Title of Event: Palmer Art Gallery Tour/Visit
Date & Time of Event: Saturday November 16th, 10-4pm
Location of Event: Penn State Palmer Art Gallery
Type of event: Museum Visit
Me standing inside an work in the visiting exhibition of “Made in PA” at the Palmer Art Gallery.
Title of Event: Maggie Cardelús Artist Lecture
Date and time of event: October 9 5:00pm
Location of Event: Holmes Auditorium
Type of Event: Artist Lecture
This was a very interesting and exciting event to attend. She truly cares about her work, having so much meaning and thought into all of her projects. I love that through her 30 years of creating art, she has explored many different materials, ranging from altercations of old photos to needle point art. I found that her process of experimentation with the needlepoint canvas by adding layers of paint, cutting it, and stacking multiple layers reminds me of science projects. It incorporates testing different methods out and highlights the intersectionality of art’s nuances, and also the meticulous complexity of the sciences.
Title of Event: Maggie Cardelús Artist Lecture
Date and time of event: October 9th, 5pm
Location of Event: Holmes Auditorium
Type of Event: Artist Lecture
This talk was very interesting. Maggie has had a 30 year long career so far. She explores gender and history in her art by using photographs, multi-media, and needlepoints that she buys from street markets. I also thought it was interesting how she combined art and motherhood while she was raising her children. This was because she didn’t want to leave art or her children so she merged them into her projects. She believed that this was a very effective stratagy.
Title of Event: Maggie Cardelús Artist Lecture
Date and time of event: October 9 5pm
Location of Event: Holmes Auditorium
Type of Event: Artist Lecture
This was a very interesting lecture about Maggie’s 30 years of experience. She tends to change her focus on art often even within each individual piece as was seen with the yarn. She specifically likes to tie in her family to her artwork which I found very interesting. She talked about how other artist have struggled to focus on both, so she combined them.
Title of Event: Samek Museum
Date and time of event: October 10 1pm
Location of Event: ELC
Type of Event: Walkthrough
I did a self guided walkthrough of the Samek Museum and checked out their Slow Looking exhibit. I like the way specific artwork was grouped together throughout the museum. I especially liked the little historic note cards and documents.
Title of Event: Classics Club Event Luck with Kim Breyfogle
Date and time of event: 12pm on Tuesday October 8th
Location of Event: ELC Arches Lounge
Type of Event: Presentation/Discussion
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended. (This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective of your opinion.)
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)?
(10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 )
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
Title of Event: Samek Art Museum Visit
Date & Time of Event: October 10th, 12 pm
Location of Event: Samek Museum, on campus location (ELC, 3rd Floor)
Type of event: Self guided Tour/casual visit
I went to the on campus Samek Museum to check out their Slow Looking exhibit. I really enjoyed it as well as the museum guide they provide. It makes the exhibit like a little scavenger hunt to find each painting, which I found both really fun and an interesting inversion of stereotypical museum setups.
Gracyn Finn
Holmes Hall- October 9, 2024, 5:00PM
Maggie Cardelús
I went to an artist’s talk by Maggie Cardelús where she talked about the work she does like needlepoint, leatherwork, and paper folding in varying scales. Early on in her presentation, she spoke about how the titles of her photos are always changing and how she has no end goal for art, and that she continues to change and develop her art. My favorite pieces that she showed us were the pieces that were made of paper that were cut and reformed, and you could barely even tell what the original photo was of. I loved the picture of her son looking at the birds and then she cut out little bird outlines, it was so simple but such a great meaning behind it. I enjoyed when she was talking about when she collected the needlepoint work and how each one had its own unique characteristics. I love how all of her art is so different with its processes, it would be so amazing to go to one of her shows because of how diverse her pieces are.
Title of Event: Maggie Cardelús Artist Lecture
Date & Time of Event: October 9, 2024 at 5pm
Location of Event: Holmes Hall Auditorium
Type of event: Artist lecture
For my second ArtXpose I went to see artist Maggie Cardelús talk about all of her artwork. The talk was very intriguing and mentioned her many different stages as an artist she went through. She talked a lot about how her children play a large role in her artwork and how she has traveled to many different places to find inspiration for her projects. I found this talk very interesting and knowledgable about sculpting.
Title of Event: Maggie Cardelús Artist Lecture
Date & Time of Event: Wednesday October 9th 5 pm
Location of Event: Holmes Hall Hislop Family Auditorium 116
Type of event: Artist lecture with Q&A and reception
Maggie Cardelús’s work is very impressive in her range of capabilities and commitment to it. She has incredibly detailed yet experimental work, my favorite works of hers that she showed were the carbon paper landscapes.
Title of Event: Slow Looking
Date & Time of Event: Wednesday October 9th 2pm
Location of Event: Samek Art Gallery
Type of event: Exhibition
I really liked the concept for this exhibit. It is meant to replicate the way in which the art was set up in the small apartment of the owner of the art. He grouped together specific pieces with each other. This adds a layer to the experience and understanding of the art pieces and is kind of like its own form of art. I really enjoyed the variety of the types of materials used in the art. My favorite piece was the drawing to the left of me. This was an interesting visual showing architecture and detailed drawing.
Title of Event: Slow Looking
Date & Time of Event: Friday October 4rd 1pm
Location of Event: Samek Art Gallery
Type of event: Exhibition
I really enjoyed the Slow Looking exhibit at the gallery. I found two art pieces really interesting, which are pictured above. I thought the drawing of the city was really impressive because it was so detailed and at such a small scale. The technique used no color, but you could tell the dimensions and shadows of the scene perfectly. I also found the drawing of the face really interesting because I think that it is a good example on how to show the shape and dimensions of a face, which is useful for our bust project. The exhibit had a very good message of using this alum’s collection to allow people to practice “slow-looking” in a world in which we consume so much media so quickly. I also liked that the exhibit was supposed to mimic the alum’s home and how he displayed his collection.
Title of Event: Slow-Looking Exhibition
Date & Time of Event: Friday, September 27th, 1:15 pm
Location of Event: Samek Art Gallery
Type of event: Exhibition
I really enjoyed visiting the new art exhibition at the Samek! The artwork displayed was donated by a Bucknell alumnus and centers around deep observation and careful looking – something that is very rare in today’s social media culture. I enjoyed the gallery wall-style curation in which multiple works of art took up a smaller space. It created a very interesting phenomenon where you never saw the same thing twice while looking. One of the pieces that didn’t initially catch my attention but after a glance or two really stuck out is the third picture I posted. The work itself is quite small but the deep maroon velvet mat helps bring attention to the piece without overpowering it.
Title of Event: Carlos Barberena – Artist-in-Residence
Date & Time of Event: Wednesday, October 2nd at 3pm
Location of Event: Hislop Family Auditorium
Type of event: Artist lecture and reception
This was such a powerful talk! I really enjoyed learning about the ways that Barberena used his art to connect with and advocate for his communities. The raw and vulnerable themes discussed in the presentation were quite moving – the two pictures I posted were specifically interesting to me. The first is a print of a 15-year-old boy killed by police during a peaceful protest and the second image is his mother holding the poster. I look forward to learning more from this artist through his residency at Bucknell!
Title of Event: Carlos Barberana: Artist’s Talk
Date and time of event: October 2, 2024 at 3 pm
Location of event: Holmes Hall Hislop Family Auditorium 116
Type of event: Artist lecture with Q&A
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended.
Carlos Barberana, who is from Chicago and born in Nicaragua, was invited to Bucknell through the Ekard Artist-in-Residence program and gave a lecture about his art. He is a self taught printmaker, and he draws on his history from Nicaragua to create art advocating for social, political, and environmental justice. He spoke of his experiences growing up and throughout his career.
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
Barberana’s work is really impressive. The phrases he chooses to use in the print are very impactful to me alongside the backstory of each individual. Every subject he chose to depict had an impactful backstory that portrays a crucial perspective in the fight for social justice. I really appreciated the cultural context that Barberana provided for each of his works, as they make the pieces much more impactful and poetic. Many of the events he described were distressing to hear about yet important to share. Barberana’s pieces can serve to memorialize a tragedy and preserve the consequence of the brutality and violence that caused the victim’s death.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
What impressed me a lot in his works were the patterns he would use for the backgrounds and clothing of the portraits, which seemed to be designed to depict the subject’s culture and background. I really appreciated his comment on the ephemeralness of his publicly displayed prints, and how he expects it to be taken down but he connects that reality to the experience of migrant workers. It shows me his thoroughness and intention in his creation process. I admire how unifying his overall work is, how he takes his own experiences and troubles from growing up, and relates them to the experiences of other marginalized groups, then he decisively supports and advocates for those groups as well. It feels very selfless of him to see and empathize with other people’s struggles throughout the world, his goal to fight oppression throughout the world is impressive and ambitious.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)?
I would rate this event an 8.5 out of 10.
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
Barberana shared a lot of cultural background and struggles I was not aware of, and also tied it to many I was already familiar with. I think it is really important to not ignore these struggles. By showing his artwork in chronological order I could also see the evolution of his works and the impact it had. His talk seemed very impactful to the audience, as there were multiple questions from students at the end. Although his talk was long, his stories and inspiration for his art was never dull. The food afterwards also allowed the audience to interact with each other and discuss how they felt about the lecture, which I find to be an important part of the experience.
Charlotte Kenyon
Title of Event: Samek Museum
Date and time of event: September 27, 2024 at 11:45am
Location of event: 3rd floor of ELC
Type of event: Art Museum
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended.
For this artxpose I went to the third floor of the ELC where there is student art on display. There are a variety of paintings and drawings hung up on the walls that greatly range in color, depth, and detail. This museum was not necessarily an event, but a very interesting room filled with creative artwork. The paintings and drawings are clustered together in different groups along each wall.
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
I thought that this museum was very interesting and impressive. There is so much variation in the artwork and it was intriguing to see all the different angles each artist took to create their final product. I am very curious about how the museum workers and artists decided what group to hang certain pieces of artwork in, because some of the groupings seem very random. I also wonder how they decide what artwork gets to be on display, and when it is time to replace certain pieces of art. With the great variety in the pieces of artwork, I interpreted them very differently. One I found very interesting was made out of oil paints and it was dark, with very little faded colors. This piece of art seemed to depict people on horses crossing a body of water. For this one I interpreted it as a depiction of war because of how dark and dreary the oil paint is. Overall, for some of the artwork presented to me I was shocked by the talent it takes to create a product that detailed. However, for other projects I was not as amazed because some seemed unfinished and others had very little detail and seemed like there was not a lot of thought put into it.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
I was most impressed by the very detailed drawings and the depiction of shadows in the artwork done in pencil and pen. I was impressed by how particular and creative a piece of artwork can be in black and white. These pieces of art were very clear and neat, and I noticed a lot of effort and thought went into them.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)?
Overall, I would rate this event a 6.
5.) Justify your rating in the question above: I would rate this museum a 6 because although it was very interesting, it did not gather my full attention. I believe that most of the artwork is very impressive and thought provoking, but overall not engaging for the audience.
Gracyn Finn
Title of event: Sakem Museum, Third floor of ELC
Date and time: 11:45, September 27th, 2024
Type of Event: Art museum
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended.
For this Artxpose, I walked around through the Sakem Museum here at Bucknell and got to enjoy all of the art made by different students here. There were a ton of framed pieces of art and all had unique qualities that individualized each one.
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal criticalinsight / response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
While walking through the Sakem Art Museum I enjoyed taking my time and walking through the room at my own pace getting to think about the art I was looking at. I noticed how they weren’t titled which was interesting for the pieces that were more unclear, because I was able to have my own interpretation of the art. I also noticed how all of the different pieces of art were very different and varied in their composition. Some were photos, some were watercolors, paint, acrylic, and pencil, and some I was unsure what the artist used which I found interesting. While walking through, and seeing the various pieces, made me wonder how they decided to group the pieces and how they are displayed. From an outside perspective, it looks almost random, but I wonder if there was a certain thought process and purpose behind how the pieces were grouped together. I also wonder how often they replace this art, and how they decide what will be displayed. Some art pieces look like they vary in the culture behind them. One piece that stood out to me was one with a man surrounded by Chinese characters and symbols. Some pieces are very modern looking with clean shapes and colors while others are messy scribbles.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
I am most impressed by how each piece of art is so different and how you can clearly tell that almost every piece was made by a different artist. There was two pieces that were next to each other and looked like they used the same material and similar qualities but the image was the same. I think it is interesting that I interpret the two pieces as being made by the same person.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)?
7
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
I did enjoy this Museum and I liked taking my time walking through because it was empty while I was there. I am looking forward to attending an event so that I can hear what the speaker has to say and learn new things about art that I don’t know.
Holmes
Kress Collection