The past month or so has been a whirlwind of excitement and perseverance. We as a class decided to create a group project based on some research we had come across in discussion. The initial ideas were rocky at best, until we landed on a gold mine, the thesis gallery collection. Immediately the mood of the class changed and the challenge began. We elbowed through paintings, ceramics, prints, and metals work until the very last day when we decided on a group of 28 works.
With all the individuals in our class we had quite an array of various pieces, which held no obvious cohesion other than they all came from this storage unit at the Oakdale campus. The real excitement and probably largest task began when we started hanging the show. Artists works were moving from location to location with people running around trying to get their ideas herd, it was a good two hours of pure pandemonium. But when our show clicked it really clicked. I am truly impressed that a show that looks so professional and so well thought out was done by us!!
It is truly a testimonial to the students and faculty of the University of Iowa’s Art and Art History department. To look at the pieces and the show as a whole and know that it was all done by the students definitely says something for our school and for us as individuals.
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