Texas Tech Art Students Show Work in Senior Studio BFA Group Exhibition

Texas Tech University’s School of Art will present the advanced studio work from this year’s graduating seniors in the Senior Studio BFA Group Exhibition. A special reception for the exhibit will follow the School of Art’s open house celebration on First Friday, from noon-4 p.m. on March 5. The exhibition will be on display from Feb. 27-March 12, in the Landmark Arts Studio Gallery. All events and exhibits are free and open to the public. The Senior Studio BFA Group Exhibition features work in all media ranging from ceramics, jewelry design and metalsmithing, painting and drawing, photography, printmaking and sculpture. Students showing their work includes: Megan Dill, Robin Durrett, Shannon Higginbotham, Lowell Merkling, Rachel Ringlehan, Jessica Rivera, Jessica Sailors, Lauren Scully, Nicole Brauer, Joseph Smith, Ryan Borg, Jason Cooper, Rachel Heimerman, Naomi Hill, Lauren Holden, Amanda Marchall, Ryan McDaniel, Mallory McDowell, Mary Mecca, Katharine Powell, Fernando Rivas, Dustin Simms, Rachel Stroman, Michael Synatzske, Seth Teeters and Stephanie Valenzuela. The Art Building is located at 2802 18th Street (near the corner of 18th Street and Flint Avenue, just east of the Architecture Building on the Texas Tech campus). On Mondays through Fridays, visitor parking is available for $1.20 per hour in the small lot adjacent to the Art Building and on the fourth floor of the Flint Avenue Parking Garage. Parking is free on weekends. Gallery hours are 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Saturdays and noon-4 p.m. Sundays. The galleries are closed on university holidays. Art exhibition programs and speakers at the Texas Tech University School of Art are made possible, in part, by generous grants from the Helen Jones Foundation and The CH Foundation. Additional support comes from cultural activities fees administered through the College of Visual and Performing Arts. Presented by Landmark Arts. For more information, visit www.landmarkarts.org.