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Dominican University’s O’Connor Art Gallery will open its Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition with a reception on Wednesday, March 26 from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. in the O’Connor Art Gallery on the fourth floor of Lewis Hall, 7900 W. Division Street, River Forest. The show continues through April 6.

Work by student artists, competitively selected from a large pool of entries by Dominican University art faculty, will be on display in the gallery. Margaret Hawkins, Chicago-based art critic for the Chicago Sun-Times and curator of the Hyde Park Art Center, will jury the show and recommend awards in categories including photography, painting and design.

Regular exhibition hours are Monday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public. For more information, please contact Jessica Cochran, gallery director, at jcochran@dom.edu.

Founded in 1901, Dominican University is a comprehensive, coeducational Catholic institution offering bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Dominican offers 50 undergraduate academic programs in the Rosary College of Arts and Sciences and 15 graduate programs through the Graduate School of Library and Information Science, the Brennan School of Business, the School of Education, the Graduate School of Social Work, and the School of Leadership and Continuing Studies. In the 2008 issue of America’s Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report again ranked Dominican University in the top tier of Midwest master’s level universities and as a “great school at a great price” for the tenth consecutive year.