Upcoming Exhibits

Jumping off the Walls: Student Art Show

March 29, 2012 – 3:46 pm

For well over two decades, Jump-Start Performance Co.’s Arts Education Program has been working with predominately Mexican-American and-African American youth in low-income urban areas, bringing visual, literary & performing arts to about 8,500 students, educators, parents and local residents every year.

Jumping off the Walls
Student Art Show

Opening receptions:
Thursday, April 5, 2012 | 6 -8 p.m.
First Friday*, April 6, 2012 | 6 – 9 p.m.

*Bring your family and come participate in fun art activities led by Jump-Start’s educators as well as pose for fabulous creative photos taken by GlamMugs! Light refreshments will also be served.

Jumping off the Walls features artwork from our students at Bonham Academy, Douglass Elementary, Forbes Elementary, Kelly Elementary, Japhet Elementary, Austin Elementary, Fairweather Lodge, Calderon Westside Boys & Girls Club, and Seton Home for Girls.

The walls of the Jump-Start Art Gallery will come to life with student-created recycled book art, crazy yarn art, fun origami, wild papier-mâché art, colorful Keith Haring inspired transparency art and much more!

FREE. Donations will be graciously accepted for participation in the First Friday art activities. GlamMugs prints will also be for sale for $5. Cash only!

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Jump-Start Art Gallery

May 3, 2010 – 12:40 pm

Now showing!

Debangana Banerjee

Opening reception:
Thursday, May 3, 2012 | 6 – 8 p.m.

On display through May 25, 2012

About the artist:

Debangana Banerjee was born and raised in Santiniketan, West Bengal, India. Santiniketan being one of the artistic and cultural hubs of the country, Debangana received exposure to different art forms from her childhood. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts in printmaking degree from Visva-Bharati University, Santiniketan, in 2005.
Debangana worked as a national scholar in India before joining at Louisiana State University, in 2007 for her MFA. She also worked as a visual designer in Communication across the Curriculum at LSU. Debangana has participated in many solo and group exhibitions including exhibitions in Indian, Japan, Australia, England and the United States. She has published several articles in leading Indian dailies and two of her artist’s books were published in art fairs in 1998 and 1999 in India. Recently six of her translated poems were published in Toad Suck Review, 2012. Debangana taught art classes to disabled and disadvantaged children and youths in India and was an active volunteer in social services in various organizations in India and the United States, including Loan Closet (under IHF at LSU) and LSU Union Art Gallery. She received her second Master of Fine Arts in printmaking from Louisiana State University in August 2010. Presently Debangana is a board member of the San Marcos Area Arts Council, San Marcos, Texas and volunteering at Wittliff Collections, Alkek Library, Texas State University-San Marcos, Texas. She recently (Jan – March, 2012) co-curated an art exhibition “Shilpa: Colors of India-Pakistan-Bangladesh” at Walker’s Gallery, San Marcos, Texas.

 

 

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