Class Update

Professor Karen Adrienne                                                                         Art 430 Senior Project

University of Maine @ Augusta                                                                 621-3243 karena@maine.edu

 Feb.26              Share: Mentor Crit Reports. Review for the creation of rough art for Announcement card, Press releases etc.

Feb 28              Documentation.  Lead time if you want framing done (this impacts your documentation images if glassed ). Pre-visualization of your work and its installation.  Gallery Contract & insurance forms.

March 5            Discussion. Gallery walk and floor plans. Trip to Roy’s @ Remaissance. Documentation. Review art card design.  Review Press Release.

March 7            Final Announcement Card, Process presentation by designer group

                        Final Press Release, Process presentation by press group

                        Final media lists grid with contact information and point people for distribution

                        All individual mailing lists ready for Valerie Wheaton

March 11 &12    Hang UMA Art Student Exhibit in Danforth

                       

March 14          Second Faculty Critique: Gannett

March 19          Second Faculty Critique: Drawing Studio main campus

Art (card pick up & deliver to Val)

Tangents Update

Break down dates for the Gannett artists are on June 15 or 16. ( See below post for Danforth Gallery).

For both spaces, please pull nails, screws, labels etc. out of the walls, and leave things in a good condition. For now, pedestals can be left at the venue that they are in. If someone can not make these breakdown dates, try to make arrangements with someone to get your work for you. Many thanks to all for such an excellent exhibit.

Danforth Artists

Dear Danforth Artists,

I wanted to know if it is possible to leave your work up through June 6 th. Please get back to me and confirm. I do not want a partial show up if this is not possible for anyone. If this works for everyone, break down would be the 7th and 8th.

Thanks ,

Karen

President's Reception

Please feel encouraged to attend the President's Reception @ 4:30 in the Danforth Gallery this Friday, May 13th. It would be very helpful to go if you can. Thanks.

Documentation & Final Critiques

The exhibits look super good everyone!!

I hope that you all have had a chance to see both shows and enjoy them. I hope that you have been able to photograph the works. You will be putting your images and your artist statement on a disc. One disc will be fully identified with your name, title of the work, medium, size, and year. The documentation is due at the final critique on this Friday May 13th.

For example:

1_S.Beatie_Magnificence of Water_Oil_30"x40"_11

2_S.Beatie_Magnificence of Water_Oil_30"x40"_11

3_S.Beatie_Magnificence of Water_Oil_30"x40"_11

The images should be about 4"x6" with a 300 DPI

If you have one work in the exhibit i.e. Christine, Jon, Rebecca and Tiffany, please include multiple views and details.

The other disc that you make should be unidentified by name,and instead you will key it with a number.

Your number is assigned alphabetically and is as follows:

1. Sevetalana 2. Laurie Brooks 3. Tiffany Chase 4. Piper Dean 5. Russ Gilchrist 6. Christine Godfrey 7. Ethan Gullemette 8. Rebecca Juarez 9. Jess Kelly 10. Ryan Kohler 11.Catherine McDade 12. Jon Moro 13.Emily Naples 14. Donna Parkinson 15.Ben Pettengil 16.Paul Philbrook 17.Tanya Russell 18.Lisa Wheeler 19. Barbra Whitten

We will meet this Friday May 13th at 12 noon at the Danforth Gallery to begin the Final Critiques. We will go to the Gannett Gallery second. ALL students need to be at BOTH critiques.

Curatorial Statement

19 Tangents

2011 University of Maine at Augusta Senior Art Exhibit

The culminating art created for the Art 430 Senior Project is as complex and as varied as the students who have created it. Their unique visions have been focusing throughout their careers at the University of Maine at Augusta, but most significantly in their final two capstone semesters. Foundations in such classes as design, art history, philosophy, English, and perhaps even math, have been built upon with individual insight, comment, or challenge.

The goal of this exhibit is to show the strongest, most resolved body of artwork that each student has created thus far. Each student also presents the conceptual basis for their work in an artist statement, and leaves documentation of their accomplishments.

These artists have asked important questions regarding the human social condition, our environment and of ourselves. Some have challenged our complacency; some have celebrated our strengths and the natural world. Others have presented insights regarding human range, intent and relationship. Each artist has answered in his or her particular voice, and has made space and time in their lives and hearts to sift, distil and clarify those things that they find most urgent and compelling. “I know no better communication than art. No better means of saying so precisely those things which need so urgently to be said. It has been a baton handed on to us across centuries and through difference. It is an act of courage.” Jeanette Winterson

Take your intellect, courage, discipline, patience and desire on your journey. You have everything you need.

Karen Adrienne

Professor of Art

Curator

So close ...

The exhibitions are looking super!!

Some notes on the labels...

June said that she would have them done tomorrow (Friday the 6th). I would check in the early afternoon. They are on perforated sheets and should have your name, title, and medium. Ususally I hang them in a consistent place i.e. 42" from the floor, and on a consistent side of the work. Try to agree to what looks best for the majority of the pieces in the show and be as consistent as possible. The goal is to diminish the polka dot effect of labels scattered on the wall, and organize them so the audience knows where to look for/find the label. There is velcro in the drawer of the red tool chest in Danforth. Please use 2 small pieces about 1/4" on the top edge of the label to fix it to the wall.