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May 3,
2002
Exhibition,
Symposium, and Museum Reception Celebrate Arts
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Photo: Fred Leblanc
Lisa
Mercure FP hopes to "turn expectations upside down"
and challenge definitions of art by creating sculpture from
mundane materials. This untitled piece is made from roofing
felt scraps, string, foil, tape, and a soy milk box.
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Trash and old objects
create something new when composed as abstract sculpture. A series
of jarring but beautiful photographs juxtapose individual and
institution, human and nature. Prints combine embossing, drawing,
painting, and writing to create a multimedia exploration of space.
These works—created by Mount Holyoke studio art majors—are
part of an exhibition scheduled for display May 4–25 in the
newly renovated Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, open Tuesday–Friday,
11 am–5 pm. Also planned for May 4 is Mount Holyoke's first
art symposium, at which four art history and two studio art majors
will present their theses in Blanchard Campus Center between 10
am and 1 pm. Faculty advisers will introduce each student, and
Associate Professor of Art Bettina Bergmann will moderate the
forum.
The Senior Art Majors'
Exhibition 2002 will feature sculpture, installation works, painting,
photography, and prints that complete students' requirements for
the studio art major. The fifteen seniors whose work makes up
the show are Julie Benjamin, Mariah Bergeron, Abigail Collins,
Christina Gagliardi, Anna Hewitt, Kathy Kim, Mari LaCure, Carrie
Marten, Lisa Mercure, Anaka Nazareth, Mariko Osada, Morgen Perdue,
Mia Radysh, Magdalena A. Rios Metcalf, and Molly Sullivan. Students
conceived and developed the projects independently and executed
them with regular feedback from studio faculty, a process that
art department visiting artist Carleen Sheehan described as a
“vigorous dialogue.” The art museum staff is also integral
to the process of preparing student artists for the exhibition
experience, participating in critiques, advising students about
professional display practices, and installing the show itself.
“This is not only one of the largest groups we've ever had
but also one of the strongest,” said Sheehan, coordinator
of the exhibition. An opening reception will be held in the museum
lobby and galleries Sunday, May 5, 4–6 pm.
Prior to the show's
opening, from 3–4 pm, the museum will host a Celebration
of the Arts reception, which will feature a series of performances
and readings highlighting all aspects of visual and performance
art at Mount Holyoke. The event will include short talks on museum
objects by Paula Debnar, associate professor of classics, and
Jonathan Lipman, professor of history; poetry readings by Mary
Jo Salter, Emily Dickinson Lecturer in the Humanities, and Katharine
Sapper FP, participant in the 2002 Kathryn Irene Glascock Intercollegiate
Poetry Competition; a performance of the duel scene from Hamlet,
recently on stage at Rooke Theatre; a short talk and demonstration
by Linda Craib FP of a costume made for Hamlet; and performances
of dance and a cappella music.
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