Campus Exhibition to Feature Work of Young Digital Artists

An upcoming campus art exhibition will showcase graphic design, animation, games and other digital artwork created by local school students participating in the annual TeleCommunity Summer Studio program.

Affiliated with the McAnulty College and Graduate School of Liberal Arts, TeleCommunity is a no-cost arts outreach program for young artists ages 10-18.

This year’s theme, NewsToons, challenged participants to recreate and interpret events taken from news headlines. Students took actual news stories and enhanced them with exaggerated effects and through techniques influenced by political cartoons, anime and storyboards.

The students’ work will be on display in the first-floor lobby of College Hall from Wednesday, July 18, to Friday, July 20, from 12:30 to 4 p.m. Members of the TeleCommunity Summer Studio will be at the exhibit on Friday, July 20, at 2 p.m., to act as docents, explaining for visitors the works on view as well as the techniques and tools used to create them.

While the TeleCommunity collective meets year-round on Saturdays for multimedia lab work, the two-week summer intensive program provides participants an opportunity to prepare artwork for display and participate in the installation and gallery process.

For more information, email Robert Dunn, director of TeleCommunity.