Highland Gallery

Highland Gallery is a college approved and supported educational venue designed to affirm principles set forth by complimentary offices of higher education.  These principles are comprised of a diverse collection of requisites, all aimed at guiding students and the surrounding community toward opportunities of personal and professional growth. 
 
The ability to conceptualize, analyze, integrate, examine, challenge, and converse is considered central to human growth, and serves as Highland Gallery’s reality. This reality is evidenced by showcasing art work that addresses pre-existing and alternative values through exploration and discussion of divergent views free from coercion, harassment, and censorship.
 
Enacting this reality involves an expansive and inclusive vision in which academic standards of the college, artistic freedom, and a diverse viewing audience are acknowledged.  This is achieved by establishing a physical and *philosophical space fostering discovery through the viewing of visual works of art best suited to non-commercial spaces.
 
The gallery sponsors, organizes and installs a wide variety of exhibits throughout the academic year; including solo and group invitationals as well as juried competitions at the high school, college, and community level.  These exhibitions compliment the curriculum of the visual arts and other college programs, while inviting the public to build and celebrate their relationship with the college.  The gallery also functions as a training ground for student workers interested in gallery installation procedures and curacy.
 
Highland Gallery strives to challenge our ideas and encourage intellectual discussion through the viewing of works of art.  Access and exposure to original works of art is an essential facet of personal, professional and academic education.  This exposure affords unlimited opportunities for growth, thereby designating the gallery a triumphant tool in successfully fulfilling the mission of the college.
 
*Philosophical space is a metaphor for meaning. If one associates meaning with the human brain, then physically, philosophical space rests between the ears and behind the face. It is within a world of mental constructs that we relate thoughts, objects and symbols and tum them into literature, music, architecture, religion, science. Answers to questions regarding the meaning of life and the nature of the world in which we live reflect any culture’s philosophical space where words and thoughts and things interrelate. (W. Benesch, An Introduction to Comparative Philosophy) https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057%2F9780230597389_1