4/18/23: UMF Arts Night
6:30-8:00pm
Emery Community Arts Center
Free and open to the public
-6:30pm: Opening Reception: Kelly Gentilo, Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show: An Installation, Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, was required reading in sixth grade of my Catholic middle school and has stuck with me ever since causing a complex relationship between the book, religion, and myself. During the 2022-2023 school year, I took the book and altered many of the pages via drawings and blacked-out passages, among other alterations. The work expanded outward from the altered book to an installation piece involving a soundscape and four carousel horse drawings on the walls to simulate an experience of stepping inside a mysterious carousel. This piece concerns themes of religion, childhood, and the reclamation of a text.
-6:30pm: On view: Primordial Soup: Senior Thesis Exhibition, Primordial Soup features the artwork of UMF senior art majors Elly Bernard, Jett Jordan, Gavyn Moreshead, Ana Rogers and Emma Wallace, and represents the culmination of their capstone research. This multi-media group show includes sculpture, painting, drawing, digital art and animation, and engages themes of entertainment, horror, physical labor, and political agendas. Primordial Soup will be on view in Emery’s Flex Space Gallery from April 6 – May 6, 2023. Emery Community Arts Center is located behind Merrill Hall at 224 Main Street and is open Mon.-Fri. 10 am-6 pm; Sat. 12 pm-6 pm; closed Sundays and holidays. The Division of the Arts sponsors this exhibition.
-6:55pm: Announcement of the Elsie C. Grote Scholarship Award, This competitive scholarship is awarded annually to a “full-time junior or senior female student, of meritorious academic standing, with preference given to those who have exhibited proficiency in one of the creative arts.”
-7:00pm: Original Music at UMF, Current students Shaina Fusco, Soren Hatfield, Tammy Lang, Emily Moore, Gavyn Moreshead, Pyam Morin, Lauren Preis, and Alice Staples will present a wide ranging program of original works created at UMF this year.
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