columbus, Ohio.

The exhibit has been featured recently at Berea College in Kentucky, University of Northern Iowa, the Select Media Festival in Chicago and the Athens Film Festival in Athens, Ohio.