Trinity Western University’s second annual Festival of the Arts, Media and Culture showcased an abundance of student art across multiple venues. On Thursday, March 31, the senior art students hosted a well-attended opening reception of their show, A Parade Marching Backwards in Time, at the Langley Centennial Museum in Fort Langley. One student, Daniel Giesbrecht, who drew inspiration from Yi-fu Tuan’s book, Landscapes of Fear, produced a series of paintings depicting the Black Plague, floods and urban conflict and uprising. The exhibit – which includes paintings, photographs, sculptures and interactive installations – is on display at the Centennial Museum in Fort Langley until April 30, 2011.
New this year was the inaugural exhibition of the newly established President’s Gallery. The juried exhibition of New Student Work showcased the visual accomplishments of a talented and promising group of first- second- and third-year students. For TWU President, Jonathan S. Raymond, Ph.D., the show was the culmination of a long-held desire to create a venue for showcasing the artwork of students, faculty and invited artists on campus.
On his first visit to TWU, before being appointed President, Dr. Raymond toured the grounds, taking in the atmosphere of the University. Knowing that an art gallery gives one a glimpse of “the soul of a community,” he sought it out and was dismayed that there was no gallery on campus. Now five years later, the President’s Gallery exhibition represents a vision successfully come to fruition.
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