ESU Presents Senior Seminar and Portfolio in Art Student Exhibition, April 20-May 4

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The Madelon Powers Gallery of East Stroudsburg University will feature art works and portfolios of selected students in a Senior Seminar and Portfolio in Art Student Exhibition April 20-May 4.

The exhibition will include works that students produced for various clients as part of the art+ design department’s student design agency, New Mind Design, and comic art created at recent Comic Thons.

Hours for the gallery, located in the university’s Fine & Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, are 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays, and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays.

A reception for the artists will be held Wednesday, April 20 from 4-6 p.m. in the gallery. Both the exhibit and reception are open to the public at no cost.

At the reception, the 2016 Excellence in the Arts awards will be presented. The art+ design department will also present the Dr. Irene Mitchel ‘Three Sisters Endowed Art Scholarship’ in memory of Helen Mitchel Stetz and Mary Mitchel Kurello, and the Cecilia S. Cohen Award for Excellence in Art History.

The exhibit will feature portfolios by eight senior art + design students including: Brenadette Acuria of Great Meadows, N.J.; Tyler Creighton of Ferndale, Pa.; Christy Flynn of Hawley, Pa.; Jared Keller of Reading, Pa.; Cameron Maher of Chester Springs, Pa.; Ryan Scardecchio of Broomall, Pa.; Christian Torres of Long Pond, Pa. and Zhane Warner-Duncan of East Stroudsburg, Pa.

Ashe Pope, a junior from Harrisburg, Pa., majoring in integrated art+ design is also part of the exhibit.

Sarah Shiner, a senior from Lehighton, Pa. with a double major in art+design and business management will be exhibiting a portfolio and a capstone and independent study project.

Other students who will be exhibiting capstone or independent study projects include: Evelyn Barone, a senior from Brodheadsville, Pa. majoring in biology with a minor in studio art; Alexandra Paino, a senior from Milford, Pa., majoring in psychology with a minor in studio art; Pitman Swen, a senior from East Stroudsburg, Pa. majoring in biology with a minor in studio art; Sarah Poore, a senior from Allentown, Pa. majoring in art + design; Sam Tabshi, a junior from Allentown, Pa. majoring in integrated art + design; and Morgan Weissbach, a junior from Saylorsburg, Pa., majoring in both art + design and fine arts.

For more information on the exhibit or reception, contact esuarts.esu.edu or 570-422-3483.