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Department of Art
PO Box 1510
Pembroke, NC 28372
Phone: 910.521.6216
Fax: 910.521.6639
Email: art@uncp.edu
Location: Locklear Hall
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News and Events
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Posted November 11, 2009
Printmaking professor Brandon Sanderson conducted
a week-long visiting artist workshop at the University of Texas of the
Permian Basin from October 11th to the 17th.
As a visiting printmaker, he supervised students in the production of
a color plate lithographic edition of 60, a monochromatic stone lithographic
edition of 20, and two editions of etchings. Each of the 10 student assistants
received at least one of Sanderson's prints. Between printing, Sanderson
conducted presentations, critiques, and demonstrations for both art and
general education students. Sanderson extends his thanks to Professors
Kiran and Stanley for hosting the workshop at UTPB. UTPB's art department
may be viewed here.
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Memory Bomb is People's
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Posted November 6, 2009
Adam Walls’ "Memory Bomb" has been selected as the winner of the People's Choice Award in Bristol's Art in Public Places 2009-2010 competition. Click here to read the entire story.
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Lightfoot |
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Posted November 6, 2009
Dr. Tulla Lightfoot has been elected to serve as the Higher Education Division Representative to the North Carolina Art Education Association.
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Hopper |
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Posted November 6, 2009
Janette Hopper’s “ Face War”
has been published in Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today.
This book is the result of a juried exhibit that has traveled around the
country and is slated to go next to London.
Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today is a major collection
of contemporary politically and socially engaged printmaking. This full
color book showcases print art that uses themes of social justice and
global equity to engage community members in political conversation. Based
on an art exhibition which has traveled to a dozen cities in North America,
Paper Politics features artwork by over 200 international artists; an
eclectic collection of work by both activist and non-activist printmakers
who have felt the need to respond to the monumental trends and events
of our times.
Click
here for more information about the book.
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Drive By Press Workshop Landing at UNCP |
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Posted September 8, 2009
The UNCP Art Department will host Drive By
Press from November 16 to 17, 2009. Drive By Press was created in 2005
when two artists and printmakers, Greg Nanney and Joseph Velasquez, met
in graduate school and made it their mission to share their enthusiasm
for printmaking with audiences everywhere. Before they could start, the
two artists sold their art, pawned their guitars, amps, and all else but
their souls in order to buy their printing press. They loaded the 600
pound 14th-century style machine in the back of their vehicle and took
off across the country and have been on the road ever since. The two,
dubbed kings of DIY printmaking, have now traveled over 100,000 miles
spreading ink and their style of guerilla art making at events across
America.
During the workshop, Joseph Velasquez and Ryan O'Malley will show their
artistic prowess by drawing and carving several exclusive single color
woodblock designs exclusive to Drive by Press. Guests are then able to
interact with the DBP during the printing process, selecting their own
combination of color and placement of the designs. Each help create their
very own piece of one-of-a-kind wearable art. The workshop will also include
lectures on the history of DBP and printmaking and presentations from
the DBP collection of original art. There will be individual student critiques
and a variety of printmaking demonstrations.
DBP has worked over 160 events from coast to coast, ranging from parties
with bands like Spoon, BRMC, Chromeo, Louis 14th, Dark Angels, White Rabbits,
The Walkmen, and Pepper, to art exhibitions, University events, and outdoor
music festivals. DBP has exhibited thousands of pieces of art in the form
of prints and has made over 10,000 pieces of unique wearable art along
the way. The UNCP DBP workshop will begin in Locklear Hall, Room 101,
Printmaking Studio, on November 16th at 10 AM and will continue until
4 PM on November 17, and is free and open to the public. This will be
the 2nd visit that DBP has made to UNCP. For more information, contact
UNCP printmaking professor Brandon Sanderson at 910.521.6406 or at brandon.sanderson@uncp.edu.
Visit the DBP website at www.drivebypress.com.
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Benjamin Sandness Visiting |
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Posted September 2, 2009
Benjamin Sandness of Washington State University will conduct a week-long series of visiting artist workshops and lectures in the UNCP Printmaking Studios, Locklear Hall, Room 101A from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. from September 15th to 21st. He will be supervising the students in the printing of an large intaglio and collograph edition. All students, faculty, and community members are welcome. For more information, contact Professor Brandon Sanderson at brandon.sanderson@uncp.edu or by telephone at 910-521-6406.
Biography
Benjamin Sandness was born and raised in Sioux City, Iowa. Working his
way through high school and college in various labor, technology, and
printing related trades, he is a builder and tech guru at heart. These
interests have a strong influence on his approach to art making.
Sandness studied Printmaking at the University of South Dakota for 2 years
under Lloyd Menard and later received his B.F.A. from Saint Cloud State
University in Minnesota with a double emphasis in Printmaking and Drawing.
He is currently an M.F.A. candidate at Washington State University with
an emphasis in Printmaking, Drawing, and Sculpture. At WSU, Sandness is
currently teaching his 3rd semester of Intro to Printmaking and has taught
one semester of Intro to Visual Concepts. Sandness’s work has been
exhibited in 26 solo, group, or juried exhibitions. He has participated
in 7 print exchanges and has work in 5 public collections. Sandness has
also coordinated Mail Bonding, a collaborative postal art project, since
2006. For more information about the artist, visit his website at www.bensandness.com
Artist's Statement
My present body of work is fueled by the question, “Am I more than
the sum of my parts?” I have begun to look separately at my consciousness,
roles, decisions, possessions, creations, consumption, faults, burdens,
and worries. This work becomes a quest for self definition as I move beyond
just inventorying these personal qualities to create images and objects
that depict my experience of these qualities.
In my current work, I focus on identifying and depicting the experience
of my worries. I make drawings and prints that depict the things I find
myself worrying about. The images often include every-day objects as metaphors
for the tension or conflict inherent to my worries. I focus on an emotive
use of line, color, and texture as I develop these images. The subject
matter and mark making work together to communicate to the viewer a sense
of tension. As a result, the viewer is left with the same uneasiness that
I experience through my worries.
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Sanderson |
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Posted September 3, 2009
Printmaking professor Brandon Sanderson has exhibited in 36 juried, invitation group, or international exhibitions in 2009. He has also participated in 8 print exchange portfolios. 5 of his prints were displayed at the 2009 Southern Graphics Council Conference in Chicago, IL.
Selected Exhibitions:
Small But Well-Read: Ex-Libris and the Global Implications of Contemporary
Political Discourse (Southern Graphics Council Exchange Portfolio),
Studio 101, Chicago, IL, 2009
Grudge Match IV: Bastards vs. Dirties (Southern Graphics Conference), Happy Dog Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
Satisfaction Town (Southern Graphics Conference), Columbia College, Chicago, IL, 2009
Man Overboard (Southern Graphics Conference), Reason Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2009
National Invitational Postcard Exhibition, Multiple Venues:
Woodbury Art Museum, Utah Valley University, Orem, UT, 2009
City of Las Vegas, Department of Cultural Affairs, Las Vegas, NV, 2009
Post Tractatus: Art in Amazonia, Exhibitions in Peru, Columbia, and Brazil (Curated Traveling Invitational), 2009
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Walls |
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Posted September 2, 2009
The sculpture of Professor Adam Walls is featured in many year round exhibitions.
Art
in Place, Charlottesville, VA
Art
in Public Places, Bristol, TN/VA
Cary Visual Arts
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Cary, NC
9th
Annual Florida Outdoor Sculpture Competition Winter Haven, FL
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Walls
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Posted September 2, 2009
The sculpture of Professor Adam Walls and
his students, Kristina Henderson, Barbara Edwards, John Fisher, Johnion
Hunt, and Teena Sellers, was exhibited at Cape Fear Studios July 24th
– August 26th. The exhibit featured steel, wood, and plaster cast
forms
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NMC
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Posted September 2, 2009
For the fourth time, the NMC featured Poster
Sessions offered an
opportunity to showcase a campus or member project. This year the
Poster Sessions were held on Thursday, June 11th. The posters were
judged by a group of peer jurors, with the winners announced during
the event.
The UNCP Digital Academy team members presented two posters at the
annual NMC Summer conference this year. From Broadcasting/Mass
Communication, Mr. George Johnson presented a 36" X48" poster
entitled, “Creating A Multi-Camera Music Video (Almost
Single-Handedly)” and, from the Art department, Dr. J.A. Labadie
&
Professor M.B. Labadie presented a 36"X96" poster entitled,
“Digital
Media Through Transmedia Processes.”
The 2009 Poster Sessions presenters were from the following
institutions: ARTSTOR, Case Western Reserve University, University of
Texas Austin, the University of North Carolina Pembroke, California
State University Monterey Bay, Tulane University, University of
Maryland Baltimore County, Rochester Institute of Technology, Journal
of Virtual Worlds and Education, University of Pennsylvania,
Universitat Oberta De Catalunya (Spain), and Rice University.
After a two-hour public viewing and a closed-door jurying process the
awards for the posters were announced. The Labadie’s poster was
awarded the “Best of Show/People’s Choice” blue ribbon
for this year’s
Poster activity.
The DA team (George Johnson, M.B. Labadie, J.A. Labadie & Dr. Larry
Arnold) also presented a peer-reviewed workshop entitled, “National
&
International Presentations Through Videoconferencing: Examples &
Lessons.”
Updated: Wednesday, November 11, 2009
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