UNE Art Students Participate in Biddeford Arts Invasion

Art works and installations by University of New England students enrolled in courses in the Creative and Fine Arts Department were on display in the Hallway Gallery of Biddeford's North Dam Mills complex and other venues for two weeks beginning Sept. 25, 2009.

The exhibition and installation are examples of the types of opportunities that the Department of Creative and Fine Arts take to engage students and display student art work in the community and region.

Five courses exhibited four instructor-led projects that were created entirely by the students. Students enrolled in Adjunct Instructor Andy Rosen's Sculpture I course assisted the artist/instructor in creating a new sculpture/installation devised by the artist.

Assistant Professor Sarah Gorham’s Painting I students will be exhibiting their personal investigations of process in landscape painting in an installation entitled the Anatomy of a Painting.

Assistant Professor Stephen Burt’s Drawing I students are each creating personal crests or coats of arms that will become part of a larger single installation investigating identity and meaning.

Rosen (one of this year's Portland's Museum of Art's Biennial artists) is creating an installation with the assistance of his Sculpture I students.

Adjunct Instructor Deborah Randall’s Drawing I class is creating a series of large-scale silhouettes inspired by the contemporary artist Kara Walker.

Students have been learning essential studio practice, refining ideas through critique and group discussion as well as the nuts and bolts of planning, assembling, and installing an exhibit.  Download a poster.