‘Open/Close’ Marks Apex of Senior’s Art
Eight graduating art majors will offer their capstone art projects, which span oil painting, photography, serigraphy, sculpture, assemblages, and digital painting from April 4-May 4 at the Westmont Ridley-Tree Museum of Art. A free, public opening reception for “OPEN/CLOSE: Westmont Graduate Exhibition” is Thursday, April 4 from 4-6 pm at the museum.
“I am most looking forward to seeing the culmination of all the hard work that the eight seniors have been investing in their new bodies of artwork finally displayed in the museum,” says Meagan Stirling, assistant professor of art. “It has been a wonderful opportunity to walk alongside them as they investigate themes of identity, self, friendship and the purely formal qualities of art. They are a tenacious and inspiring group of seniors.”
The artists include Madison Cowan, Madeline Kilpatrick, Lauren Koo, Marissa Lin, Bianca Moser, David Peterson, Isabel Sheehan, and Amanda Zhang.
The museum is open Monday through Friday from 10 am to 4 pm and 11 am to 5 pm on Saturdays. It is closed Sundays and college holidays. For more information, please visit www.westmontmuseum.org or contact the museum at (805) 565-6162.
Choir of New College Oxford Sings in SB
One of the most highly regarded choral groups in the United Kingdom performs in Santa Barbara as part of a unique local partnership. The Choir of New College Oxford, first established in 1379, will perform Wednesday, April 10, at 7 pm at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1500 State Street. Tickets, which cost $20 for general admission, $10 for students, may be purchased online (westmont.edu/oxfordconcert) or at the door (pending availability). The concert, which features a pipe organ from 1965, will last 90 minutes with a brief intermission. The event is sponsored by Westmont, Trinity Episcopal Church, Community Arts Music Association, and The American Guild of Organists.
The choir includes 15 boy choristers and 13 adult clerks, who are professional singers and/or undergraduate members of the college.
“To bring an English men-and-boy choir of such distinction to Santa Barbara is a rare opportunity for the community,” says Grey Brothers, Westmont music professor and minister of choral and congregational music at Trinity Episcopal Church. “With its stunning visual and acoustical space, Trinity Episcopal is the ideal venue for the evening concert.”
The choir will also perform earlier in the day at Westmont chapel at 10:30 am in Murchison Gym. “The primary purpose of this choir is singing Evensong in the college chapel in Oxford multiple times each week,” says Michael Shasberger, Adams professor of music and worship. “Few Westmont students have experienced this tradition of worship that has been at New College for more than six hundred years.”
