Healing & Hope: A Thematic Student Juried Exhibition
November 21 – December 13, 2019
Neil Britton Art Gallery in the Hofheimer Library
The Virginia Wesleyan University Art Department and Center for the Study of Religious Freedom hosted a juried exhibition of artwork by high school-aged artists on the theme of “Healing and Hope.” The exhibition features artworks that use the power of creativity as a means of responding to tragedy and fear, with an outlook of healing and hope.
Featuring artworks by over 80 area high school-aged students from 13 different high schools and organizations (Bayside High School, First Colonial High School, Granby High School, Great Bridge High School, Kellam High School, Indian River High School, Maury High School, Ocean Lakes High School, Princess Anne High School, Southampton High School, Teens with a Purpose, The Governor’s School, and Tidewater Collegiate Academy), the exhibition recognizes that artwork by young artists is an act of communication that can be felt and acknowledges that artmaking has a unique ability to allow for expression, discovery, and the possibility for change.
The exhibition is on display in Virginia Wesleyan’s Neil Britton Art Gallery until December 13.
Art itself is meant to stimulate conversation and take on difficult social topics and I can think of no nobler mission for art than that of healing.
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Christopher Stowe
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Marine master gunnery sergeant (retired)
who teaches glassblowing as a means of therapeutic art.
