Houston Area Community College Students Featured in Juried Exhibition
UHCL’s Art Gallery and The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake are once again partnering to exhibit works from the brightest and most creative art students enrolled in Houston area community colleges. Presented at TAACCL and juried by Contemporary Arts Museum Houston curator Dean Daderko, the “12th Houston Area Community College Student Art Exhibition” will be held on exhibit April 15-May 17 at TAACCL, 2000 NASA Parkway, Nassau Bay, Texas. Featuring varied works in both two dimensional and three dimensional media, the exhibition provides a broad scope of artistic themes prevalent among community college students today.
In conjunction with the exhibition, the UHCL Art Gallery and TAACCL are collaborating on two public programs. The first, an opening reception and awards ceremony, is at 6:30-8:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 19. The reception will be preceded by an artists’ talk at 5:30 p.m.
On Wednesday, May 16, Daderko will lead a juror’s luncheon at noon. During this informal talk, a free lunch will be provided to each attendee who RSVPs on Eventbrite by Monday, May 14. Visit http://curatorsluncheon.eventbrite.com to register. Attendees are asked to bring their tickets to the event. Both events will take place at TAACCL, and admission is free.
Current art students of Houston area community colleges are encouraged to participate in the exhibition. To submit work, applicants must first download the call for entries form on the gallery’s website. Applicants are then asked to bring submissions to TAACCL during the following days and times: 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m. Thursday-Friday, April 5-6 and 10:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m., Saturday, April 7. Cash prizes and scholarships will be awarded. Full eligibility requirements are listed online.
Daderko said he was ecstatic to jury the show.
“As a relative newcomer to Texas – I moved here to take a position as curator at Contemporary Arts Museum Houston after years living in Brooklyn and Philadelphia and working primarily as an independent curator – I look forward to getting a glimpse into the artistic practices of students in the local community and to the presentation of those voices,” said Daderko.
Daderko has organized exhibitions worldwide, most recently at Higher Pictures and Larissa Goldston Gallery in New York, and at the Centro Cultural Recoleta in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the Center for Contemporary Art in Vilnius, Lithuania. Daderko is widely published and has taught and lectured at Yale University, Cooper Union, the Centro de Investigaciones Artisticas and M.I.T. Daderko is the recipient of a 2008-09 Curatorial Research Fellowship from the French American Cultural Exchange, and in 2010 was the Curator of the Americas in Residence at the Fonderie Darling in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
For inquires about attending or participating in the exhibition, please contact the Art Gallery by calling 281-283-3311 or by email at artgallery@uhcl.edu.
