New exhibition to be shown in the Juanita Harvey Art Gallery

     The Juanita Harvey Art Gallery at Midwestern State University will present Hollow Ground by artist Alice Leora Briggs in the main gallery and British Studies Photography 2009 in the Foyer Gallery, Friday, January 22-February 19, 2010. 

     Hollow Ground is an exhibition of art works created by artist Alice Leora Briggs. Briggs received a master of arts from the University of Iowa and is currently a practicing artist residing in Lubbock, Texas. Briggs has had numerous one person and group exhibitions throughout the United States and in Europe.  Recent fellowships and grants include awards from Border Art Residency, Jentel Foundation, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Arizona Commission on the Arts, Contemporary Forum and Cummings Endowment Fund, Phoenix Art Museum, Tucson/Pima Arts Council, Larry E. Elsner Art Foundation, and the Dallas Museum of Art's Otis and Velma Davis Dozier Travel Grant. Briggs will have a book released in April 2010 about her work, Dreamland, published by the University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas. Briggs was also the recipient of the Oklahoma Prize in the first Texas-Oklahoma Prize Biennial at the Wichita Falls Museum of Art.