Join the Johnson Center for the Arts for the Opening Reception in honor of their newest exhibit, "Works by Bill Hill: TroyFest 2011 Best of Show Winner".

The reception will be held Thursday, May 10th from 4:30 until 6:30 p.m. and is hosted by the Troy Arts Council.  The exhibit will be on display until May 25th

Each year the TroyFest Best of Show winner receives a one-month exhibit in the Johnson Center.

The Johnson Center is celebrating Bill Hill's work as the 2011 winner and look forward to celebrating the work of Walter Black next May.

Source:  Johnson Center for the Arts

Fourteen Troy University art majors are showcasing senior theses through May 10 at the Malone Gallery on the Troy Campus.

The senior projects are required for graduation and each reflects the students' personal interpretations of the world around them. The exhibit is free and open to the public daily from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m.

A reception honoring the students will be held at 5 p.m.

Artist Charlotta Janssen, whose paintings pay tribute to the men and women who took part in the Montgomery Bus Boycott and the Freedom Rides, will be featured in an exhibit at Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum starting April 1st.

“Threads of a Story: History Inspiring Art” will be on display in the museum’s exhibit hall through May 28. The exhibit features paintings that recreate the mug shots of people arrested for their participation in the Bus Boycott and Freedom Rides.

Using oil, acrylics, rust and collage, Janssen re-imagines these arrest mug shots as a tribute to those who took part in the civil rights movement. “Threads of a Story” has been displayed at exhibits in New York and at the Nashville Public Library.
 
Janssen was born in Maine to German parents living in the U.S. under the Marshall plan. In 1973 the family moved to Iran, and later fled during the 1979 revolution.