Young Artists on Display at Oxford Town Hall

The announces the April Gallery of Art exhibit featuring the works of three New Young Artists.  

Beth Ludwig is presently a student at Paier College of Art in Hamden where she majors in photography. She has a passion for travel, and plans to travel around the world using her photography to document what she sees. Currently, Beth is documenting the activities of local bands and musical groups. She says, "In my work I seek to express the energy of the music these groups play." Although the number of pieces of art exhibited here is small, she happy to have the opportunity to show her photographs and some school art projects.

Kathleen Mifflin, a senior at Oxford High School, began this school year knowing that she had to complete the mandatory senior project, also known to Oxford High School students as Capstone. She turned for help to the Oxford Cultural Arts Commission’s mentoring program and was introduced to Jim Warner Oxford Green's Camera Club President, who agreed to be Kathleen’s mentor. The resulting photos were recently exhibited at Oxford High School in conjunction with the school's showing of West Side Story; now that the play has ended she will be part of the New Young Artist exhibit.

Prints of Kathleen’s photos will be for sale at the exhibit and the proceeds will go to support the arts programs at Oxford High School.

Emi Smith is pleased with the response to her art. She won a silver key for drawing in the scholastic competition this year, and was one of the two students awarded with the 2011 CAS award for visual arts. In her work, she seeks to express her own inner dialogues and emotions, but she tries to offer a certain level of ambiguity: each piece is meant to be open to multiple interpretations. Emi gravitates toward the use of charcoal, graphite, and colored pencil, coupled with found objects such as beads, feathers and vintage text that she finds inspiring or beautiful.

The exhibit will be available for viewing at Oxford Town Hall Meeting Room until April 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. on Mondays and Thursdays. Oxford Town Hall is located at 486 Oxford Road, Route 67, Oxford, CT 06478

Oxford Cultural Arts Commission encourages participation in, and promotion, development, acceptance and appreciation of artistic and cultural activities within the town of Oxford.

For more information on Oxford Cultural Arts Commission visit www.oxfordculturalarts.org or find them on Facebook.