Algoma University's Visual Arts Grads exhibit their work

NEWS RELEASE
SAULT STE. MARIE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
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Tonight at Rolling Pictures ART X REVIVE - a Group Exhibition of Current and Recent Algoma University Visual Art Graduates - opens. Refreshments will be available, and admission is free although donations that go directly to the artists are appreciated. Most works will also be for sale. The show opening is June 2 and 3rd from 6 to 9:30pm at 498 Queen Street East using the Spring Street entrance.

Revive brings together work by 8 Algoma University Visual Art students and alumni. The ART X PROJECT is an on-going, interdisciplinary Arts & Culture exhibition located at the Rolling Picture’s downtown facility at 498 Queen Street East in Sault Ste Marie and hosted by Community Relations Director Robert Peace.

“Over the past two years our year-end thesis solo exhibitions and group exhibitions were moved online, as was the case for Visual Art students around the world, says Andrea Pinheiro, Chair, Department of Music and Visual Arts Chair, Department of Modern Languages 

Algoma University. An in-person exhibition is what we really wanted the students to experience, and this will give them the chance and for the local community to see first hand their work.”

Revive is also a chance to celebrate the work of recent graduates along with the current Thesis Exhibition students, Shemia Nelson and Naghmeh Dadgostar, who are both creating public installations as their thesis projects. 

Desiree Watson, Irene Gray, Hilary Evan, Daryl Wier, Samantha Pine Bennett, and Angeline Castilloux were among the students who missed the chance for an in person public celebration of their culminating thesis projects but will now be able to have their moment.

“We are very happy to be able to facilitate the arts once again in our studio here in Downtown Sault Ste Marie, '' says Rolling Pictures's Director of Community Relations Robert Peace. With COVID-19 restrictions lifted we hope the community will come out and support the arts in full force.”

In describing her work artist Angeline Castilloux says, “I feel that the small, seemingly insignificant things often overlooked are the most interesting and unique subjects. There is beauty all around us hidden by the overwhelming chaos we are regularly exposed to.”

"The artists in Revive display a wide range of creative approaches and ingenuity to realize their work within the constraints of the past couple of years, '' says Pinheiro. We are really excited to get back into our amazing studios full time where students will be able to access a wide range of tools and equipment and more easily access technical support for their work."

Curator and local artist Annie King who has been involved with ART X since its inception is encouraged with the talent on display in the show. "Art making has an inherent capacity to foster community, and there is something special about the close knit group that creates together at Algoma University, '' says King. Each artist's work is unique yet there are subtle overlaps in their concerns and ways of highlighting that which is meaningful to each of them in imagining a more hopeful future."

For more information please people can email Robert Peace at robert@rollingpictureco.com

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