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Messiah College presents Durham Press: "Hand in Hand" art exhibit at Aughinbaugh Art Gallery

GRANTHAM, Pa. (Sept. 22, 2005) — Messiah College’s art gallery presents the art exhibit Durham Press: “Hand in Hand” in celebration of Kim S. Phipps as the college’s eighth president. The exhibit presents a variety of screen prints and photographic screen prints from eight distinguished artists. It will open Oct. 14 and is located in the M. Louise Aughinbaugh Art Gallery of the Climenhaga Fine Arts Center. The artists featured will lead an artist’s talk on Nov. 18 from 6 to 7 p.m., followed by a reception from 7 to 8 p.m. Both will take place in the gallery. Admission to the exhibit is free and open to the public. For more information, call the Department of Visual Arts at (717)766-2511, extension 2486.

Artists included in the show are Ray Charles White, Robert Harms, Scott Kilgour, James Nares and Roland Fisher, among others. The artists work with a wide range of subject matter, media and orientation. From photography to silk screening, the media is used as a tool to create an image that best articulates each artist’s language. The prints become a unique expression of the artist’s work and offer something different than what they typically produce.

Durham Press is a fine art publisher of contemporary prints, multiples and sculpture, in association with prominent artists from around the world. Each year, owners Jean-Paul Russell and Ann Marshall invite artists to live and work at the Press while they create original prints and multiples. The Press dedicates itself to giving artists the technical support and attention needed to create significant works of art in the form of a print.

About the Aughinbaugh Art Gallery

Located on the lower level of the Climenhaga Fine Arts Center on Messiah College’s Grantham campus, the M. Louise Aughinbaugh Art Gallery exhibits the work of internationally recognized artists from around the world, as well as faculty and students. The gallery features new exhibitions on a monthly basis ranging from traditional studio areas and the fine crafts, to conceptual art and installation. Gallery programming supplements campus classroom instruction by bringing practicing artists to campus to demonstrate techniques in classes and by organizing special evening lectures and afternoon gallery talks. The gallery also functions as a hands-on teaching laboratory for students in the college’s course on museum studies. The Aughinbaugh Art Gallery is open Mondays through Thursdays, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.; on Fridays from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.; and on Saturdays and Sundays from 2 to 5 p.m. The gallery will be closed from Oct. 20 to Oct. 23 for the college’s fall recess.

 About Messiah College

Messiah College, a private Christian college of the liberal and applied arts and sciences, enrolls more than 2,900 undergraduate students in 50 majors. Established in 1909, the primary campus is located in Grantham, Pa., near the state capital of Harrisburg. A satellite campus affiliated with Temple University is located in Philadelphia.

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ARTICLE DATE: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 2005
ARTICLE NUMBER: MC-100-05