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Elyse Hyle
  • Art
  • Class of 2013
  • Phoenix, MD

Annual Student Honors Exhibition Showcases Work by McDaniel College Senior Elyse Hyle of Phoenix, Md.

2013 Feb 25

The student honors exhibition at McDaniel College, Westminster, Md., features a variety of work from six female senior art students, including Elyse Hyle of Phoenix, Md.

Titled "smARTies," this annual exhibition runs Tuesday, March 26 – Friday, April 5, in McDaniel's Rice Gallery, Peterson Hall, at 2 College Hill, Westminster, Md. An opening reception takes place Tuesday, March 26, 7 – 9 p.m.

Elyse Hyle looks at childhood and adulthood hardships and the striking similarity in the emotions that they elicit. Many of her works depict childhood toys and some are interactive encouraging viewers to play. According to Hyle, "As adults, we look back at our childhood as a carefree wondrous time, but in reality, childhood was just as hard for us as adulthood is today. As children, we were just better at letting the stresses of life go and focus on the things that made us happier."

The exhibition and reception are both free and open to the public. Rice Gallery hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday from noon – 4 p.m., Thursday, noon – 8 p.m., and Saturday, noon – 5 p.m. Call 410-857-2595 for more information. Visit www.mcdaniel.edu for information about McDaniel College.

McDaniel College, recognized nationally among "40 Colleges that Change Lives" and U.S. News top-tier liberal arts colleges, is a four-year private college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including dual and student-designed majors, plus 25 highly regarded graduate programs. Its hallmark faculty-student collaborations in research, teaching and mentoring plus hundreds of leadership and service opportunities enrich a lively learning experience that is rooted in a personalized interdisciplinary and global curriculum. Innovative January courses take students to points all over the world while McDaniel's degree-granting European campus offers a unique opportunity for international study at the only American university in Budapest, Hungary. A diverse and close-knit community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,560 part-time graduate students, McDaniel also boasts a spectacular 160-acre hilltop campus in Westminster, Md., an hour or less from Baltimore, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay, an Amtrak station and BWI international airport.