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Samuel Tannenbaum: Modernity with a Shaker Sensibility
In a post-post-modern era of computer-aided design and retro-ornate popularity, what is old can be startlingly and gorgeously new. Samuel Tannenbaum, Textile Surface Design, ’19, draws on his small town roots and his aptitude for textile design and crafting, to create original fabric designs and fabric-based artwork. His work has a distinctive, elegantly spare, Shaker…
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Anna Niklova captures the swagger of “extravagant” socks and mismatched footwear
When Anna Niklova (Illustration ’18), notices an appealing flash of color in a passerby’s outfit, she is quick to offer a compliment. In her senior year she began noticing a less subtle trend. Call it accessories grandstanding. “Funky, colorful socks with all kinds of patterns came into vogue, often with footwear adapted to show off…
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Michaela Lawson deconstructs Kendrick Lamar Grammy album
Photography student Michaela Lawson was struck last August by inspiration so strong for Kendrick Lamar’s Grammy album Damn that she was compelled to “speak her truth” about it. Unintimidated by the album’s stature, she became part of an informal community of artists independently responding to it. “My photography is not only inspired by the visual…
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“Another level of reality” in Andrew Williams-Leazer’s thesis work
The whole world is an assemblage when you think about it. Things drop off, get picked up and reused. In Andrew Williams-Leazer’s Fine Arts thesis work, you can often tell where he’s been, and what he’s picked up and contemplated along the way. Williams-Leazer’s assembleges, as he calls them, go beyond the borders of his…
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Ron Amato Captures Artist Portraits in Provincetown
Great images are captured in an instant, but providing history and context is the product of years of research and observation. Professor Ron Amato combines a sense of Provincetown history along with an understanding of newly destabilizing demographic trends there. He used the latest in photographic lighting technology to, well, make more history. Amato’s work reached…