The Art So­ci­ety will host the first Thru Con­tem­po­rary Arts Col­lec­tion from Au­gust 17-21. The ex­hi­bi­tion will fea­ture a wide va­ri­ety of in­ter­na­tion­al work in­clud­ing mixed me­dia, pho­tog­ra­phy, em­broi­dery and dig­i­tal work from Thru Con­tem­po­rary Arts' per­ma­nent pub­lic col­lec­tion.

"These con­tem­po­rary works push the en­ve­lope and ques­tion the essence of what is art," said a re­lease from Thru Con­tem­po­rary Arts, which the re­lease de­scribes as "a col­lab­o­ra­tion of artists, writ­ers and cu­ra­tors."Thru is a project ini­tia­tive of the T&T-based non-prof­it arts or­gan­i­sa­tion GET­THRU.

Con­trib­u­tors to the col­lec­tion in­clude Adele Todd, GA Gard­ner and Sarah Knights, all from T&T; as well as Ju­dith Ganz, Ger­many; Serge Game, the Nether­lands; Bea­ta Ob­st, Poland; Be­hzad Mah­moud­pour, Iran and Stan Squiewell, Unit­ed States among oth­er coun­tries.

GA Gard­ner cu­rates the show.

"The Art So­ci­ety is very pleased to host Thru Con­tem­po­rary Arts' ex­hi­bi­tion in Au­gust 2015. We wel­come Dr GA Gard­ner, who will be cu­rat­ing this very im­por­tant show of con­tem­po­rary art at our gallery in Fed­er­a­tion Park. It is im­per­a­tive that the So­ci­ety puts on shows like these es­pe­cial­ly for stu­dent artists, school­child­ren and uni­ver­si­ty stu­dents and for many of our up­com­ing artists to take full ad­van­tage of view­ing," the re­lease quotes Art So­ci­ety pres­i­dent Clay­ton de Fri­etas as say­ing.

Gard­ner is the founder of GET­THRU. He said the ex­hi­bi­tion will give res­i­dents an op­por­tu­ni­ty to en­joy a cu­rat­ed body of work from Thru Con­tem­po­rary Art's col­lec­tion. Pre­vi­ous ex­hi­bi­tions have been held in Ger­many and the US Vir­gin Is­lands.Thru's "mes­sage is one that will best ben­e­fit the peo­ple of de­vel­op­ing re­gions such as the Caribbean, where ac­cess to an in­ter­na­tion­al body of con­tem­po­rary art is lim­it­ed," Gard­ner said in the re­lease.

Thru Con­tem­po­rary Arts hous­es and main­tains a ju­ried col­lec­tion of con­tem­po­rary art. The or­gan­i­sa­tion ac­quires and pro­motes the art­works of promi­nent con­tem­po­rary artists. This pub­lic col­lec­tion is ex­hib­it­ed at mu­se­ums, gal­leries and spaces with the goal of ed­u­cat­ing and in­tro­duc­ing un­der-served com­mu­ni­ties to var­i­ous forms of con­tem­po­rary art, the re­lease said. This project fo­cus­es on ex­hi­bi­tion, ed­u­ca­tion and the preser­va­tion of con­tem­po­rary arts.

The show­ing opens with a re­cep­tion at the Art So­ci­ety, cor­ner Ja­maica Boule­vard and St Vin­cent Av­enue, Fed­er­a­tion Park, on Au­gust 17 from 7�10 pm.The event is free and open to the pub­lic.

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