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"Don't Ever Change" in the Tuttle Gallery

High school. How do artists interpret the experience? Curator Susan Hayman of Baltimore asked 10 professional artists to do just that, and the result is “Don't Ever Change: Interpreting the High School Experience” showing in McDonogh School's Tuttle Gallery through October 31.

“Don’t Ever Change” features new work by Katie Bush, Emily Flake, Tracey Halvorsen, Jona Frank, Christine Hamm, Beth Secor, William Mebane, Allyn Massey, Deborah Johnson and Eduardo Illades. (Halvorsen, Secor, and Massey are Baltimore residents, while Illades, Johnson, and Flake are locally trained.) The media is as varied as the high-school theme is common: painting, illustration, photography, interactive Flash presentations, installation sculpture, and drawing.

Explains visiting curator Hayman, “My goal for the exhibit was to discuss positive and negative experiences and issues that people have confronted in high school . . . to take those themes and ask artists to make exhibition-specific work. I asked artists, writers, and interactive designers to communicate with an audience [high school students] they never reach.”

The Tuttle Gallery, located in the Lyle Building on McDonogh’s campus, provides a space for emerging artists and well-established artists to exhibit their works. The gallery hours are from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday. For further information, call 410-998-3511.