GRANTHAM, Pa. (April 20, 2007) — This summer, Messiah College’s Aughinbaugh Art Gallery will display the award-winning artwork of student participants in the Annual Juried Summer Show competition.  The exhibit remains open from May 11 – Sept. 7, showing during regular gallery hours throughout the summer.  The gallery is usually open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. on weekdays.  The exhibition is free and open to the public. The Aughinbaugh Art Gallery is located in the Climenhaga Fine Arts building on the college’s Grantham campus.

Pieces chosen for display are the work of Messiah College students who submitted artwork created over the 2006-2007 academic year to the Annual Juried Summer Show, an artwork competition covering a variety of mediums.  Cash prizes are awarded to the winners in the following categories: 2-D (printmaking, photography, painting and drawing), mixed media (textiles, ceramics, sculpture, furniture, paper) and computer art/graphic design. An outside judge selects prize-winning pieces and awards the prizes at a reception on Sept. 7. For more information on the show, regulations or rules of submission, contact Sherron Biddle at sbiddle@messiah.edu.

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. 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.