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Opening Reception: Woodland Community College Student Showcase
June 2, 2023 @ 5:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Now showing Woodland Community College Student Showcase, featuring a group exhibition of the WCC Kingsley Merit Scholarship finalists along with the work of students from the Woodland Community College art program.
The student artists and their professor, Manuel Fernando Rios, will be attending the opening reception, 5:30-8:00 pm, coinciding with the downtown Woodland First Friday event. Light refreshments will be available. An award presentation for the artists will begin at 6:30 p.m.
Each year Sacramento’s Kingsley Art Club sponsors an awards program to support emerging art students from community colleges in the Sacramento region. The visual arts faculty at each of the colleges selects one outstanding student to be recognized and receive the $600 monetary award.
Selected as the 2023 scholarship merit award winner from Woodland Community College is Daniel Zapata-Kraft for his painting, Seed of Evil, currently on exhibit at the Crocker Art Museum.
Five students applied for the Kingsley Merit award: A. A.,Carol Butzbach, Andres Marquez, Joey Sable, and Daniel Zapata-Kraft. The Gallery 625 exhibition will feature the work of these five students, along with the art work of Maria Del Carmen Reyes Fabian, Ridley Silva, Acacia Sisneros, Gricelda Vargas, and Kaitlyn Wright, all students in the WCC art department.
Manuel Fernando Rios, the college’s first full time art professor in over a decade, said, “Adding WCC to the Kingsley Merit Scholarship Awards was one of my top priorities when I was hired, along with finding additional opportunities for students to showcase their work to cultivate and help grow the art community in Woodland.” According to Rios, “Having students exhibit their work at venues such as Gallery 625 is one of the most rewarding feelings an art professor can have.”
The artwork can also be viewed online at yoloarts.org/online-galleries.
The Woodland Community College Student Showcase continues at Gallery 625 through August 1, 2023.
Gallery 625 hosts exhibitions and receptions every other month. New exhibitions typically open on the first Fridays of February, April, June, August, October, and December.
Gallery 625 is located at 625 Court Street in Woodland, in Yolo County’s Erwin Meier Administration building and is open Monday – Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m. For more information, contact YoloArts at 530-309-6464.
Image Credits:
A.A., Peace for an Everlasting Future, Print on Archival Paper, 2023, 8 x 10 inches