The annual tradition offers students and the public an opportunity to see why Herberger College School of Art faculty have garnered such prestigious awards as the Fulbright and the Guggenheim, and exhibit their work in galleries from New York to St. Petersburg, Russia. A public reception from p. Drawing from such a diverse range of specialty areas, the faculty exhibition features something for everyone. Stephen Marc is known for the photographic collages he creates digitally.
The Awakened in Buffalo Series features significant underground railroad sites from the Buffalo area and people Marc met while there. In this series, the symbols and patterns that suffuse his pictures are drawn from those found in quilts containing coded messages that were hung on porches to aid escaped slaves.
Preserver, her entry in the faculty exhibition, features fabric dyed with the patterns and symbols drawn from nautical distress flags and codes. Mary Bates Neubauer has created The Animal Kingdom , a large bronze sculpture inspired by small invertebrate specimens she observed in a science museum during her Fulbright year of study in Cambridge, England.
However, at a large scale, The Animal Kingdom takes on a life of its own, possessing a sense of animation that suggests an alert animal, peering out from the underbrush. Kaitlin at Twelve is one of a series of pictures taken by Scianghetti, who is documenting life in her own subdivision. The striking black and white photograph captures a young girl fingering a strand of pearls around her neck. She stands by a formal dining table, captured at that fleeting moment between childhood and womanhood.
Herberger College of Fine Arts. It is situated at the corner of Mill Avenue and 10th Street in Tempe. Visitors using the parking spaces must sign in at the front desk in the museum lobby. Please call for more information. Media Contact: Jennifer Pringle jennifer. March 13, Arts Herberger Institute for Design and the Arts.
