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Expect the Unexpected; Student Work is Featured in UMBC Exhibit
With support from the UMBC Fine Arts Gallery Outreach Program staff, McDonogh art teachers Oletha DeVane, Mia Halton, and John Lehr introduced students to Fred Wilson's exhibit and distinctive vision: that museums reflect their own institutional biases. Students then visited McDonogh's Archives to glean ideas for their own Wilson-inspired projects.
Later, tours of the Maryland Historical Society, the Contemporary Museum, and the Walters Art Museum, allowed students to look critically, as Wilson does, for prejudices and assumptions in the exhibits.
Students clearly understood Wilson's concepts. Their work--some of it deeply personal--contained juxtapositions and pointed commentary.
It included Hillary O.'s photographs of typically unnoticed campus workers; Tim O.'s photo series of items that he relocated after finding them discarded around campus; Rachel S.'s sculpture of the John McDonogh monument and John McDonogh's Rules for Living, positioned in unlikely pieces; Erica K.'s photo series of museum frames featuring unexpected images; and Adam D.'s installation piece, steps containing broken and altered objects suggesting hidden, dark aspects of student life.
Ryan E. painted a photo of a 1980s school riflery team using neutral hues and making the students faceless. "My piece illustrates how the reactions and responses to the image of a gun, particularly guns in schools, have changed within the last 10 to 20 years," he said.
With support from the UMBC Fine Arts Gallery Outreach Program staff, McDonogh art teachers Oletha DeVane, Mia Halton, and John Lehr introduced students to Fred Wilson's exhibit and distinctive vision: that museums reflect their own institutional biases. Students then visited McDonogh's Archives to glean ideas for their own Wilson-inspired projects.
Later, tours of the Maryland Historical Society, the Contemporary Museum, and the Walters Art Museum, allowed students to look critically, as Wilson does, for prejudices and assumptions in the exhibits.
Students clearly understood Wilson's concepts. Their work--some of it deeply personal--contained juxtapositions and pointed commentary.
It included Hillary O.'s photographs of typically unnoticed campus workers; Tim O.'s photo series of items that he relocated after finding them discarded around campus; Rachel S.'s sculpture of the John McDonogh monument and John McDonogh's Rules for Living, positioned in unlikely pieces; Erica K.'s photo series of museum frames featuring unexpected images; and Adam D.'s installation piece, steps containing broken and altered objects suggesting hidden, dark aspects of student life.
Ryan E. painted a photo of a 1980s school riflery team using neutral hues and making the students faceless. "My piece illustrates how the reactions and responses to the image of a gun, particularly guns in schools, have changed within the last 10 to 20 years," he said.