May 1, 2000
For Immediate Release
Contact: Peter Bailley
Art Works on Display at Knox College
Paintings, drawings, sculpture and other works by Knox College students will be displayed from Friday, May 12, through Wednesday, May 24, in the Gallery of Ford Center for the Fine Arts, in the Thirtieth Annual Albert C. Young Exhibition and Competition. The exhibit on the Knox campus in Galesburg, Illinois, is free and open to the public.
The judge for the show, Gabriel Laderman, former chair of the art department at Queens College in New York, will give a free, public presentation on his work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 11, in the Round Room. Awards will be announced at 4:00 p.m. Friday, May 12.
Laderman has served as a visiting critic and lecturer at more than 100 university art departments in the U.S. and internationally. He is represented by the Tatistcheff Gallery in New York.
Over $2,000 in prizes will be awarded in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. First prizes are purchase awards and become part of Knox's permanent collection of alumni art. The competition awards are made possible largely through the gifts from the late Albert C. Young and his family, with additional support from Knox alumni Beverly Bender, James Campbell and Marie Maltby Gunther.
Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,200 students from 45 states and 41 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.
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