Loyola closing Crown Center Gallery

A Loyola Phoenix article by Nathan Bobinchak reveals that Loyola University plans to close its Crown Center Gallery at the end of the Fall 2009 semester. While Loyola officials attribute the move to space constraints on academic departments and suggest the fine arts program can find room for exhibitions elsewhere, program director Nicole Ferentz and other fine arts faculty speak candidly with Bobinchak about their opposition to the scheme. Students in Ferentz's Visual Communications III class have created a blog and ad campaign to protest the gallery's closure. [Via Artnet's Twitter feed, twitter.com/artnetdotcom.]