Screen-print and mixed media artwork submitted by UA Print & Book member, Myles Moyé.
(Photo By Kayla Acevedo)
By Kayla Acevedo
TUSCALOOSA, Ala. – UA’s Department of Art and Art History is hosting its first ever Student Art Club Exhibition from Oct.10-25 in the Stella-Granata Art Gallery, showcasing art by different UA art clubs.
The exhibition contained art from a mixture of 44 graduate and undergraduate students in participating clubs at UA including Alabama Print & Book Club, General Art Club, and Crimson Clay. The art executed through various methods such as lithography, the process of printing from a flat surface treated so as to repel the ink except where it is required for printing; linocut, a cut made from a design cut into linoleum mounted on a block of wood; screen print, forcing ink or metal on to a surface through a prepared screen of fine material to create a picture or pattern; watercolor, painting made with a water-soluble binder and thinned with water rather than oil, wood cut, an artist carves an image into the surface of a block of wood, acrylic, a quick-drying, water-soluble kind of paint, ink, drawing or writing with a pen, brush, or quill, dry point etching, technique where an image is incised into a plate with a hard-pointed needle, colored pencil, stoneware, a ceramic made primarily from stoneware clay or non-refractory fire clay, and digital media and animation.
UA junior Anna Pollard and senior Ashley Livingston, both members of the Alabama Print & Book Club, showcasing their art this year said the purpose of this exhibit was to “Display art from student art clubs and mostly trying to get more students involved.” The exhibit carried a variety of art forms including the works done by Pollard and Livingston. Pollard said “I am printmaking major and for one of my classes. I did a lot of these geckos, and I liked how it turned out and being in the club they gave us free realm to submit whatever we wanted and I felt very confident in my piece.” Both explained their drive and motivation for art saying they each mainly work and create for themselves to be able to learn and grow as artists. Livingston said, “It is a great way to express creativity in things I am interested in.” When speaking about her piece a screen print and lino cut of a Basilosaurus, the Alabama state fossil, from her collection on Alabama state history.
The exhibit was held free to the public Monday through Wednesday from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. and Friday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. from October 10 through the 25 in the Sella-Granata Art Gallery, which is located in Woods Hall room 109.
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