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Hot art at Gallery Walk Show
By Rosa Fonseca
Whalesong Staff
Entering the art
lab these days, we see a huge variety of colors and creative ideas
going on, as students get ready for the 21st Annual Gallery Walk
Show at Baranof Hotel on Friday, Dec. 6, from 4:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Alice Tersteeg’s students will present works of
printmaking, etching, silk-screening, relief prints, and batik.
Other art students are exhibiting their drawings, oil and acrylic
paintings, and ceramics.
At the end of every semester, historically, there has
been a student exhibition at Egan library on campus. This semester,
the decision was to focus on the gallery walk show. Art professor
Jane Terzis said, “Students had to decide which one they wanted
to be in. It makes more sense to have one exhibition for all the
students, and the gallery walk is so much fun. Events were watering
each other down a little bit.”
Terzis talks about the importance of such an event.
According to her, there is a healthy exchange when the community
has a chance to see this art show. “The more we show our work
through the university, the more the community is pulled into it
towards the university as a resource,” she said.
Dianne Anderson, who has a double major in drawing and
painting, is an example of a successful UAS student. She teaches
art education at UAS and in schools in Juneau. She has also been
an art lab assistant for seven years. Anderson emphasizes the importance
of the Gallery Walk for art students, “It’s a launching
pad for a career. You can get your work out there, and people will
come to you, they will buy it, they’ll ask to represent you.
If you never get your work out there these opportunities won’t
happen.”
Anderson has her work on display at Juneau Art Gallery,
in the Senate Building downtown, year round.
“Gallery Walk is a great way to get people to look
at our work and students seem to be really up for it,” said
Terzis. And for the students as an audience, her message is “Come
see, there is some hot art!”
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