PRESS RELEASE

August 28, 2007
 
From: Gloria Maya, Director McCray Gallery
McCray Gallery Press Release #1
 
The McCray Gallery invitation list is being updated and restructured into an electronic Email list plus we are adding new organizations for the upcoming academic year. If you are interested in the arts and interested in supporting the arts at Western New Mexico University, you are invited to join the new “Friends of the McCray Gallery” organization. This arts support group will meet with the gallery director, Professor Maya, to participate in planning gallery art openings, volunteer as gallery docents and form the community gallery arts organization.
 
The new WNMU Art Alumni Gallery Friends is simultaneously forming to bring all WNMU art alumni who have graduated from WNMU with an art major to reunite with their art peers over the century in support of the McCray Gallery. The first activity is to plan a future WNMU Art Alumni exhibit.
 
Add your information to the McCray Gallery invitation list by email to McCray@email.wnmu.edu or mail your information to McCray Gallery, Contemporary Art, Western New Mexico University, P.O. Box 680 - 1000 West College Avenue, Silver City, NM 88062 or call the gallery office at (505) 538-6517 for additional information.         
 
Please include your name or names, mailing address, telephone number and email address and indicate whether you wish to join “Friends of the McCray Gallery” and/or the WNMU Art Alumni Gallery Friends.
 
The first exhibit of the WNMU 2007-08 academic year in the Francis McCray Gallery of Contemporary Art is the intriguing work of Dan Davidson with an exhibition of I Ching paintings titled “Returning the Hexagrams.” The artist has traveled extensively throughout the east in the course of his career and studied Chinese Art at the National Palace Museum in Taipei, Taiwan, the Buddhist Temple Gardens in Kyoto, Japan and the private gardens in Beijing, China and Hangchou, Soochow. Dan Davidson currently teaches drawing classes at Western New Mexico University. This spectacular exhibit opens on Friday, Sept. 7, from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. The community is invited to attend the opening reception. The exhibit is free to the public.
 
For additional information, please leave a message for Professor Maya, McCray Gallery Director, at 505-538-6515 or mayag@wnmu.edu

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