[huge_it_gallery id=”2″]ROCK SPRINGS – Western Wyoming Community College Art Gallery presents Cutting Up, the work of Fall semester’s Art students’ classes, December 5 2014 through August 15th 2015. The show opens with a reception and ceramic sale on Friday December 5 at 4:30 pm. “This show exhibits the best of what was accomplished over the course of the semester art program” according to gallery director and Professor of Art Florence McEwin.
Thes classes within the program include all levels of Ceramics and Sculpture I under the instruction of Bart Fetz and Design : 2D, Drawing I ,Painting I under Florence McEwin, Professsor of Art. In addition,the Photography I course work taught by adjunct Paul NG and Visiting Colorado Artist Jean Gumpper’s Workshop in Color Reduction Wood Prints will be included.
Photography I deals with the traditional Black and White of wet lab processing, in which the student learns to comprehend the technique and visual vocabulary of grey values. Design: 2D, the basis for any fine or applied arts major, is also achromatic and is taught almost exclusively in black and white. Drawing I introduces line quality and the multiple tools of making. Painting I begins in black and white for an understanding of value and progresses to color by mid-semester. Ceramics, which is based on the understanding of clay, consists either of wheel-thrown or hand-built construction, and sculpture involves the study of form within space.
The Color Reduction Wood Block Print Workshop was conducted within an intensive three-day format in October. Contrary to the Japanese woodblock print, which is done on multiple blocks of wood, each a separate color and registration, the reduction wood block print is done as one block and then, as each color is printed, that space is removed in a reduction method. The one block is then registered multiple times to complete the print edition.
Western offers an art program that is an equivalent foundation of study to the first two years at any four- year institution nationwide. Students continue their education after Western as majors in the fields of design or fine arts, including as education or graphics majors.
“Western offers an art foundation that is an equivalent program of study to all four year institutes nationwide. Students go on from Western as majors in design or fine art fields including education and graphics. “The purpose of the program is to guide students in their future choices within the arts , develop their technique and expand their inspirations”, according to Dr. Florence McEwin. The end of the semester show offers an opportunity for students to install their work in the art gallery to be viewed over an extended period of time.
The opening reception is free and all are encouraged to attend. Works may be purchased or simply admired. The Ceramic sale which takes place in the lobby by the art gallery offers beginning to expert student works, the sale of which goes to the department and the student for expenses. The work will be on display until August of 2015.
For more information on “Cutting Up” or the Ceramics sale, contact Professor Florence McEwin at fmcewin@wwcc.wy.edu.