College Addresses The Education Gender Gap
The Bermuda College is pondering the gender gap in local education with an art show and student forum this week.
With Bermudian females continuing to far outpace males when it comes to pursuing higher education, the Bermuda College Art Gallery concludes its series of fall 2011 art exhibitions with an opening this Thursday [Nov. 3] of an exhibition entitled: “The MAD Show [Male Academic Disengagement].”
The Bermuda College Art Gallery is partnering with Bermudian Artists Rise Up [BARU] for the first time on this show. BARU seeks to provide opportunities for artists to collaborate and to use their combined efforts to speak to issues of social and cultural importance.
Exhibiting members include Calix Smith, Ami Zanders, Summer Wood, Gavin Smith, Manuel Palacio, Dany Penn, Ed Smith and others.
“This art exhibition, the MAD Show, is a visual art response and a contribution to the conversation that is centered around the question, ‘Why are many males still academically disengaged considering the amount of available resources?” said a College spokesman.
The show is being held in conjunction with the Bermuda College’s Division of Liberal Art’s Student Forum on the same topic “Male Academic Disengagement”.
All are invited to come and share in the forum discussion and to view the works and speak with the artists at a reception.
The forum is taking place in the Hallett Hall’s Blue Room from 4:30-6:30 p.m
The exhibition’s opening reception immediately follows the forum at the Bermuda College Art Gallery on the second floor of North Hall.
The exhibit will continue for four weeks.
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