Visual Arts
Check out the Exhibits at HCAC!
March 12 - April 23, 2010
 March is Youth Art Month!
Through an ongoing partnership between the Howard County Public School System and the Howard County Arts Council, the annual spring exhibit of student artwork opens on March 12 at the Howard County Center for the Arts in Ellicott City. This year’s Youth Art Month exhibit, titled Transformations, features hundreds of works by students grades K-12 and is on view in Gallery I. The student works featured in Transformations will be divided into three sections- found objects that have been transformed, materials and media that have been transformed, and appropriated master artists’ images and ideas that have been transformed.
In Gallery II, work by HCPSS Alumni is on display in Full Circle: HCPSS Alumni Show featuring work by Matthew Hanson, David Simmons, and Cheryl Smith. Smith works in a variety of mediums  including oils and charcoals to create exquisite depictions of her everyday surroundings. Simmons uses oils to create Impressionist style landscapes that feature urban settings. While Hanson utilizes alternative processes photography to bring a haunting appeal to his photo document of Lithuania.
A free public reception including beverages and snacks, and a 2010 Visual and Performing Arts Summer Camp Preview will be held on Friday, March 26, from 5-7 pm.
At the exhibit reception on March 26, the Howard County Arts Council will present a 2010 Summer Arts Camp Preview. A sampling of Summer Camp teachers will be on-hand leading example activities of puppets, mandala poems and sun-catchers and there will be sample projects from previous years of camp. Staff will be on-site to accept summer camp registrations. HCAC Summer Camp runs June through August 2010 and has visual and performing arts classes for students in grades K-7 (entering Fall 2010).
For more information on exhibits, call HCAC at 410-313-ARTS (2787) or email info@hocoarts.org.
Gallery Hours: Monday - Friday 10AM-8PM; Saturday 10am-4pm; Sunday 12-4pm. Closed most Federal Holidays.
(Photos: Top Right, View of the 2009 Youth Arts Month Exhibit, Identity. Bottom Left, Potts & Callahan by David Simmons)
The exhibits program at the Howard County Center for the Arts was established to enhance the public's appreciation of the visual arts, to provide leadership in the arts by presenting a broad spectrum of visual arts in all media, both traditional and contemporary. Exhibits are free and open to the public. The program showcases the work of local, regional a professional venue to exhibit the work of local and regional artists, and to provideand national artists - emerging and established - working in all media.
Eight to ten exhibits are presented annually. Artists and curators interested in having their work presented are asked to submit images and proposals for consideration. Exhibits are selected and presented in the context of multi-disciplinary, thematic, juried and invitational exhibits. This broad curatorial approach ensures that the program presents diverse artistic viewpoints while meeting the needs of the community.
Interested in exhibiting in the HCCA galleries? Please submit an Exhibit Application:
Exhibit Application - Note: Please label all envelopes with submissions "Attn: Exhibit Application."
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