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-26 posts tagged "Art"
Nora McGreevy | Thursday, April 26, 2018
A giant, lurid video projection of the sun flickers and pulsates against a blank wall. Detailed posters and life-sized models of grocery store shelves present informative graphics about food insecurity. An interactive app encourages users to take a deep breath. A mounted deer head wears a muzzle, an earring, and a ripped “The Doors” band
Nora McGreevy | Wednesday, March 7, 2018
Finding the Scholz Family Gallery in the Snite Museum of Art can be a bit tricky the first time around. Enclosed by glass and nestled next to the coat room, this smaller, more intimate gallery feels a bit unanchored from the rest of the museum. Inside the gallery, the lights are dimmed, and the echoes
Nora McGreevy | Friday, February 2, 2018
Small, cartoonish bubbles float across a bright green field of color, interlaced with wiggly sketches of leaves, seedlings and stems. In another work, strong black markings repeat in rhythmic curves and slashes. On yet another wall, an anguished, woman-like skeletal figure hangs from a thread attached to her bellybutton, her mouth gaping wide as though
Courtney Becker | Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Visiting design lecturer Brook Kennedy spoke about the value of drawing from the environment for ideas in the field of industrial design Monday during a talk sponsored by the Art, Art History and Design program at Notre Dame. Kennedy, an associate professor of industrial design at Virginia Tech, said his work primarily focuses on solving
Charlotte Edmonds | Monday, January 22, 2018
The Snite Museum of Art opened two new exhibits this past Friday: “Money Worries” and “Modern Women’s Prints”. They are on display in the special exhibition O’Shaughnessy galleries through March. “When deciding our curatorial calendar we always consider the current conversations in society,” Gina Costa, director of public relations and marketing, said. “Artists don’t live
Charlotte Edmonds | Tuesday, November 7, 2017
Visual artist Sandra Ramos discussed the effects mass immigration have on culture and society Monday night at the Hesburgh Center. The Cuban native spoke to faculty and students about how her own experience is reflected through her career and the various different forms it has taken on over time. Ramos shared her background with the power
Selena Ponio | Thursday, October 12, 2017
The Notre Dame Center for Arts and Culture, located in South Bend, seeks to educate people through art, culture and community engagement. Associate director of community relations Jackie Rucker said the South Bend community created the idea. “We conducted surveys in the community to find out if Notre Dame had a facility in the west
Grace Weissend | Monday, October 2, 2017
To commemorate the 175th anniversary of the University’s founding, the Snite Museum of Art is displaying their extensive collection of original Rembrandt etchings. Art collectors and Elkhart residents Jack and Alfrieda Feddersen first loaned the collection of Rembrandt prints to the Snite in conjunction with the museum’s new building opening in 1981. The Feddersens officially donated the
Kelli Smith | Friday, August 25, 2017
After five years of construction, the Snite Museum of Art will be reopening a public sculpture park on the south side of campus Friday. Themed “Reclaiming our Nature,” the Charles B. Hayes Family Sculpture Park features a myriad of acclaimed sculptures situated in an outdoor exhibition stretching across Edison Road. Director of the Snite Museum
Mike Donovan | Wednesday, April 26, 2017
If you were to take a tour of my headspace, you’d probably get lost in the vast collection of pop culture references, meticulously organized to describe the effects of hopeless romanticism and sporadic solipsism on my otherwise pleasant life. At the end of the tour, you’d wonder why I would spend so much time thinking