Wheat paste wall photographs of unique tattoo designs fill the Robert E. White Gallery
BANGOR – Husson College college students enrolled within the “FA230 – Combined Media Explorations” class have created an artwork set up known as “Anchors Away” that honors the creative design of “Sailor Jerry” tattoos. The set up consists of huge wheat paste tattoo designs affixed to the partitions of the gallery.
“‘Sailor Jerry’ tattoos have a definite model.” stated Kathi J. Smith, MFA an affiliate professor within the Faculty of Science and Humanities. “These works are characterised by daring, crisp strains with pops of coloration that create emphasis inside the picture. These tattoos are primarily nautical in theme.”
An artist reception the place the general public can meet the scholar artists and luxuriate in this exhibition runs from 3 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. on Nov. 9 within the Robert E. White Gallery, adjoining to the campus heart in Peabody Corridor. Peabody Corridor is situated at 54 Faculty Circle in Bangor on the campus of Husson College. Anybody who can’t attend the opening reception is welcome to go to the present over the course of the subsequent month. The exhibition runs from by way of Dec. 7. The gallery is open Monday by way of Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. for viewing and reflection.
The present is scholar designed and curated. “FA230 – Combined Media Explorations” is a advantageous arts elective that’s open to all Husson College college students. On this specific course, college students work with a wide range of totally different supplies together with: drawing, portray, printmaking, sculpture and design. By way of their sketchbook and course work, college students develop artistic pondering and drawback fixing abilities.
“I’m very happy with these college students. They labored so exhausting to create this set up,” stated Kat Johnson, MFA, an adjunct school member who shared her insights with Husson college students within the combined media class. “Your complete class labored collectively on what turned a real collaboration. It’s our hope that anybody who visits the gallery enjoys this set up.”
Extra in regards to the Exhibition:
One of many a number of several types of media launched within the combined media class was wheat paste. The historical past of wheat paste might be traced again to the Eighteen Nineties and has typically been used to put up political or revolutionary messages.
Creative expressions utilizing this medium require college students to create an adhesive composed of water and flour. This glue is then utilized to a wall with a paint brush. A printed paper picture is then positioned atop the glue. Air bubbles are pressed out because the paper is pressed to the wall. Pupil artists then apply a further layer of wheat paste over the picture to finish the method.
Every scholar was required to provide you with a number of nautical impressed designed. After they every developed a number of choices, the scholars narrowed their picks right down to the one picture they would come with within the present. This picture turned their very personal wall-sized “tattoo.”
This was achieved by making a thumbnail of their picture after which tracing it to paper utilizing an overhead projector to scale the picture to full dimension. The silhouette needed to be thickly outlined in black paint earlier than filling it in with sensible coloration, mirroring the “Sailor Jerry” tattoo model. Your complete course of, from begin to end, was a category collaboration.
Extra in regards to the Robert E. White Gallery at Husson College
Artists with connections to Maine who work in each attainable medium together with watercolors, oil work, pastels, sculptures, acrylics, images and etchings, are featured on the Robert E. White Gallery.
With a brand new present roughly each eight weeks, the gallery offers college students with a glimpse into how New England artists categorical themselves, giving them added perception into the place the place they’ve chosen to go to high school. The gallery was established in 1992 and named for, and endowed by, Husson alumni and former Board of Trustees Chair Robert E. White ’65.
For added data, contact Kathi Smith by telephone 207-941-7004 or by electronic mail at [email protected].
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