UNCW University Union Exhibit Series Presents "UNCW Creates"
3/9/2006 8:33:23 AM
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Wilmington, NC - "UNCW Creates," a new art exhibit in the University Union Living Room, highlights student work from five classes from the University of North Carolina Wilmington Department of Art and the Theatre Program including drawings, intaglio prints, lithographs, sculpture, and costume design. The exhibition opens Monday March 13 and runs through April 24. The exhibition is free and open to the public. It is sponsored by UNCW Presents and the University Union Arts Committee.
Classes will be featured on a rotational basis in the University Union Living Room gallery. This exhibit was designed to give the UNCW community a chance to see and experience creations from the studio art classrooms and an overall sense of the variety of artistic mediums being taught in the department. Each part of the exhibit is designed to feature three-dimensional art in conjunction with two-dimensional art.
Drawings and two-dimensional designs, displayed by students of Pam Toll, will be on display through Friday, April 14. "Fundamentals of Drawings" is a beginning level studio class where emphasis is placed on students' ability to develop visual perception, visual memory as well as demonstrate their ability to communicate with line, shape, value, and texture. Exploration of drawing media is also encouraged along with the exploration of a variety of surfaces. Her class progresses from simple drawings to more complex compositions. Drawings are used as a preliminary way to work out ideas. In some cases, students push drawings to a full expression of an idea. The works included in this exhibit showcase the students' first attempts at using value to develop the illusion of three-dimensional space and the play of light over the surface of eggs or paper bags.
"Two-Dimensional Design Class" focuses on the process of creative problem solving where students develop a visual vocabulary, experience different media, and come to understand the creative process by working on a series of projects. Each successive project builds on concepts and skills gained working on earlier tasks. Finally students learn to critically evaluate their work according to the principles of design. Included in the exhibit are three examples of the first design project of the semester; "form problem."
The exhibit concludes with work of students creating sculptures, instructed by Vikki Smith, intaglio and lithographs, instructed by Don Furst, and costume design, instructed by Melonie Mortimore, from Monday, April 17 through Monday, April 24. The exhibition of sculptures will include metal fabrication and transference (casting). Intaglio, a printing process, will include copperplate engravings, mezzotint and stone lithographs. Costume design is part of the Theatre Program and will show the process and techniques used in rendering and developing an individual aesthetic and design in the field of theatrical costuming. Their contribution to the exhibition will include beaded jewelry, appliqué work, hats, and paint/dye projects, and some sewing projects
The University Union hours of operation are Monday through Wednesday 7 a.m. - 12 a.m.; Thursday and Friday, 7 a.m. - 1 a.m.; Saturdays, 10 am - 1 am, and Sundays 1 p.m. - 12 a.m. For more information, contact UNCW Presents at (910) 962-7971 or visit http://www.uncw.edu/arts. For directions or a campus map, visit http://www.uncw.edu/ba/campus_map.htm.
Media inquiries may be directed to Tammi Berry at (910) 962-7972 or berryt@uncw.edu.
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