Month-long faculty art exhibit opens in Peeler
By: Amelia Hill
Issue date: 9/2/08 Section: Features
Instructing students can be a typical perception of a faculty member, but some use their nonteaching hours to create works of art. An exhibition of faculty pieces opened Aug. 27, when students, faculty and Greencastle residents crowded into the Peeler Art Center to see and hear the faculty of the art department discuss and explain their paintings, sculptures and two-dimensional pieces.
The faculty art exhibition takes place only once every two years and all faculty, including part-time faculty members, are encouraged to participate. Many enjoy participating because they find it is an interesting way to show their students what they have been working on outside of teaching their classes.
Lori Miles, assistant professor of art, is going on her fifth year of teaching sculpture at DePauw, and this year debuted her three-dimensional sculpture called "Being Seen in My Rearview Mirror" and her two-dimensional faux forgeries.
Miles said that faux forgeries are unintentional artist knockoffs that she found on stock photography Web sites. They are intended to look fake and being a sculpture teacher, Miles thought it would be fun to experiment with something different from her usual three-dimensional sculptures.
"Being Seen in My Rearview Mirror," dealt with the idea of the space between things. A lot of her work deals with the blurring between disciplines.
Miles said that the world of sculpture is different than the painting world because in the world of sculpture people are subject to the same things that they are subjected to in human life. Sculpture occupies the same space that humans occupy in a different way than a painting would.
Barbara Timm, part-time assistant professor of art, introduced her paintings that were inspired by the quarry in the Nature Park.
She explained how her paintings "are about process, about taking an existing landscape and stretching it. There is always the possibility of what might happen."
Her painting titled, "Spring Calling Frogs" was painted on three canvases using three different mediums. The canvases were placed side by side on the display wall to form a larger painting and a larger idea. It is a painting that uses each separate canvas to show how Winter turns into Spring.
Junior art major Travis LaMothe said he attended the opening night of the exhibit because he thought it was a good opportunity to see the work that the faculty does outside of the classroom. He said he believes it is also a good way for art students to meet the new additions to the faculty.
"I believe that art is a personal thing," LaMothe said. "I want to know more about the people who I'm getting instruction from. I want to know where they are coming from."
The exhibit is free and will be open to the public until Sept. 28.
The faculty art exhibition takes place only once every two years and all faculty, including part-time faculty members, are encouraged to participate. Many enjoy participating because they find it is an interesting way to show their students what they have been working on outside of teaching their classes.
Lori Miles, assistant professor of art, is going on her fifth year of teaching sculpture at DePauw, and this year debuted her three-dimensional sculpture called "Being Seen in My Rearview Mirror" and her two-dimensional faux forgeries.
Miles said that faux forgeries are unintentional artist knockoffs that she found on stock photography Web sites. They are intended to look fake and being a sculpture teacher, Miles thought it would be fun to experiment with something different from her usual three-dimensional sculptures.
"Being Seen in My Rearview Mirror," dealt with the idea of the space between things. A lot of her work deals with the blurring between disciplines.
Miles said that the world of sculpture is different than the painting world because in the world of sculpture people are subject to the same things that they are subjected to in human life. Sculpture occupies the same space that humans occupy in a different way than a painting would.
Barbara Timm, part-time assistant professor of art, introduced her paintings that were inspired by the quarry in the Nature Park.
She explained how her paintings "are about process, about taking an existing landscape and stretching it. There is always the possibility of what might happen."
Her painting titled, "Spring Calling Frogs" was painted on three canvases using three different mediums. The canvases were placed side by side on the display wall to form a larger painting and a larger idea. It is a painting that uses each separate canvas to show how Winter turns into Spring.
Junior art major Travis LaMothe said he attended the opening night of the exhibit because he thought it was a good opportunity to see the work that the faculty does outside of the classroom. He said he believes it is also a good way for art students to meet the new additions to the faculty.
"I believe that art is a personal thing," LaMothe said. "I want to know more about the people who I'm getting instruction from. I want to know where they are coming from."
The exhibit is free and will be open to the public until Sept. 28.
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