HALLOWELL — The Kennebec Art Association will host an exhibit of work by Maine art students focusing on global warming and the environment, association officials announced.

The opening reception for the exhibit is scheduled to be held at the Harlow Gallery on Friday from 5-8 p.m. featuring art students from around the state.

The exhibit, entitled “Informed Choices: Global Warming,” will be on display for two weeks, Jan. 18-Feb. 3, association Executive Director Deborah Fahy said.

The exhibit is being curated by University of Maine at Augusta art student Ted Closson, they said. Dylan Voorhees, energy project director for the Natural Resources Council of Maine, will speak at the opening Friday evening.

Closson has been a student at the University of Maine at Augusta since 2004 and is a senior this year. Other participating artists include Mike Dworkin, Patrick P. Fagre, Tim Hoffman, Meredith Keene, Barbara MacKirnon, Karen Kelly-Philbrick, Paul Philbrick, Leslie Pratt, Vellangi Stringus, and Masha Ben-Tepherith.

Artists participating in the program will accept donations during the exhibition to be used to purchase offsets for the carbon fuels and other materials used by the gallery in the form of renewable-energy credits. The money from the credits is invested in renewable energy projects, program planners explained.

Gallery hours are Friday, Saturday and Sunday, noon to 6 p.m.