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April Issue 2001

Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, Presents Student Art Thesis Exhibitions

Guilford College in Greensboro, NC, is presenting their 2001 Senior Art Thesis Exhibition, which will be on view from Apr. 20 through May 5, in Founders Hall on the Guilford College campus.

This year's exhibiting Bachelor of Fine Arts candidates include: Carol DeVries, from Greensboro, whose mixed media collage involving etching, woodcut prints, calligraphy, and painting explore memory, family history, and place; Katie Elkins from Birmingham, AL, who creates her own personal mythology and brings it to life in large ceramic vessels; Isabel Foley, from Columbus, OH, whose photographs explore isolation and the realm of the subconscious mind; and Liz Saintsing, from Winston-Salem, NC, a printmaker whose images deal with childhood issues of discipline, obedience, and objects from her deceased grandmother's home.

Bachelor of Arts candidates include: Marc Berstein, from Charleston, SC, whose works are highly realistic self-portraits in mixed media ranging from paper to bronze; Alex Gingrow, from Knoxville, TN, whose paintings explore the artist through visual autobiography; Molly Gochman, from Katy, TX, whose fiberglass impregnated hand-dyed fabric sculpture are constructed to make the viewer think about the fabric that is moving with their; Alicia Grogan-Brown, from Tacoma Park, MD, whose paintings attempt to challenge the glorification of certain body types, and raise awareness of body image issues; Sarah Nix, from Atlanta, GA, whose sepia-toned pin-hole camera photographs focus on strange root formations within the Guilford College woods; and Haley Woodward, from Swarthmore, PA, who describes his steel sculptures as "pain from the brain."

Founded in 1837 by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), Guilford College is the third oldest coeducational college in the country. In the 2000 edition of the Fiske Guide to College, Guilford is the only private college in North Carolina and one of only 20 in the country to be rated a "Best Buy". Guilford was featured as one of only 40 colleges in Colleges That Change Lives, by Loren Pope, former New York Times education editor. Recognized by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching as one of the top four-year, liberal arts colleges in the US, Guilford has 33 academic majors and 35 interdisciplinary concentrations. The 340-acre campus is home to 1,300 full-and part-time students.

For further info call Elizabeth Corle, Public Affairs, at 336/316-2335.

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