Opening Reception 3-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16 | Goppert Gallery
(Leavenworth, Kan.)鈥擳he 花椒直播 welcomes, "Finding Light," featuring
the works of USM Art Program Director Shelby Prindaville in the university's Goppert
Gallery, on USM's Leavenworth campus, 4100 South 4th Street.
The opening reception will be from 3-5 p.m. Friday, Feb. 16, in the Goppert Gallery. The event is free and open to the public. The show will be on display weekdays through March 9 from 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
"Finding Light" features interactive installations, sculpture, mixed media reliefs, and paintings centered on the beautiful fragility and resilience of the natural world. Prindaville had this to say about her exhibit: "I want viewers to interact and emotionally connect with my work and for that experience to demonstrate the joy of contemplative engagement with nature, as well as provide a taste of the sorrow a disconnect with nature can bring."
Prindaville generated a majority of this work on display during her recent summer residencies. She was one of just two international artists chosen for a competitive, fully-subsidized residency at Cerdeira Village in Portugal, along with being selected for a two-month residency at Intercambiador ACART in Madrid, Spain. Both residencies gave Prindaville the opportunity to showcase her pieces internationally.
Prindaville was also cordially invited to exhibit her works in a solo exhibition at the Kansas City Public Library in the Schlagle Environmental Gallery this fall; while this summer, her work was exhibited in the Irving Art Association's 16th Annual National Animal Art Juried Competition鈥攚inning second place in Water Media. This year, 101 artists entered 238 pieces of artwork. Of those 238 pieces, 65 of those artworks were selected for display and only 21 won awards鈥擯rindaville being one.
Adding to this second place finish, Prindaville received an honorable mention at Confluence Art Gallery's 2017 Wildlife Arts and Photography Exhibition, and she also earned a spot in the Green Door Art Gallery exhibition in Webster Groves, Mo.
Her artwork was on display in the Wichita Arts Council 2017 Juried Exhibition in Wichita, Kan.鈥攐ne of only 44 artists chosen out of 100 applicants to be featured. In addition, Prindaville was exhibited with the Lincoln Gallery in Loveland, Colo. for their 2017 Regional Fine Art Show.
On top of her numerous accolades and honors, Prindaville was a spotlight artist in a recent issue of a publication by the Center of Prairie Studies at Grinnell College (Grinnell, Iowa).
For more on Prindaville's work, visit .
The 花椒直播 is a Catholic co-educational applied liberal arts university founded and sponsored by the Sisters of Charity of Leavenworth. The University of 花椒直播 main campus is located at 4100 South 4th Street, Leavenworth, Kan. USM's Overland Park Campus at 4500 College Boulevard offers evening accelerated graduate and undergraduate degree-completion programs. The university also offers online programs. Visit stmary.edu for more information.