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Mount
Mercy College to Host Area High School Students for 32nd Annual
High School Art Day
CEDAR
RAPIDS, Iowa (April 24, 2008) – Mount Mercy College will
host the 32nd Annual High School Art Day on Friday, April 25.
The day will feature the work of New York City artist Duane Slick.
Slick will talk about his work with more than 200 area high school
art students.
High School Art Day
will also offer hands-on art workshops for the high school students.
The workshops, which will be taught by Mount Mercy College students,
will include tie-dye, drawing, mono-prints, video, photography,
jewelry, ceramics, and painting.
High School Art Day
is the culminating event of an exhibit in the Janalyn Hanson White
Gallery showcasing artwork by area high school students. High
schools participating in the day include Alburnett, Cedar Rapids
Kennedy, Cedar Rapids Metro, Cedar Rapids Prairie, Cedar Rapids
Washington, Center Point/Urbana, Clear Creek/Amana, Iowa Valley,
Linn-Mar, Marion, Mount Vernon, and Tipton.
Duane Slick
is a professor of painting and printmaking at the Rhode Island
School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island. Slick was born in
Waterloo, Iowa, received a Bachelor’s degree in Art Education
and a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the University of Northern
Iowa in Cedar Falls, and a Masters in Fine Arts degree in painting
from the University of California, Davis. Slick is a member of
the Sauk and Fox Nation of Iowa (Mesquakie) and his mother’s
tribe is the Winnebago Nation of Nebraska (Ho-Chunk). His recent
work involves a series of paintings called Instructions on the
Care and Use of White Space, which comes out of oral histories
from inside the Native American culture. Slick has traveled widely
as a storyteller, performer and lecturer, and has received numerous
awards and honors including a Joan Mitchell Foundation award,
Robert Motherwell Fellowship and a Rockefeller Foundation Travel
grant. His work has been extensively exhibited, notably at the
Nielson Gallery in Boston, the Gregory Lind Gallery in San Francisco,
the Paris Gibson Square Museum in Great Falls, Montana, and the
Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona.
Located in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mount Mercy College is a Catholic College
providing student-focused baccalaureate education in the spirit
of the Sisters of Mercy. For more information about Mount Mercy
College, please visit www.mtmercy.edu.
Contacts:
Stacey Jones, Assistant Director of Marketing
(319) 368-6475, sjones@mtmercy.edu
Molly Altorfer, Director of Communications and Marketing
(319) 368-6475, maltorfer@mtmercy.edu
