#96-04-19
For Release: 4/25/97
Contact: Peter Bailley

Knox College will present a student art show, the 27th Annual Albert Young Exhibition and Competition, from May 9 through May 23 in the Ford Center for the Fine Arts, Knox College. More than $2,000 in prizes will be awarded at the opening of the show at 4 p.m., Friday, May 9. The show will feature student works in painting, drawing, printmaking, photography, sculpture and ceramics. The exhibit is open daily, free to the public.

The judge for this year's show is Gail Kendall, professor of ceramics at the University of Nebraska. She will give a presentation about her work at 7:30 p.m., Thursday, May 8, in the Round Room, Ford Center for the Fine Arts.

The show is one of the richest undergraduate art competitions in the nation. The prize fund is endowed by gifts from friends and relatives of Albert C. Young, a 1969 Knox graduate who lived in Belleville, Illinois. Young, who died in 1993, had supported the show since his student days. Many of the prizes are named in memory of his parents, Albert and Anna Young.

Founded in 1837, Knox is an independent, four-year, liberal arts college, located in Galesburg, Illinois, with 1,100 students from 42 states and 33 nations. Knox's "Old Main," a National Historic Landmark, is the only building remaining from the 1858 Lincoln-Douglas debates.