“Stolen Angel,” a 13- by 20-inch digital print, is by Brooke Craig, an alumna of Notre Dame High School.
“Birthday Cake” is an 18- by 24-inch pastel by Mary Margaret Groves, an alumna of Girls Preparatory School.Mary Margaret Groves describes birthday cakes as iconic “symbols of days belonging to people.”
The fact that her vibrant pastel piece, “Birthday Cake,” expressed that emotion well enough to get her work accepted into the Young Tennessee Artists exhibit is the icing on the cake.
Groves and Brooke Craig are two of 34 talented teens to be selected for the fourth Young Tennessee Artists, sponsored by the Frist Center for the Visual Art in Nashville. The exhibition, which takes place every two years, will be on display at the museum through April 21.
Groves, 19, the daughter of Ann and David Groves, is an alumna of Girls Preparatory School and is now a freshman at Pomona College in Claremont, Calif.
Craig, daughter of Renee and Glen Craig, is a graduate of Notre Dame High School and is an 18-year-old freshman art major at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.