A man looks at Kathleen Melian-Kadikian's oil on canvas paintings titled, "Confirm" at Santa Monica College's Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery during SMC's Art Mentor Student Show on Thursday, June 18, 2009. The exhibit is curated by Pilar Thompkins, curator of the Claremont Museum of Art and director of the Latin American branch of the Artist Pension Trust.
The Art Mentor Program is a unique year long program for gifted visual art students, selected by SMC art department faculty.
The program - in many ways similar to a graduate school program - was created to provide an innovative, experimental and interdisciplinary environment for students to explore a variety of art forms, professional practices and critical theory. Students work in small groups with a professional artist or art historian, visit artists' studios and art institutions, and participate in group discussions and critiques.
Exhibit run through July 1st. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday Call (310) 434-3434