Student Art Show
Opening reception and awards ceremony April 17 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
The Taber Art Gallery at Holyoke Community College and the HCC Visual Art Department are presenting the 2025 Student Art Exhibition Thursday, April 17, through May 1, with an opening reception and awards ceremony April 17 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. in the gallery.
The exhibition features artwork created by HCC students from 54 Visual Art classes during the 2024-2025 academic year, including painting, two-dimensional and three-dimensional design, basic drawing, still photography, ceramics, digital imaging and design, figure drawing, animation, digital photography, illustration, motion graphics, printmaking, and typography.
“The exhibition is a reflection of all the artwork done in studio classes this academic year,” said Felice Caivano, chair of the Visual Art Department.
The student art is displayed in the Taber Art Gallery, in display cases outside the HCC Library, along the third-floor corridor of the Fine and Performing Arts Building, and in the Media Arts Center on the third floor of the Campus Center.
Among those students whose work is featured in the exhibition is Ariana Jones, who got an advance tour of the gallery with her two-dimensional design class before the show’s official opening. She contributed two paintings of a luna moth, and a self-portrait sketch.
“It is an incredible experience to see my work next to everybody else's work,” said Jones, a first-year Visual Art major from West Springfield. “It allows me to really reflect on all that I put into it. It's pretty beautiful to have others admire you in that kind of way or at least take in something that you made and observe it and give their own opinion.”
The Taber Art Gallery, located off the lobby of the HCC Library on the second floor of the HCC Donahue Building, is free and open to the public Monday through Thursday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. during regular school sessions.
