‘Year of Media’ Art Exhibit at Penn’s Graduate Student Center by University of Pennsylvania

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University of Pennsylvania graduate students Ran Liu of the School of Arts & Sciences and Jonathan Brooks of the Graduate School of Education are among those who recently visited the spring 2017 exhibition in the Graduate Student Center’s Welfer Common Room.

The intimate exhibit centers around the ideas and concepts related to the Provost’s academic theme year for 2016-17, the Year of Media. It includes photographs, drawings and paintings on display.

“It’s a very relevant theme, given the talk about media and the political events over the past year,” says Monica King, a demography Ph.D. candidate who is slated to graduate in August and who works as the GSC’s Arts and Recreational Activities Fellow.

“Media is a vital part of human society and shapes our experiences. Along with technology, media has evolved dramatically through history,” King says.

While co-curating the art exhibit, King was impressed by the quality of submissions from Penn’s graduate students, even the ones who aren’t studying art. She says this is an opportunity for them to display their talents among their peers.

“We’re seeing that art is another way for students to find commonalities across disciplines and that is certainly reflected in the diverse group of artists whose works we’ve selected to display,” King says.

This year’s exhibition includes work by grad students representing six of Penn’s 12 schools: the School of Design, Law School, School of Engineering & Applied Science, Perelman School of Medicine, School of Arts & Sciences and Wharton School.

The exhibition, which runs through the end of the spring semester, is free and open to all graduate students and their guests.

It is supported by the Year of Media grant at Penn:
www.nso.upenn.edu/theme-year/theme-year-2016-year-media/y…