UNCW Art & Art History Department

UNCW'S DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY & THE CAB ART GALLERY PRESENT:

HERE THERE: (RE)COLLECTING LABOR ON THE AMERICAN RAILWAY

“Here There: (Re)collecting Labor on the American Railway” is a collaborative exhibition by Stefani Bryd, Caroline Louise Miller, and Alarm Will Sound and will open in UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building (CAB) Art Gallery on Tuesday, May 28, 2024.

EXHIBITION DATES: TUESDAY MAY 28 - THURSDAY AUGUST 29, 2024

CLOSING RECEPTION: THURSDAY AUGUST 22, 2024 FROM 5:30 P.M. - 7 P.M.

ARTIST TALK: THURSDAY AUGUST 22, 2024, 5 P.M. CULTURAL ARTS BUILDING IN ROOM 2033

Are you ready for the Reading Day Art Sale today? Come out to support us at the Cultural Arts Building Lobby from 12-3 pm. We have ceramics, prints and more for sale!

The Coaction Lab is honored and excited to be presenting at this year's The Nature of Cities festival in their virtual field trip category. We'll be taking participants on a tour of the retention / detention ponds here in Wilmington, NC and our Retention / Detention project at the Cameron Art Museum focused on helping to keep them in balance Here's a link to the session:
https://sched.co/1Z1NZ

We hope to see you there!

There are limited spots still available in our Intro to 3D Modeling / ART / CSC / FST 220 course, running during the first summer session of 2024.

We’ll be covering a variety of subjects including:
3D Modelling in Maya by Autodesk
3D Textures & Painting in Substance Painter
Compositing in Adobe Photoshop
Export options for Augmented Reality
Limited enrollment spots still available!

This course is required for all DA Majors / Minors and serves as an elective for Studio Art Majors! Art 101 is the only pre-requisite but can be waived by permission of instructor. Please reach out if you have any questions:

[email protected]

University of North Carolina Wilmington’s
“Spring 2024 Studio Art Senior Exhibition”
Opens in UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building Art Gallery with a public reception on Thursday, April 11, 2024, from 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m.

The exhibition will run through Friday, May 10, 2024. Gallery hours are 10 a.m. – 4 p.m., Monday through Friday.
The CAB Art Gallery is in the UNCW Cultural Arts Building, 5270 Randall Drive, Wilmington, NC 28403.

The Spring 2024 Studio Art Senior Exhibition showcases 24 graduating Studio Art students. This show will be hosted in UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building (CAB) Art Gallery and lobby. It is free and open to the public.

Graduating Studio Art Seniors: Andrea Abernathy, Andy Álvarez, Olivia Blain, Ava Blank, Jaylen Blount, Sarah Corcoran, Dinadja Davis, Lucia Dentz Blum, Shannon Dowling, Kelsey Drake, Theresa Dunbar, Erin Gabriel, Madison Gibson, Katherine Hatley, Zavier Mass, Holt Parks, Liz Prechtel, Efren Puente IV, Bailey Roth, Syd Stich, Aleksandra Taylor, Victoria Vidaud, Reagan Williams, Campbell Wynn.
The exhibition will feature a variety of mediums, including painting, photography, sculpture, mixed media, digital illustration, graphic design, installation, ceramics, 3D printing and printmaking.

The Spring 2024 Studio Art Senior Exhibition showcases a dynamic range of styles and techniques that push the boundaries of traditional art forms. Senior Exhibition is a capstone requirement for all UNCW seniors graduating with a major in Studio Art. Join us as we celebrate the students while embracing the limitless possibilities in the world of art.

The CAB Art Gallery is located on UNCW’s campus on the ground floor of the Cultural Arts Building, near the building’s main entrance. Visitors can access the gallery from South College Road or Racine Drive, and parking is available in front of the box office entrance to the building.

For more information visit:
https://uncw.edu/seahawk-life/arts/venues/cultural-arts-building/

Interested media should contact Gallery Director, Keltsey McKoy, at [email protected] or 910.962.3031.

ARTIST TALK POSTPONED TO APRIL 18th!!!

Art & Art History ~ Spring 24’ Visiting Artist ~ Cristin Millett (Cristin Millett)
Artist Talk
Postponed Date: Thursday, April 18th
Time: 5pm
Location: UNCW Cultural Arts Building, Room 2033

Artist website: https://www.cristin-millett.com

The next visiting artist / scholar for our Spring 24’ semester series is Cristin Millett, Multi-disciplinary artist and embedded Faculty Researcher in the Arts + Design Research Incubator and a Professor of Art in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State University.
Straddling traditional disciplinary boundaries, Cristin Millett’s investigations of medicine and its history are integral to her artistic process. As a transdisciplinary artist, her work examines the intersection of art and science, specifically sculptural processes and reproductive futures. Her sculptural objects and installations prompt a contemporary cultural critique of societal issues surrounding reproduction and gender identity. Her artwork has been widely exhibited, including at the Villa Strozzi, Florence; the International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the Exploratorium, San Francisco; and the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia. Millett was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Resident at SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia.

Guess what!?

Fried Fruit Art Gallery is thrilled to announce their newest exhibition:

Process as Orientation featuring alternative photography by artist Susanna Herrmann. Susanna soaks her film rolls in various household substances, drinks, watercolor water and sometime buries them underground. Her work speaks to the delicateness of memory, experiencing something for the first time and active observation.

Here's the scoop:

🍓 Artist Talk
Date: Thursday, April 4
Time: 2pm
Location: Zoom

🍊 OPENING NIGHT
Date: Saturday, April 13
Time: 6-9pm
Location: Fried Fruit Art Gallery (615 S 16th, Wilmington, NC)

🍋 Featuring One-Night-Only meet and greet with artist Susanna Herrmann

ART 371 - Intro to Video Art & Projection Mapping

M/W 6 to 7:50pm
Open to all Majors / Undergraduate & Graduate
Counts as an Art elective & Digital Arts Interactive Graphics concentration
Pre-req is Art 101 but this can be waived by permission of instructor

We will use the mediums of video imagery and projected light to add moving textures and images to sculpture, installation, performance, and architecture and will explore digital story telling beyond the boundaries of the rectangular screen. Beginner to intermediate students are welcome as you do not need experience in any of the software listed below to take this class.

Students will be taught how to create content with Adobe After Effects, Premiere & Media Encoder. Video art will be displayed both onscreen and on non-traditional surfaces both large and small with instruction on how to use video projectors and live video mapping software such as Millumin & Touch Designer.
A core part of this course goes beyond the classroom into our community for applied learning experiences at venues such as the Kresge Greenhouse, the Cargo District / Fried Fruit Gallery and the grounds of the Cameron Art Museum and the annual FlowILM event www.flowilm.com
More info: www.genefelice.com/edu

ART 495 - Time based Media ~ Handmade and Digital 2D Animation

Course # ART 495
FALL 2024 - Mon / Wed 2 to 3:50pm
Open to all Majors ~ Undergrad & Graduate
Counts as an Art elective for Art & Digital Art majors / minors

An introduction to 2D Animation with a mix of handmade and digital techniques.
We’ll explore a variety of methods including:

• Zoetrope: 2D & 3D
• Stop Motion: 3D Printed characters & Laser cut scenes
• Green screen capture
• Rotoscoping - Adobe Animate
• Motion Graphics - Adobe After Effects
• Animations from around the world!

instructor: Gene A. Felice II
[email protected]
www.genefelice.com/edu
www.coactionlab.org

University of North Carolina Wilmington’s “ArtsFest 2024” is an all-day student showcase, held at UNCW’s Cultural Arts Building hosted by the departments of Art and Art History, Creative Writing, Film Studies, Music, and Theatre, with FREE public events scheduled throughout the day beginning at 11 a.m. and ending at 8:00 p.m.



The UNCW’s ArtsFest 2024 celebration will include concerts (Pop/Rock Ensemble, Saxophone quartet, piano, Musical Theatre), creative writing readings (MFA, BFA), film screenings (Flicker, MFA) , PRINTFEST, and dance, improv and theatrical performances, including Shakespeare scenes and the Student Lab show “A Night You Won’t Remember”, all held in the beautiful Cultural Arts Building on UNCW’s campus. In addition, the Musical Theatre Club presents “Ride the Cyclone” the first sustainably sourced student-run musical theatre production at UNCW; 7:30 p.m. outside at the Amphitheater (free).



Please scan the QR code for the full schedule!

Art & Art History ~ Spring 24’ Visiting Artist ~ Cristin Millett (Cristin Millett)

Artist Talk
Date: Thursday, April 4th
Time: 5pm
Location: UNCW Cultural Arts Building, Room 2033

Artist website: https://www.cristin-millett.com


The next visiting artist / scholar for our Spring 24’ semester series is Cristin Millett, Multi-disciplinary artist and embedded Faculty Researcher in the Arts + Design Research Incubator and a Professor of Art in the School of Visual Arts at Penn State University.


Straddling traditional disciplinary boundaries, Cristin Millett’s investigations of medicine and its history are integral to her artistic process. As a transdisciplinary artist, her work examines the intersection of art and science, specifically sculptural processes and reproductive futures. Her sculptural objects and installations prompt a contemporary cultural critique of societal issues surrounding reproduction and gender identity. Her artwork has been widely exhibited, including at the Villa Strozzi, Florence; the International Museum of Surgical Science, Chicago; the Exploratorium, San Francisco; and the Mütter Museum, Philadelphia. Millett was a Fulbright Senior Scholar and Resident at SymbioticA at the University of Western Australia.

We are excited to announce our next exhibition: "Fifty Years of Printmaking", will be a retrospective exhibition of works by Professor Donald Furst.

Furst, who joined the University of North Carolina Wilmington's faculty in 1985, will retire from his teaching career in May 2024.

Be sure to mark your calendars for the opening reception on Thursday, February 29, 2024 from 5:30p.m. - 7 p.m. A public artist talk will be held before the reception beginning at 5 p.m. in UNCW's Cultural Arts Building, Room 2033.

All works in the exhibit are available for purchase.

We look forward to seeing you there!

"Are We On The Same Page" exhibition opens on March 1, 6-9pm. Join us for a one-night-only performance by artists Kit MacNeil and Henry Gepfer on the opening night.

Kit MacNeil and Henry Gepfer are two q***r visual artists using their bodies as exploratory tools to find new avenues to envision printmaking. Oscillating between tragic and comic, this direct mode of performative work allows them to point directly to the tangible and intangible gendered expectations thrust upon them. ***r

"Blood Meal" by Katina Bitsicas and is a collaborative multimedia performance, illustrating the life cycle of an organism by bringing the grotesqueries of organic development into focus. This installation includes documentation and artifacts from the performance. On view until Feb. 19.

UNCW'S DEPARTMENT OF ART AND ART HISTORY & THE CAB ART GALLERY PRESENT:

LIMINAL

BY MEREDITH CONNELLY

ARTIST TALK: THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2024, 5 P.M.
CULTURAL ARTS BUILDING ROOM 2033

OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JANUARY 18, 2024 FROM 5:30 P.M. - 7 P.M.

EXHIBITION DATES: THURSDAY JANUARY 18 - WEDNESDAY FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Come check out what our ceramics students are selling!

UnDisciplined ~ An Arts Faculty Showcase
Friday, November 17th, 6 p.m., Beckwith Recital Hall
Featured the work of:
• Gene Felice / Art & Art History
• Sayantani Dasgupta / Creative Writing
• Andre Silva / Film Studies
• Chelsea Loew / Music
• Mark Sorensen / Theatre Abigail Upshaw, Moderator
• Reception featured a group art project by Andi Steele
Sponsored by CHSSA Dean’s Office

Alumni News coming in from a galaxy far, far away! Not long after graduating, Cameron Detig (BA '21 with a dual major in Film Studies and Computer Science with a Digital Art Focus) had the opportunity to work as a previs artist on the recent Star Wars series, Ahsoka, at the renowned visualization studio, The Third Floor. The position involved building sequences in 3D animation to help plan out action, shot choices, and editing to later be used as reference for filming. Previs is similar in intention to storyboarding, but to a far higher degree. Cameron worked on sequences across the series ranging from dialogue scenes to lightsaber duels and space battles. He reports that he learned much from his supervisor and members of the previs team and the notes given by directors, cinematographers, and editors.
To get to work on Star Wars was an amazing experience for Cameron and he remains at The Third Floor working on other exciting projects. Congratulations, Cameron!

For the second year in a row, the Kresge Greenhouse has collaborated with the UNCW Art & Art History Department to bring the campus community another light-based art show event! The day will begin with a small plant sale in front of the greenhouse Wednesday November 15th from 11 a.m.–2 p.m

From 6:30 to 8pm our Video Projection Mapping students will be creating a light and sound-based art installation inside and outside the greenhouse, focused on the variety of plants grown in the space.

Please come out, purchase a plant and see what our students have created this year!

Please join us Thursday, November 16, 2023 for the opening reception of "Fall 2023 Senior Exhibition” from 5:30 p.m. – 7 p.m. at the CAB Art Gallery.

The Fall 2023 Senior Exhibition showcases 15 graduating Studio Art students. This juried show will be hosted at the Cultural Arts Building Gallery and lobby and is free and open to the public.

Graduating seniors include: Tabatha Abbott, Kim Blankenburg, Kait Carpenter, Ash Carroll, Curren Conner, Leah Davies, Jared Dodson, Trey Glover, Cooper Grant, Hayley Hornaday, Harper Hunt, Elyse Kiel, Amanda Kortan, Jessica McLellan, and Gavin Musty. The Senior Art Exhibition is a capstone requirement for UNCW seniors graduating with a degree in Studio Art.

The artists’ work range in mediums such as pastels, acrylic painting, foam sculpture, ceramics, photography, printmaking, illustrations, graphic design, and mixed media.
The exhibition features a variety of subjects ranging from scenes of nature to self-portraits, as well as fashion designs, dream-scapes, and story-book illustrations.

UnDisciplined

An Arts Faculty Showcase

Friday, November 17th,
6 p.m.,
Beckwith Recital Hall

Featuring
Gene Felice / Art & Art History
Sayantani Dasgupta / Creative Writing
Andre Silva / Film Studies
Chelsea Loew / Music
Mark Sorensen / Theatre Abigail Upshaw, Moderator
Reception to follow, featuring a group art project by Andi Steele
Sponsored by CHSSA Dean’s Office