Current GRACE ExhibitionsEmerging Visions: FUSIONFeaturing new works combining science and art from Herndon, South Lakes, and Pimmit Hills HSMarch 5 - April 15, 2010 Reception: Friday, March 5, 6 - 8 pm Teen Night: Thursday, April 15, 6 - 9 pm Emerging Visions is an annual exhibition featuring Fairfax County adolescents in celebration of Youth Art Month.  Alec Heilner, SLHS, Glowing Fists of Larval Pink (detail), ink on paper, 8" x 8", 2009 This year's theme, FUSION, developed in response to the arts center's major fall exhibition, Divining Nature: An Elemental Garden, with sculptor Rebecca Kamen for which GRACE received an arts in education grant from the Arts Council of Fairfax County. Divining Nature interpreted the periodic table of elements as glowing, white flowers radiating out in a mathematical pattern based on a Fibonacci spiral. During the exhibition, Kamen visited each of the three high schools to discuss her work.
Drawing on Kamen's practice of using science as the springboard for aesthetic ideas, GRACE asked artists from Herndon, Pimmit Hills, and South Lakes high schools to develop their own art based on scientific concepts. GRACE also encouraged the artists to collaborate with science students to expand their thinking and explore the richness of combining disciplines such as Kamen does in her own studio practice.
Emerging Visions: FUSION brings important recognition to Fairfax County's excellent art teachers, their programs, and the schools and communities that support them. It is one of GRACE's most popular exhibitions characterized by complex thinking, assertive works, and wide-ranging perspectives.
This project was funded in part through a project grant from the Arts Council of Fairfax County with funds from the County of Fairfax.
Exhibition sponsor: Eileen Lyons Murphy
Educational programs related to Emerging Visions: FUSION are co-sponsored by the
Reston Community Center.
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