Palos Verdes Art Center / Beverly G. Alpay Center for Arts Education is pleased to announce Now Trending: 7th Annual Alpay Scholarship Exhibition, opening Saturday, June 10 with an artists reception six to nine pm. Current art and media students from Southern California colleges and universities were invited to submit engaging new work to be showcased in Palos Verdes Art Center’s Alpay Scholarship Exhibition, Now Trending. This year, the $5000 Alpay Scholarship was awarded to Jennifer Geruso for sculpture, Decayed State of Mind. This call was open only to currently enrolled undergraduate and graduate students in Southern California. The 2023 juror, Jeanne Medina Le, is an Assistant Professor in the School of Art at California State University at Long Beach and Fiber Program Area Head. She received her MFA in Fiber from Cranbrook Academy of Art, where she was awarded the Toby Devan Lewis Award.