Alexa Marines has been selected as a featured artist in the Miami University Art Museum 2020 Student Response Exhibition! Marines is a senior at Miami from Orland Park, Illinois. She is majoring in studio art with an art and architecture history minor. “I wanted to attend a university where I could get a well-rounded education outside of the arts, and Miami was able to provide that for me,” said Marines. While at Miami, she is involved in the Visual Arts club. For fun, she enjoys visiting museums, trying new foods, and spending time with her cat.
Marines featured artwork, Don’t Touch, was inspired by “issues related to gender and sexuality,” said Marines. In her future, she aspires to be a museum/gallery curator. Her favorite type of art is contemporary art.
This year’s SRE topic was Circling ‘Round, where students thought about what a circle meant to them and how they might interpret it in art. Nearly 100 submissions were received. 32 works by 58 students were chosen to be featured in the Spring 2020 exhibition. As a juried exhibition, all works were selected through a formal process by a committee.
The exhibition will open Tuesday, January 28 and will remain through alumni weekend, closing on June 13. Voting will be open until April 11, 2020. There will be an artist celebration and award ceremony held on April 14, 2020, from 6 to 8 PM where three works will be awarded prizes totaling over $800. The awards are sponsored by the Art Museum Membership Association.
Come see Alexa Marines’ artwork along with the rest of the student response exhibition, Circling ‘Round, at the Miami University Art Museum!
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