CLAY… I love its smell, its sensuous plasticity affording immediacy of expression. Working with clay is symbolic of my close relationship with the earth and connection to nature. The creative process is governed by an intuitive form-based focus using the tactile manipulative quality of clay to express symbolic meaning within each piece. The creation of these pieces may utilize hollow or solid building depending upon the nature of the individual piece. The intent is to use ceramic sculpture in the creation of both contemplative space and the expression of human conditions and concerns. The sculptures are described as nonobjective biomorphic forms. These forms imbue an organic life-like quality to the wall, pedestal, floor, or garden. The variety of themes expressed are based upon an acknowledgement and expression of universal human conditions common in life’s journey. The viewer is free to experience the sculptural forms, always having the freedom of interpretation, contemplation, or to simply enjoy the essence of the organic presence of each piece. My hope is that these pieces will convey a sense of peace, tranquility, and possibly thoughtful deliberation, resulting in a uniquely personal experience for each person.
Alice M. Yutzy, born on October 7, 1948 in Baltimore, MD spent her formative years living in Maryland, North Carolina and Virginia. From an early age Alice had an avid interest in art with drawing as one of her favorite pastimes. Graduating from the University of Maryland, College Park with a B.A. in art education Alice taught art in the public school system for 39 years. The last 24 of those years Alice was very fortunate to teach what she loved: ceramics and sculpture at the high school level. She earned her MFA in studio art with a concentration in ceramics at Towson University in 2007.
Alice lives with her husband Dee on 6 ½ wooded acres in rural southern Maryland. Their 2 grown children, spouses and grandchildren will always be the most important focus and love of their lives. An avid nature and animal lover, Alice enjoys her three cats and riding her lovely horses Thor and Tanner.
Although her primary chosen media is clay, she has also worked in plaster, wood, stone, cast paper, cast cement and lightweight concrete. The primary surface finishes are volcanic ash stain and mixed media non ceramic patinas.
Currently Alice works as a part time professor at the College of Southern Maryland teaching all levels of ceramics. With self-expression as her focus, she continues to evolve and experiment with various techniques, forms and concepts using clay as her primary media.
Title: Dr. Margaret Dowell (2022) and Dr. Nathaniel Carroll (circa 1850's)
Media: Oil on Canvas
Size: 60" x 48"
Year: 2022
'Storm Skyline'
Kaitlin Jencso is a photographer who documents moments of everyday life to communicate intimate and interior experiences. With an eye to cinema, she seeks out beauty in commonplace scenes, focusing on a pop of color, a glimmer of light, a flutter of material. While she captures moments of light and grace, her practice is methodical, the result of diligent shooting and processing to isolate ideas and develop them as themes or installations.
Jencso won the Focal Point award of merit from the Maryland Federation of Art and received a D.C. Commission on the Arts and Humanities fellowship award in 2023. Jencso is a two-time winner of FotoWeek D.C. She served as a Hamiltonian fellow in 2018–2020. She is a graduate of the College of Southern Maryland and received her BFA in fine art photography from the Corcoran College of Art + Design. She lives and works in Washington, D.C.
The Student Juried Show is a selected collection of artworks created by current CSM students. This work showcases a variety of mediums, including painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, and graphic design.
April 15 through May 8
Reception and Awards: April 18 at 2 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
The Walter Grove II Memorial Art Gallery features rotating art works by exceptional CSM students working in visual mediums. Established in 2001, the gallery honors Jane and Walter Grove’s son, Walter B. Grove II, who died in 1999. Grove earned an associate’s degree from CSM with an emphasis in studio art.
The gallery is located in the Fine Arts Center (FA Building) on the La Plata Campus and is open Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
See the work of various local and national artists in the Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery. The gallery was established in 2000 in memory of Southern Maryland artist Tony Hungerford, the son of Vincent and Evelyn Hungerford.
The gallery is at the La Plata Campus, Fine Arts Center and is open Monday - Friday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Please call 301-934-7828 to arrange for other hours if necessary. Gallery Talks are usually held on Tuesday afternoons and are free and open to the public.
Artist Jan Clayton Pagratis has made a gift to CSM of one of the paintings from her show: "The Yellow School Bus" 14"x11" Encaustic, Pencil Shavings, Rusty Metal and Wood, on Canvas.
Ms. Pagratis expressed her warm gratitude for the opportunity to show her work at CSM and a special appreciation for the interest expressed by the students. The painting she donated relates to students, and education in particular, and she felt CSM to be an appropriate home for the painting. CSM, the Division of Communication, Arts and Humanities and the Tony Hungerford Memorial Art Gallery would like to thank Ms. Pagratis for her gift and show our appreciation for her work.
The family of painter and avid sportsman Professor Larry Chappelear has made a wonderful gift to CSM of one of his abstract paintings, Juniper II, 2004, mixed media on panel, now hanging in the FA Theatre Lobby. From 1973 to his retirement in 2011, Mr. Chappelear was an advocate and coordinator for the Studio Arts program, promoted exhibits of visiting artists that led to the founding of the Tony Hungerford Art Gallery, became a popular professor who helped thousands of students acquire a greater appreciation of the arts and more skill in expressing their own artistry, and married potter and fellow faculty member Susan Chappelear. We missed Mr. Chappelear when he retired from the college family and came to miss him even more when he passed away in the early months of his retirement. Juniper II is all the more treasured as an addition to the college's art collection, for his work will serve as a lasting memory of his contributions to the college and his skill and creativity as a painter.
From 1973 to 2011, Larry Chappelear was an advocate for the Studio Arts program and a beloved mentor to thousands of students.
Today, Chappelear’s work is on display in the Fine Arts Center, permanently exhibited in the building’s lobby, which is now titled the Larry Chappelear Memorial Gallery. Paintings that depict the artist’s unique view of Southern Maryland’s beautiful landscape hang on the walls, serving as inspiration to the students and community members who visit the building for classes, performances, and programs.
Chappelear was instrumental in the founding of the Tony Hungerford Art Gallery. He was a popular professor and helped thousands of students acquire a greater appreciation of the arts. His mentorship made it possible for them to express their own artistry and hone their skills.
Chappelear was missed when he retired from CSM in 2011, and the entire college mourned when he passed away a few short months later. The gallery in the Fine Arts Building represents a memorial to a man who made an impact on so many lives.