by President | May 10, 2019 | Undergraduate 2019
Artist’s Statement Being born in the 90’s Levi’s earliest experiences with art were through Looney Tunes, animated Disney movies, rock and roll album covers and books like the Berenstain bears and I SPY. Nowadays Levi is inspired by everyday life in this...
Louise Fisher
Arizona State University
Master of Fine Arts
by President | May 10, 2019 | Graduate 2019
Artist’s Statement While day allows for productivity, night affords us contemplation, privacy, silence, intimacy, and most importantly—rest. There I find refuge in the infinite feeling of space and humility in the face of the stars. In post-industrial society,...
Melissa Donlon
Kansas State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts
by President | May 10, 2019 | Undergraduate 2019
Artist’s Statement Saudade is a Portuguese term that is used to describe a deep emotional state of longing for an absent thing or person that one loves. It acknowledges that the person or object of longing might never return. Moreover it is the appreciation for...
Lu Colby
Murray State University
Bachelor of Fine Arts
by President | May 10, 2019 | Undergraduate 2019
Artist’s Statement According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, on an average day, women spent more than twice as much time preparing food and drink and doing interior cleaning, and over three times as much time doing laundry as men did. However, with...
Tia Nichols
University of Virginia
Bachelor of Arts
by President | May 6, 2019 | Undergraduate 2019
Artist’s Statement What does it mean to be endangered? To be, but only to an extent? To live, but only as though there were no tomorrow? If swiftly googled, endangered species are “anyone or anything whose continued existence is threatened.” What if you were...
Carly Zimmerman
University of Akron
Bachelor of Fine Arts
by President | May 3, 2019 | Undergraduate 2019
Artist’s Statement The damage is done; the storm has passed. What is left now is all that matters. Picking myself up, I begin to work. The memory of place. Memories of shapes, colors, textures, smells, and presence. Remnants repurposed. I seek peace, distance...