Student Art Exhibition

MAY IS STUDENT ART MONTH

 AT THE PALOS VERDES ART CENTER

The Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education proudly presents three student art exhibitions. The culmination of this year’s student art from Art At Your Fingertips, Partners In Art and The Best of High School Art will be exhibited May 4 through May 27, 2012 at the Art Center’s temporary location, Promenade on the Peninsula, 550 Deep Valley Drive, Suite 261, Rolling Hills Estates. Members’ opening reception is set for Friday, May 4, 2012, 5:00 – 7:00pm.  Gallery hours are Mondays through Saturdays, 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. and Sundays 1-4pm.

Palos Verdes Art Center offers standards-based art education for more than 7,000 Peninsula students each year. Now in its 37th year, Art At Your Fingertips docents teach elementary school students through five creative projects. Projects are aligned with California Visual and Performing Arts Standards, incorporating artistic perception, creative expression, historical and cultural context and aesthetic valuing. The five projects taught in the 2011-2012 school year included: “Mexican Tinwork Tiles”, “Larger Than Life”, “Dappled Sunlight”, “Imagining Magritte”, and Peninsula en Plein Air”

The Palos Verdes Art Center partnered with the Palos Verdes Unified School District as the schools implemented California arts education standards, which resulted with a dynamic program - Partners In Art - offered by the Palos Verdes Art Center to sixth-grade students. Partners In Art brings sixth-graders, from all three public intermediate school locations, to the Art Center for exhibition tours and provides three classroom visits by an artist who teaches a related art project. This year the students toured the, Off The Wall, Installations and 3 Artists, 3 Perspectives Exhibitions. Related projects produced by the students included, “Fusion Illusion”, “Every House Has a Story”, and “Palimpsests”.

The Best of High School Art Exhibition will feature art work from Peninsula High School, Palos Verdes High School and Rancho del Mar High School. The best of the best in ceramics, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography and glass will be exhibited. Awards presentation is set for May 4, during the opening reception. 

            The Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education, a non-profit community organization celebrating its 81st anniversary, has provided the South Bay with visual arts education, exhibition and outreach programming since 1931. For more information on all Palos Verdes Art Center activities or events, or to become an Art Center Member call            (310) 541-2479 or visit: www.pvartcenter.org