FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

ANNUAL JURIED STUDENT ART EXHIBITION OPENS AT LMU'S LABAND ART GALLERY

April 16, 2004 - The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition opens at Loyola Marymount University's Laband Art Gallery on April 29, and will run through Commencement Day, May 8. The reception for the exhibition will take place from 5:30 to 7 pm, Thursday, April 29, in the George V. Dunning courtyard, near the Laband entrance. The university community and general public are invited, and the event is free of charge. Refreshments will be served.

Student artwork in all mediums including ceramic, photography, design, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, painting, jewelry, computer graphics and interactive computer media will be on exhibit.

Jurors for the 2004 exhibition are Noel Korten, director of the Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, and Christian Mounger, A Los Angeles artist and instructor at the Otis College of Art and Design, Westchester. Cash prizes will be awarded by the jurors, and include prizes from the Metal Arts Society of Southern California Award for outstanding achievement in jewelry and the Grace Swanson Award for painting, selected by Ms. Swanson. The Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition is sponsored by Andrea Kingaard Friedman (Marymount College '66) and Albert Friedman.

The gallery will have special weekday hours for this exhibition: April 29, 5:30 - 7 pm; thereafter, hours will be from 11 am to 3 pm, Tuesday - Friday. Saturday hours (May 1 and 8) are 12:30 - 3:30 pm.

For further information, contact Gordon Fuglie, director, Laband Gallery, at 310.338.2880, or email gfuglie@lmu.edu.

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