February 27, 2013: An artist’s talk by painter Linden Frederick, 4:15 p.m., Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College.
February 27, 2013: An artist’s talk by painter Linden Frederick, 4:15 p.m., Beam Classroom, Visual Arts Center, Bowdoin College.
Isabelle Smeets, Dutch Artist and member of BIOMODD (NYC4).
She will talk about her involvement with BIOMODD, a multifaceted socially engaged art installation that finds meaningful relationships between biology, computers and people. On the most basic level, Biomodd creates symbiotic relationships between plants and computers, and ignites conversations among the community around them. Another project she will discuss is a conceptual architectural project called “A Watchtower of Nothingness.”
The event is co-sponsored by the Art, Biology and Computer Science Departments and the Environmental Studies Program.
Artist’s talk: Isabelle Smeets
October 15, 20124:15 PM – 6:00 PM
Visual Arts Center, Beam Classroom
Artist’s Talk: Katherine Bradford
Lecture – Evolving Printmaker: Liz Chalfin September 24, 2012
Liz Chalfin is director of Zea Mays Printmaking in Florence, Massachusetts, a studio dedicated to safer and non-toxic printmaking. The imagery in her prints and books explores social, spiritual, and psychological issues through the use of figuration and abstraction. She will talk about her work as an evolving printmaker and studio director. FREE.
SPONSORED BY the Marvin Bileck Printmaking Project at Bowdoin College.
A Day, a deconstructed book of observations on a single day, 2012, intaglio prints, and a detail of a single page spread. Photo by Stephen Petegorsky.
Monday, September 24 at 4:15
Beam Classroom, VAC
Bowdoin College
Lecture – Evolving Printmaker: Liz Chalfin September 24, 2012
Dave Fogler ’90 – Visiting Artist
April Vollmer is an expert in traditional Moku Hanga, or Japanese woodblock printing, technique. She brought Japanese prints with her to illustrate the history of Moku Hanga. She described the various functions of these prints in society while explaining the advancements in technique that occurred over the centuries.
This visit came to professor Carrie Scanga’s Printmaking I course just after students completed their first series of woodblock prints, cut and printed with the Western method and tools, and designed in the style of the German Expressionists. The Western and Japanese methods for carving and printing are very different. The Japanese method is quite complex, but it allows artists to make amazing uses of color. Her visit gave students the opportunity to learn about the Japanese tools and methods for carving a woodblock, and the students got to create prints from antique carved woodblocks.
Gregory Witt – Spoke and visited Sculpture 1 and Sculpture 2 with John Bisbee.
A recent graduate of the MFA program at Carnegie Mellon University’s School of Art, and a participant in this summer’s Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Gregory Witt has been living and making art in Pittsburgh since 2006. Following short- lived majors ranging from computer science to philosophy, Greg spent most of his near- decade-long undergraduate career at Indiana University building boats and bicycles and digging in the trash, eventually earning a BFA in sculpture in 2005. Apart from the occasional river trip, Greg has spent most of the last five years making electromechanical sculptures that expose unseen realities and ridiculous fantasies of real and made-up natures.