(ROCKPORT,TX.)Every year Rockport Center for the Arts hosts a statewide, juried exhibition for undergraduate and graduatestudents emerging in the visual arts.Three winners are awarded cash prizes, $500 for first prize, $300 for second prize, and $200 for third prize. This year the winners will be selected by Rainey Knudson.
Rainey Knudson founded Glasstire, the oldest online-only arts magazine in the country, in 2001. Glasstire is the premiere source of online art criticism for Texas and beyond. Rainey resides in Houston.
For this year’s exhibit the work of thirty-four artists representing sixteen universities across the State of Texas will be shown in the Main Gallery. Exhibition curator, Elena Rodriguez says, “This is easily one of my favorite shows of the year. I love seeing the ingenuity and voices of the next generation of artists. And I hope that they come to see Rockport as the unique artist colony that it is.”
The exhibit opens to the public on Saturday, March 10th with a reception from 5 to 6:30 PM. The show continues through March 31st, 2017.
Admission is always free.
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List of Exhibiting Artists by University
Glassell School of Art
A.M. Schaer
Houston Baptist University
Naomi Rosato
Carry Carter
Beth Cleary
Stephanie Gonzales
Celea Guevara
Crystal Murley
Ian Russey
Fereshteh Solati
Houston Community College
Louisa Tang
Motoko Yasue
Rice University
Erica Cheung
Southwestern University
Elliot Boone
Hayley Donnelly
Sonja Lea
Texas A&M College Station
Sarah Doyle
Texas A&M Corpus Christi
Tana Alexander
Kelly Curtiss
Audrianna Rios
Texas A&M Kingsville
Sarah Jean Ruiz
Texas Christian University
Sierra Forester
Texas State University
Sarah Castilleja
Emily Potts
Texas Tech University, Lubbock
Michael Emerson
Nathan Collins
Callie Murray
Patrick Quarm
Texas Woman’s University
Cidlallin Pam Flores
Trinity University
Deliasofia Zacarias
University of Houston
Jonathan Read
University of Houston Clear Lake
Amy Cortez
Kelly Hornsby
Passion Trenkelbach
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley
Jesus Trevino
ROCKPORT-FULTONHIGH SCHOOL EXHIBITION IN POP UP GALLERY
The month of March is National Youth Art Month, so the High School is having a showcase of work in a pop-up gallery space at the Rockport Center for the Arts.
