University Park, PA (PRWEB) April 23, 2014
The shelves in Brooks Oliver’s workspace are filled with dozens of ceramic pieces – a semester’s worth of graduate-level artwork in a neutral palette of grey, blue, black and white. But the hybrid objects, balanced on a fine line amongst sculpture and function, will not remain there for extended. He’s preparing to graduate from Penn State’s College of Visual Arts with a Master of Fine Arts, specializing in ceramics. But just before he leaves Pennsylvania for his next chapter across the nation, he’ll pack up some of his favourite artwork in protective foam cases and trek to Pittsburgh.

“I am interested in displaying men and women how technology can enter the artwork in a way they may possibly by no means have expected,” Oliver stated. “I want to demonstrate how technology can be a tool rather than a final product.”

Oliver, along with two dozen other Penn State undergraduate and graduate students, will contribute artwork to the visual art exhibition, “Digital Hand,” at 709 Penn Gallery in Pittsburgh. The student artists will fill the whole gallery with their function for a month.

“Being an artist is not just about producing the operate,” Oliver mentioned. “It’s also about how you present the function and talk about the work to the public.”

The exhibition, made attainable by The Penn State Center: Engaging Pittsburgh, characteristics original objects created by students participating in ART 397B/497C, also titled “Digital Hand.” It’s a course that explores the sculptural possibilities of digital fabrication. Tom Lauerman, assistant professor of art and location head of the sculpture studio, stated student artists are introduced to 3-D modeling applications and a range of digital fabrication gear including three-D printers, three-D scanners, computer-controlled milling (CNC) machines and laser cutters. Students are encouraged to mix art, craft and style tactics to obtain a layered complexity in their performs.

The exhibition opens in the course of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust’s Gallery Crawl in the city’s Cultural District and most of the students will travel to downtown Pittsburgh on April 25 to interact with members of the basic public in an urban setting. The Gallery Crawl is a totally free event that brings hundreds of people collectively to celebrate art, music and film in a casual setting a number of instances a year.

“The students are employed to being in a classroom or in a critique setting and the Gallery Crawl is genuinely not like either a single of those. This will be a lot more enjoyable,” said Lauerman. “We at times get so critical in class that students may possibly neglect that art can be an fascinating opportunity for interaction with a broader public.”

Fenny Lai craves this out-of-the-classroom knowledge. The senior art major has by no means participated in a gallery installation outside of University Park. She sees this likelihood as professional improvement.

“We are often asked to expand our function so that other folks who aren’t in the University setting can see it,” Lai said. “I want to make connections.”

Deno De Ciantis understands the importance of forging those connections. As director of The Penn State Center: Engaging Pittsburgh, he and his colleagues built the partnership with the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust over time to make this exhibition come about. He stated this genuine globe encounter becomes mutually advantageous to each the students and the men and women of the higher Pittsburgh region.

“It offers the students and faculty access to huge populations of people who appreciate and enjoy art, which is beneficial to an artist,” he mentioned. “The neighborhood also becomes enriched by the students’ enthusiasm and new suggestions.”





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