Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp

Students,

Blue Lake Fine Arts Camp is a non-profit summer school of the arts serving more than 5,400 gifted elementary, junior high, and high school students each season.  Blue Lake offers more than 220 staff positions to motivated college musicians and artists who serve as mentors and role models for our students.

They are currently in the process of hiring staff for our 2017 season (June 18 – August 20) and are searching for talented college students to fill positions.  We are particularly in need of exceptional visual arts, art education, and art therapy majors.

Members of our counseling staff have many opportunities during the summer, including assisting in Blue Lake’s art department, supervising art students during classes, and working with and learning from professional faculty. There are also teaching positions with our elementary students available for those who qualify. Working at Blue Lake offers college students incredible experience in leadership and working with youth!

You can find more information here: http://bluelake.org/employment/staff

Maggie Mullin O'Hara -- 'Gestures of Persistence'

We are currently exhibiting the work, 'Gestures of Persistence,' by Maggie Mullin O'Hara, in our FAB Gallery here at SC State! 

Maggie Mullin O'Hara is a multimedia artist from Pittsburgh, PA, currently based in the South; specifically, Columbia, SC and Savannah, GA. Her work exists as a hybrid form, borrowing from the traditions of the mediums of video, photography, performance and installation. It explores ideas of interconnectedness between the physical body and experiences of psychological balance and imbalance while proposing the possibility of fulfillment through the indeterminate. It challenges the trans-subjective nature of our roles in the experience of the work, as well as the potentiality for indetermination as change -- as having the capability to reverse pain into pleasure, or more radically, to collapse distinctions between the two. The work proposes the ultimatum of indeterminacy leading towards an artistic, affective production, and away from any possibility of being limited, distinct or settled. 

Maggie received her Master's of Fine Arts in Photography from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2015 and her Bachelor's of Fine Arts in Photography from Point Park University in 2013. She currently serves as adjunct Professor of Digital Video and curator/manager of the FAB gallery within the Fine Arts Department at South Carolina State University.

There is a closing reception scheduled for Monday, March 6th at 5pm. We hope to see you there!