CUSHING-MARTIN GALLERY PRESENTS ALUMNI HIGHLIGHTS

Stonehill’s Cushing-Martin Gallery presents Alumni Highlights, an exhibition featuring work by three alumni from the College’s Fine Arts Department. The exhibit will be on view from January 14 to February 19, 2008, and is free and open to the public.

The exhibit will showcase work in a variety of media by Andrea Croak ’02, Cara Janczunski ’03, and Kelvin Ramirez ’01. A gallery talk and reception for the artists will take place on Wednesday, January 23rd, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. This event is also free and open to the public. 

Andrea Croak graduated from Stonehill with a B.A. in Fine Arts and Elementary Education, and is currently working towards a Certificate in Fashion Design from the Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Her artists' books display a love of the hand-held. She masterfully combines several types of materials with different layering techniques, such as fabric, images, machine sewing, knitting, and book binding, inviting the viewer to open, touch, look, and turn the page.

Cara Janczunski graduated from Stonehill with a B.A. in Fine Arts and Psychology and earned an M.A. in Art Therapy and Mental Health Counseling from Lesley University in 2005. She is a practicing art therapist for the Community of Bristol County, Pathways Day Treatment/Partial Hospital Program in Taunton, Mass.

Janczunski will exhibit "Cemetery Culture: Silent Lives,” showcasing a series of her photographs documenting the mementoes that loved ones leave at gravesites. She will also exhibit “Resurface,” a series of structural cubes that revisit and connect past and present experiences of self-discovery and healing.

Kelvin Ramirez received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Stonehill and an M.A. in Art Therapy and Counseling in 2006 from the College of New Rochelle. He is currently the vice principal for student affairs at All Hallows High School in the Bronx, NY.

Ramirez will exhibit a series of paintings in which he reconciles his identity as an immigrant from the Dominican Republic and an active participant in American culture. He will also display a group of photographs from Peru and Cuba which give evidence to human suffering, while also creating an awareness of the realities of the human family -- hope, fear, and hardship.

The Cushing-Martin Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. For directions to the Gallery, please visit here. Gallery parking is located in Lot #2.

For press photos or for more information about the Cushing-Martin Gallery, this exhibition, or the artist, please contact Gallery Director Candice Smith Corby: csmithcorby@stonehill.edu, or by phone at 508-565-1897.

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