Masquerade: verb 1. To pretend to be someone one is not. This Monday I attended art department chair Kathryn Sheilds’ lecture tackling the issue of identity and masks. A handful of students as well as faculty gathered in the Hege Library art gallery to learn about masquerade and contemporary photography. In a fifteen minute lecture Kathryn examined the theme of identity in several photographers’ work- Diane Arbus, Cindy Sherman, Kimiko Yoshida, Nikki S. Lee, Gillian Wearing, and Jillian Mayer.Read more
Be Obsessed, Find Your Focus~~Art After Guilford
As a second semester junior for whom senior year is creeping up way too fast, I went into the Art After Guilford event with a fair amount of excitement but an even larger amount of existential angst. I have no idea where I’m going with my art or my life when I leave college. Would these alumni have any advice for this young artist who has no direction in life? Art After Guilford is put together every year to giveRead more
Spring!
Hand/Eye is springing back into action with a few staff changes this semester. Joining veteran Hand/Eye writer Juliet Magoon are junior art majors Kate Mitchell and Brianna Parker. Juliet is a senior double major in photography and environmental studies currently working on her thesis. Kate’s focus in art is printmaking, with a minor in writing. Brianna’s focusRead more
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