Curtis Ames presents work at the HIGH Museum

College Night at the HIGH Museum
Saturday, November 10th, from 7pm to 12am

Curtis Ames is graduate student in the GSU MFA program. He works with a variety of media including painting, sculpture and video. You, Me, and Everyone we Know is a multi-channel installation featuring streaming video. It explores the possibility of liminality, through a pseudo-space created by interactive thermal projections. Incorporating the audience results in a continuous performative portrait and living document of the experience, that also addresses the reciprocal relationship between the artist and viewer. 

-This Post Courtesy Curtis Ames, 2nd year DPP Grad

Lauren Peterson visits the Mid American Print Conference!

This past weekend I helped out a friend of mine, Michael Smoot, for his demo during the Mid
American Print Conference in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. After the long 13 hour trip from Atlanta, the
printmaking goodness was well worth the trip. Printmakers from the surrounding areas converged for
demonstrations on techniques, intaglio, monoprinting and digital transfer on yupo, and even lithography
on wood. Panels on issues concerning contemporary printmaking and discussions surrounding the
theme of the “Entrepreneurial Printmaker” were scheduled throughout the day. Professional shops,
like Firecracker Press out of St. Louis set up their wares like posters, t-shirts, and printed notebooks
and students showed their work during open portfolio. Major printmaking suppliers like McCains,
Gamblin, and Takach displayed various tools, inks, and papers. On Friday night all the local art galleries
held openings, displaying prints from the conference and some local artists, including some beautiful
woodcuts printed on fabric. As I returned from the openings, Smoot was still diligently working on his
demo. The next day he had a great response from conference attenders interested in how he built
his own press with materials found at a hardware store for under $300. The weekend ended with
another long drive, some barbecue, and a mind full of new possibilities for how to make prints and keep
printmaking relative.

-This post by 1st year DPP Grad Lauren Peterson

Art for Impact 2012

This year Georgia State University's Photography Association, ExLucis, will be hosting our biennial Art for Impact benefit auction. We are working with Positive Impact, a local 501c3 non-profit that is the largest provider of no-cost mental health counseling, substance abuse treatment, and risk-reduction services to people affected by HIV in the Southeast.

The auction will include art submitted by students, faculty, and alumni of the Ernest G. Welch School of Art and Design. There will also be a raffle with prizes donated by local businesses who want to support the cause as well as a photo booth manned by GSU photography students.

Some come out and help raise some money! Buy some art! Win some prizes! Have a blast!

This event is free and open to the public.