We're big supporters of new emerging artists and thus we're really looking forward to seeing Northern Liberties' Projects Gallery open its 2008-09 exhibition season with Fresh! 2008. This invitational exhibition includes an impressive number of the city's emerging artists, including many recent graduates from various art programs. Selected by gallery Director Helen Meyrick because of her "immediate visceral response to their work," these artists bring sculpture, photography, painting and drawing to the show. Mayerick tells......

Because I'm in the process of curating a traveling exhibition of undergraduate art student work, in the last few months I've seen a lot of student art from schools and universities along the Mid Atlantic... a lot of student artwork. And at the risk of sounding too harsh, I've been unimpressed with most of the artwork I've seen, and its presentation. But within a few minutes of walking into the Moore College of Art &......