Rosalba Ponce ’18 is spending her summer in Virginia along with four other undergraduate students from across the country curating and designing a one-of-a-kind art exhibit.
Ponce was selected to participate in this project by the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection of the University of Virginia. This is the only museum outside of Australia dedicated to the exhibition and study of Indigenous Australian culture and arts.
Ponce, who is pursuing a degree in fine/studio arts at Whittier, was able to see the fruits of her labor when the exhibit opened on July 20. The exhibit was titled Songs of a Secret County, and included 23 artworks newly donated to Kluge-Ruhe. The donation includes abstract, large-scale contemporary masterpieces from desert regions, which are not heavily represented in the current collection.
To learn more about the exhibit, please visit the Kluge-Ruhe website.
Pictured left: Imani Williford, India Ferguson, Rosalba Ponce, Caitlyn Keeve, and Jake Martin use a model of the Kluge-Ruhe galleries to plan their exhibition Songs of a Secret Country during the 2017 Summer Curatorial Research Project at the University of Virginia. Photo by Lauren Maupin.
