Last Friday Artists Display Creative Endeavors
Art League students discuss the creative process
Tricia Demmers
Issue date: 11/6/08 Section: News
The time nears 6:00 p.m. and three artists assemble their artwork in anticipation for those who will come. They will come to see, to contemplate and ponder what they each have poured their time into.
It is Friday October 30th, upstairs in Larson Student Union. The art department is hosting Last Friday from 6-8 p.m. Three artists were chosen to exhibit their art to students, family and faculty who wish to visit. The artists, Joshua Rayner, Crystal Weaver and Matthew Kiehl, organized where their art would be placed and how.
"We like to keep this small, which is why only three artists are showing per month," says Rayner, a sophomore Art History Major displaying his artwork in Last Friday. "We would run out of artists rather quickly if more than three were shown."
Last Friday happens once every month on the last Friday, as is suggested by the name of the venue.
Rayner's artwork, titled Familia, is encaustic on board. Encaustic is a style that uses hot wax as a medium. "Essentially it's painting with hot wax," the artists explains and nods his head. "I've used five squares of gold-leaf in this artwork and different colors that appeal to my senses."
According to Rayner, the title is reminiscent of this past summer when he took a workshop in Harrisburg discovering encaustic as an artistic venue. "I spent quite a lot of time with my family then," Rayner continues. "It's interesting though, I didn't plan to have five pieces of gold-leaf in the artwork, but there are, and it only occurred to me after that there were five people in my family."
Each artist displays a different venue of artistry than the next, each holds appreciation of their fellow artists' work and the chance they have received to display their own.
"It's nice because we do a lot of work in our classes and it stays cooped up," says Weaver, with a smile, "it's great to share our work with people."
Weaver is a senior studio art major with a two-dimensional concentration. Her exhibit features a succession of photographs titled, D&S Dairy Series.
It is Friday October 30th, upstairs in Larson Student Union. The art department is hosting Last Friday from 6-8 p.m. Three artists were chosen to exhibit their art to students, family and faculty who wish to visit. The artists, Joshua Rayner, Crystal Weaver and Matthew Kiehl, organized where their art would be placed and how.
"We like to keep this small, which is why only three artists are showing per month," says Rayner, a sophomore Art History Major displaying his artwork in Last Friday. "We would run out of artists rather quickly if more than three were shown."
Last Friday happens once every month on the last Friday, as is suggested by the name of the venue.
Rayner's artwork, titled Familia, is encaustic on board. Encaustic is a style that uses hot wax as a medium. "Essentially it's painting with hot wax," the artists explains and nods his head. "I've used five squares of gold-leaf in this artwork and different colors that appeal to my senses."
According to Rayner, the title is reminiscent of this past summer when he took a workshop in Harrisburg discovering encaustic as an artistic venue. "I spent quite a lot of time with my family then," Rayner continues. "It's interesting though, I didn't plan to have five pieces of gold-leaf in the artwork, but there are, and it only occurred to me after that there were five people in my family."
Each artist displays a different venue of artistry than the next, each holds appreciation of their fellow artists' work and the chance they have received to display their own.
"It's nice because we do a lot of work in our classes and it stays cooped up," says Weaver, with a smile, "it's great to share our work with people."
Weaver is a senior studio art major with a two-dimensional concentration. Her exhibit features a succession of photographs titled, D&S Dairy Series.
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