In Full Bloom: A Floral Fantasy being featured at A&M s University Art Galleries
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COLLEGE STATION, TX â The Forsyth Galleries at Texas A&M has a new art exhibition with many pieces of art on display featuring visually lighthearted artwork serving as a reminder that spring has arrived.
In Full Bloom: A Floral Fantasy, features 19th and 20th-century artwork of floral depictions in quilts, paintings, decorative glass, metal, and ceramic objects to show springtime in full bloom. In addition, the pieces chosen are intended to provide visitors with a sense of relief after the previous year of uncertainty as a result of the pandemic.
and art to create an immersive experience.
Assistant professor of graphic design and co-curator of the gallery James Quigley has been practicing letterpress since 2012. Quigley said when he was contacted for the gallery, he used the opportunity to reach out to pros in the letterpress community.
“I reached out to people I knew and people I didn’t know who work in the letterpress industry,” Quigley said, “And to my delight, they all said yes.”
Of the artists showcased, Lead Graffiti and Jen Farrell from Starshaped Press are just some of the prominent U.S. artists featured. Letterpress printing includes many different styles which are embraced in the community.
As a safer alternative to international travel during the pandemic, a new exhibition in the Stark Galleries allows students to learn about diverse cultures through a broad range of artwork.
The J. Wayne Stark Galleries opened the âArmchair Travel: Exploring International Art and Artists from the Permanent Collectionâ exhibit on Thursday, Jan. 21 and will be available until Wednesday, March 10.
Director of the University Art Galleries Catherine Hastedt said there are two reasons why she decided to display this collection.
âWeâre in the midst of COVID[-19], so I wanted people to be able to travel sort of, ⦠even though they canât visit those countries,â Hastedt said. âWhen weâve done international art before, itâs always been appreciated by the visitors and the students because they say, âIt was so nice to see artwork from my country.ââ
It came in response to death.
Bridget Cooks, an associate professor of African American studies and art history at UC Irvine, said in an interview Saturday that the idea for what is now “The Black Index,” an exhibition of works from six different artists that debuted Thursday, rose from an essay that she’d written for a textbook released just last year called “A Companion to Contemporary Drawing.”
The essay focused on the efforts of featured artists Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar and Whitfield Lovell, whose work Cooks felt were invested in the beauty and survival of Black people. She gave a talk on her essay at Hunter College in New York about two years ago and was approached by Sarah Watson, the chief curator at Hunter College Art Galleries, to turn it into an exhibition.
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