Featuring new and exciting work by advanced MFA students and undergraduate art majors selected by a panel of student jurors, the Stillwell Student Art Exhibition will include innovative work in painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, glass, metal arts, textiles and video. A small selection of work by Leo D. Stillwell, Jr. will also be included.
Admission is free.
A prolific oil and watercolor painter who died in 1948 at the age of 22, Stillwell documented the years following World War II with provocative landscapes, allegorical studies and portraits. With many works in his oeuvre exploring homosexual themes, Stillwell is considered by some to be one of San Francisco's pioneer gay artists. In 1988 his mother Josephine Stillwell created a graduate art student scholarship endowment fund at SFSU, which supports the annual exhibition honoring Stillwell's life-long involvement with art, music and dance. The collected works of her son were also donated at that time to SFSU, with a rotating selection displayed each year.