Assorted Flavours, a new juried exhibition of student art, is on display at Rodman Hall until April 11.

Once a year, Visual Arts students submit their best artwork for inclusion in an annual exhibition juried by Canadian professional artists. This year’s exhibition, organized by students, explores the range of contemporary art media.

Assorted Flavours includes painting, drawing, photography, video, sculpture and installation works. The artworks in this exhibit have been selected by this year’s jurors — Maggie Groat of Guelph and Melanie MacDonald of St. Catharines.

Maggie Groat is a visual artist who works in performance, intervention, video, film, photography and drawing. In 2008, she received grants from the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She received her BFA from York University in Visual Art Studies in 2007. She lives and works in Guelph, where she is completing her first year of the MFA program at the University of Guelph. Maggie is part of the CRAM art collective, based out of her hometown of St. Catharines.

Melanie MacDonald was born in St. Catharines in 1976. Today, she lives in downtown St. Catharines and is an active member of the Niagara Artists’ Centre, the region’s only artist-run centre. She is also a member of the CRAM collective. In 2000, she graduated from Brock with a combined Honours BA in English and Visual Art. She has participated in group and solo exhibitions in the Niagara Region, Northern Ontario, and Quebec.

Such exhibits from the Department of Visual Arts are essential to the Marilyn I. Walker School of Fine and Performing Arts’ mandate to connect the community with the breadth of talent and creativity at Brock University. This event is free and open to the public.