[cid:image001.png@01CEA595.3E8C3810] April 18, 2017 Contact: Shirley Skeel, sskeel@pugetsound.edu ph. 253.879.2611, cell. 510.684.6715 Puget Sound 2017 Senior Art Show April 26-May 13 Opening reception is 5-7 p.m. Wednesday, April 26 TACOMA, Wash. - University of Puget Sound's 2017 Senior Art Show opens Wednesday, April 26, at 5 p.m. An opening reception will be held that night, 5-7 p.m., at Kittredge Gallery and everyone is welcome. This free exhibition is the highlight of the year, showcasing graduating senior art students' thesis work. The artworks on view offer a lively and engaging opportunity to see a variety of pieces by these emerging artists. Each of the 14 students has created a body of work that shows their skills and ideas. The artists are: Molly Agan Gaby Berman Mary Brehove Katharine Etsell Lianna Hamby Lauren Hecker Rory Jacobs Maggie Langford Bryce Monser Owen Putz Olivia Sherman Hailey Shoemaker Morgan Travieso Ethan Ziemba The 2017 Senior Art Show is a celebration of the effort that the students have put in and, in its own way, an exhibition of the present and future of visual art, as interpreted by these young Pacific Northwest artists. The exhibitors worked over the past semester on these projects, doing workshops and critiquing art with their cohort, while strengthening their research, ideas, and methods. They started these investigations in upper division classes, independent studies, and summer research projects. Kittredge Gallery serves as a teaching tool for the Department of Art and Art History, and a cultural resource for both the university and the community at large, exhibiting work by noted regional and national artists. Exhibits and talks are free and open to the public. [cid:image004.jpg@01D2B820.A1BC1D50]Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 27, 5-7 p.m., Kittredge Gallery Gallery Location: University of Puget Sound, N. 15th St. at N. Lawrence St., Tacoma, Wash. Directions and Map: pugetsound.edu/directions<http://www.pugetsound.edu/directions> Regular Hours: Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Saturday, noon-5 p.m. Website: pugetsound.edu/kittredge<http://www.pugetsound.edu/kittredge> Facebook: facebook.com/KittredgeGallery<http://www.facebook.com/KittredgeGallery/> Newsletter: Signup here<http://eepurl.com/bTpku9> For accessibility information please contact accessibility@pugetsound.edu<mailto:accessibility@pugetsound.edu> or 253.879.3931, or visit pugetsound.edu/accessibility<http://www.pugetsound.edu/accessibility> PRESS PHOTOS are available upon request. -0- Visit our "Newsroom" page featuring a searchable index of Puget Sound sources on a wide variety of topics at http://www.pugetsound.edu/about/offices--services/office-of-communications/newsroom/ University of Puget Sound is a 2,600-student, national undergraduate liberal arts college in Tacoma, Wash., drawing students from 47 states and 12 countries. Puget Sound graduates include Rhodes and Fulbright scholars, notables in the arts and culture, entrepreneurs and elected officials, and leaders in business and finance locally and throughout the world. A low student-faculty ratio provides Puget Sound students with personal attention from faculty members who have a strong commitment to teaching and offer 1,200 courses each year in more than 50 traditional and interdisciplinary areas of study. Puget Sound is the only national, independent undergraduate liberal arts college in Western Washington, and one of just five independent colleges in the Northwest granted a charter by Phi Beta Kappa, the nation's most prestigious academic honor society.