After being cancelled due to bad weather back in February, local artists were given a place to shine at KSC’s 100 Mile Radius art show.
The exhibit opened in the Thorne-Sagendorph Art Gallery on Friday, March 28 at 5 p.m. Food and drinks were available to attendees as well.
The show featured submissions from artists who live within a hundred-mile radius from Keene as an effort to showcase the works of local artists.
“We get a variety of submissions,” said senior Emily Russman, an information desk employee at the Thorne. “It’s juried, usually by one or a couple of people, and it’s a great show. We get a lot of cool stuff.”
Russman also explained the general process of jurying for an art show.
“There will usually be hundreds of submissions, lots of people really get interested,” said Russman. “It’s one or two people who have a personal way of selecting work. They might have a theme going on, they might have the motif that they’re going for.”
According to Laura Adams, the Thorne’s collections assistant, around 300 works in total were submitted, but only 55 were selected to be shown.
Miles Warner, the art handler and installer at the Thorne and an art and design lecturer, spoke on the process of setting up and arranging such a varied art show.
“It’s a really wide array of crafts and disciplines and subject matters,” said Warner. “With a show like this, there’s so much work, it’s so different. How do you lay it out, how do you talk about it, how do you put it together, how do you light it, how do you orchestrate everything; it’s a different problem to solve.”
“Working with one or two artists, we can really come in with a plan and put together and move things,” continued Warner. “This is really a different animal.”
The 100 Mile Radius show featured several different artworks in many different media. Among several paintings in different styles, there were also sculptures, quiltwork, photography and more.
Many students said they enjoyed that the art show featured several different artists instead of just one or two.
“I thought the show was really beautiful … it was set up really well,” said senior Jason Hamilton. “The broad range of artists was very nice to see, it was good to see a good range instead of maybe one artist…there was a lot more to see.”
Students in attendance also said that they appreciated the variety in style of all the different works.
“There’s a lot of different opportunities for different styles of art … there’s sculpture pieces and paintings and quilts,” said junior Jamielee Lamarre. “I like seeing all the variety.”
“Lot of breadth of work, there’s a lot of different ranges of color which I appreciate, there’s so many different things,” said senior Ava Hartshorn. “There’s a lot of different ranges in light and dark spaces, lot of texture differences that are really compelling as well.”
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