JAMESTOWN, N.Y. — SUNY Jamestown Community College’s annual Juried Student Art and Design Exhibition opens with a reception and awards ceremony at 4 p.m. on April 26 in the Jamestown Campus Week Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
The professionally juried exhibition features works from students at all JCC locations, including painting, drawing and prints, photography, sculpture, ceramics, and digital media. It is scheduled to be on display through May 9 during regular business hours at Weeks Gallery inside the Sheldon Center.
“Any student that has taken an art class at JCC has a unique opportunity to have their work professionally juried, installed, and exhibited in the Weeks Gallery,” said Colin Shaffer, managing director of JCC’s Galleries. “The event provides a valuable learning experience by modeling professionally juried exhibitions and teaching students about the process of preparing, editing, and submitting work.”
This year’s juror, Terry McKelvey, holds a master’s in Fine Arts in Painting from Cornell University. He is a professor of Painting, Drawing, and 2D Design at PennWest University in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, where he has taught since 1998.
McKelvey’s drawings and paintings oscillate between figure-based narratives and observation-based still lifes, interiors, and figures. His solo exhibition at the Octagon Gallery at Patterson Public Library in Westfield opens in January 2025.
For more information about the exhibition and the Galleries at JCC, visit sunyjcc.edu/Galleries.