The show, featuring the work of teachers Paula Gillam of the Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale, Catherine Leisek of Broward Community College and Susan Urbanek, chairwoman of art and humanities at Palm Beach Community College, is on view through Sept. 19 at the Fine Arts Gallery on Broward Community College Central Campus in Davie.

Goddesses of charm, beauty, nature and fertility, the Graces originated in Greek and Roman mythology as inspirations of creativity. In Gillam's same-titled triptych, the graces are evocations of feminine loveliness, ethereal in filmy dresses. Domestic duties and the pressures of wife and motherhood are suggested by two mixed-media houses in her A House Is Not a Home series.

And it is, especially in the works that Leisek, Gillam and Urbanek tackled together. The Small Sacrifices Altar is set below Gillam's triptych, a perfect match tonally and thematically. The table of the altar is covered with Mexican tulle fabric soaked in wax. On the fabric and under the altar are natural materials like sea shells, twigs and flowers. There are also drawers with perfume bottles, Gillam's satin wedding shoes, photos, and tiny dolls in ribbon-tied net envelopes.

Urbanek's contributions include the etching The Romance of Helen Trent, Part II, which she explains as dealing with female sexuality and sensuality. In the mixed-media Ship of Fools, a clay ark populated by President Bush, Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Vice President Dick Cheney.

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