Five art exhibits will be displayed on campus tonight, each with a different theme.

From 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the UW Art Museum students and community members can attend a free public reception displaying the Spring 2011 art exhibition. 

There will be five exhibitions at the Art Museum, which are displayed for the entire spring. They include: “The 36^th Annual Juried UW Student Exhibition;” “The UW Art Department Faculty Exhibition;” “Richard Barns: Animal Logic;” “The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection: Fifty Works for Fifty States;” and “The American Regionalism: Selections from the Art Museum Collection.”

“The 36^th Annual Juried UW Student Exhibition” will highlight numerous Art Department students from a variety of different disciplines. The exhibitions were open to all undergraduate, graduate and post-baccalaureate students to submit their work for consideration. Each year, a juror from outside Wyoming comes and selects the art that will be shown. This year’s juror is Robyn Peterson, the executive director of the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Mont. 

During Friday’s reception, there will be an award ceremony to celebrate “Standout work” according to a UW press release. 

“The UW Art Department Faculty Exhibition” takes places every three years, highlighting work down by art staff members. Art disciplines include painting, printing-making and sculpture. 

“Richard Barnes: Animal Logic” is an exhibition that “Features a behind-the-scenes photograph taken in natural history museums around the world,” according to the press release.

It explores the world of natural history museums before the exhibits open. “In addition to offering interesting notions about how unnatural natural history museums are, Barnes also explores how we collect, preserve and contain specimens of natural world,” the release said.