For a number of years, the year-end thesis exhibition by students enrolled in Advanced Study in Drawing and Painting, a two-semester course in the Fine Arts, Theatre Arts and Digital Media Department, traveled to Art Omi in Ghent in early June for a weekend-long showing in its Education Pavilions.
The coronavirus pandemic prevents this tradition from continuing in 2020, but has not severed the connection that Fine Arts Professor Thomas Lail established with Art Omi which has dedicated a page of its website to “The Before, The After and In Between,” this year’s exhibit.
“The Before, The After and In Between” and two other end-of-year student exhibitions were mounted only virtually this year in a whirlwind collaborative effort on the part of the students who created the work, the faculty members who guided them, and web developers in the college’s ITS department who built an attractive and easy-to-navigate, online experience. It all came together in a few short weeks; a labor fueled by optimism for a better tomorrow.
Art Omi is a not-for-profit arts center with a 120-acre sculpture and architecture park, gallery, and residency programs for international artists, writers, translators, musicians, architects and dancers. The Columbia County park is open to visitors, but under strict guidelines due to the pandemic.
Published: Thu, 21 May 2020 12:00:04 +0000 by d.gardner