Museum spotlights work of selected alumni

Staff report

YOUNGSTOWN

The McDonough Museum will open its fall exhibition schedule Saturday with “Reunion II Alumni Invitational.”

The exhibition will open with a public reception from 6 to 8 p.m. and will run through Nov. 7.

The art department of Youngstown State University, together with the McDonough Museum of Art, have invited a selection of distinguished alumni — many of whom have achieved national and international recognition — to participate in the exhibition, the second in a series of alumni invitationals.

The selectees were chosen in a process in which the faculty and emeritus faculty of the art department submitted names of former students whose art and design careers they have followed. From these submissions came the group of 56 artists featured in this exhibition.

Among the varied submissions will be an installation by Vaughn Wascovich on the exterior of the museum entitled “Rodeo Series.”

Also a limited-edition T-shirt designed by Justin Carolyne for the exhibition will be on sale at the museum, 524 Wick Ave., on the campus of YSU and directly across from the Butler Institute of American Art.

The fall lecture series in the McDonough auditorium will also include several alumni.

Wascovich, who is an associate professor of photography at Texas A&M University-Commerce, will speak Wednesday; Bill Tomory, an account representative at Knepper Press, on Oct. 8; and Chris Ross, preparator at the Akron Art Museum, on Oct. 15. All lectures will be from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.

All events are free and open to the public.

For information, call 330-941-1400 or go to mcdonoughmuseum.ysu.edu.