Press Release

Gallery 414 presents Nod and Smile, a group exhibition featuring the works of 17 metro area students involved in the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth's Teen-Artist Project:

Jacqulyn Anthony, Boswell High School
Ethan Bowen, Keller High School
Margaret Cardell, Colleyville Heritage High School
Britney Cunningham, Castleberry High School
Issey Howe, Trinity Christian School
Hannah Lander, Colleyville Heritage High School
Sean McGuire, Colleyville Heritage High School
Forrest Meharg, Homeschool
Lori Mitchell, Arlington Heights High School
Megan Montgomery, Trinity Valley School
Andrew Ordonez, Mansfield Timberview High School
Akiko Palmer, Paschal High School
Camille Ritchie, Boswell High School
Amelia Salata, Castleberry High School
Eryn Smith, Fort Worth Academy of Fine Arts
Alex Revier, Academy of Irving

Nod and Smile opens Saturday, May 2 and runs through Sunday, May 17. A reception for the artists will be held Saturday, May 16 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. The reception is free and open to the public.

The Teen-Artist Project is a Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth education program. Students from across the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex in grades 10Ð12 are invited to apply to the program in the fall of each year. A select group of students are chosen to participate in the program based on their artwork, answers to several essay questions, and teacher recommendation.

Once selected, students spend Sunday afternoons from December through May working with area artists at the Modern. Each artist works with the students over a period of several weeks, using the museum's current exhibition as a teaching tool and working with the students in the museum studio on related art projects. This year, the students had the opportunity to work with artists Jeff Zilm, Matthew Sontheimer, Terri Thornton, and Margaret Meehan in a variety of different media.