Virtual Studio Visit: Nikki Blair
School of Art Associate Professor Nikki Blair has been working from her home studio in Greensboro, NC.
Art From Home: Mary Martinez
School of Art Alumni ’19 Mary Martinez’s art from home space in Greensboro, NC.
The Virtual Classroom: Musical Theatre on Multiple Stages
A famous monologue in Shakespeare’s As You Like It begins, “All the world’s a stage…”
It’s not exactly what Shakespeare meant, but taken literally, it’s true these days. Theatres — and theatre classrooms — are closed and suddenly professors and students are relating with each other from “stages” in their homes. But how do you teach an art that depends on human interaction when the participants are apart? Dominick Amendum is the Artist-in-Residence and Coordinator of UNC Greensboro’s Musical Theatre Program:
387 Alternative Process Project by Fil Hernandez
Leah Sobsey’s 387 Alternative Process students’ are hard at work creating artworks remotely. Check out a recent project by BFA student Fil Hernandez. The piece is a lumen print on silver gelatin paper exposed to UV light. Fil created the effect by arranging the 12 prints, and then laying on them for an hour.
New Assistant Professor of New Media & Design Hired in School of Art
College of Visual and Performing Arts Dean bruce d. mcclung has announced the appointment of Kelley O’Brien to the position of Assistant Professor in New Media & Design.
O’Brien has taught at numerous institutions, most recently as Visiting Assistant Professor of Art at Kenyon College and also as Visiting Lecturer of Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, Ireland.
Specializing in video-based practices and digital media, O’Brien’s work negotiates boundaries between industrial and “natural” landscapes, through a feminist perspective, to explore cultural links between gender hierarchy and the domination of the natural world. Her work parallels the death and rebirth of ecosystems and social movements, in hopes of adding understanding to our environments.
She has exhibited internationally in the Philippines, Ireland, South Korea, and nationally at the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse), Transformer Station (Cleveland) and The McDonough Museum of Art (Youngstown). O’Brien has been awarded grants from the Ohio Arts Council and a Fulbright Scholarship to the Philippines. Residencies include the Green Papaya Art Space, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Laboratory, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, and Wassaic Projects.
O’Brien has engaged in collaborative projects with Francis Halsall under the title “Mapping Systems” since 2015. Collectively, they have held workshops, lecture courses, and curated residencies in Ireland, the Philippines, and the United States.
O’Brien received her Bachelor’s degree in Architecture from The University of Tennessee and holds a Masters in Fine Art in 3D Design from Cranbrook Academy of Art.
Please join us in welcoming Kelley O’Brien to the CVPA faculty!
