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The project, described as an “ongoing essay about the presence and function of Blackness in society,” originally began in 2004 and will add 22 new pieces this spring for an on-campus installation in early April.
Date Time Full month of events on tap for Black History Month “Dance Dance” is the featured image for 2021 MU Black History Month Committee. The art is a piece from Jessica Thorton, an assistant professor in the School of Visual Studies in the College of Arts and Science. From explorations of Black joy to Blackness in the Americas and the diaspora, this month the University of Missouri will take a deep dive into Black culture and Black history during its celebration of Black History Month. The theme for this year’s series of plays, lectures, panel discussions and other events is “Blac...
The new Lexington mural "Imagine Nation" is the brainchild of art students in UK's Guerilla Arts course. Photo by Lee Ann Paynter. “We knew we wanted to do a mural project and discussed it early on in the semester. We scouted some locations that were offered to us, and continued looking. Aaron Abbott (a Lexington digital design media senior) noticed this wall on Emmaline Lane on his way to school one day, and realized it was a great location for our mural and he actually knows the owner! It was really Aaron's connection to Mr. Queen that got us this great location,” said Lee Ann Paynte...
SA/VS students Michael Lozovoy, Emma Wagner and Thomas Arney pose in front of the completed mural. “We knew we wanted to do a mural project and discussed it early on in the semester. We scouted some locations that were offered to us, and continued looking. Aaron Abbott (a Lexington digital design media senior) noticed this wall on Emmaline Lane on his way to school one day, and realized it was a great location for our mural and he actually knows the owner! It was really Aaron's connection to Mr. Queen that got us this great location,” said Lee Ann Paynter, lecturer in digital media fo...
Natalie J. Gale â21 spent the first half of her studio art class training to handle equipment that she never got the chance to use. Instead, she found herself constructing a soldering workshop in her garage to produce the stained glass art she had hoped to create on campus. A joint concentrator in History and Literature and Art, Film, and Visual Studies, Gale feels campusâs absence through the artistic spaces she often occupied. âI really miss this one room in the Carpenter Center where you can just camp out for 12 hours and just print photos,â she says. In March, Gale swa...