Visual Arts Demo Days Recap: 2024

Visual Arts Demo Days 2024 has come to a close! To stay up to date on information regarding next year's Demo Days, fill out a Visual Arts Demo Days Interest Form.

 

View the highlights from Visual Arts Demo Days 2024's demonstrations, lectures, and workshops below:

  • Dr. Brittany Lockard presenting a lecture on artist Haegue Yang. Four instructors sit facing the large projector screen. Presentation text reads, "Haegue Yang, b. 1971. Transnational artist, born in S. Korea and works there an in Berlin. Woman. Idiosyncratic practice in multiple media. Interested in abstraction, history, the domestic, women, the future, science, etc. Very wide-ranging process and subject. This part of the series (The Intermediate) begun in 2015. Considers act of working with natural materials, first by mimicking in synthetics designed to look like straw. Combines labor-intensive process with low-cost materials. What does this ask about craft vs. fine art? Value? Authenticity? Meaning? Haegue Yang, The Intermediate-Titled Bushy Lumpy, Bumpy, 2016."
  • Instructors crowd around a table and watch as Kendra Cremin soaks a small magazine clipping in a liquid solution.
  • Two instructors assemble collages at a table filled with craft materials.
  • Hand holding a small canvas. On the canvas is an incomplete image of a multicolored butterfly.
  • Lori Santos handling pressed floral art with blue latex gloves on a large table filled with various supplies. A group of instructors surround the table.
  • Detailed image of Lori Santos handling pressed floral art with blue latex gloves on a large table filled with various supplies.
  • Over-the-shoulder view of an instructor using a blue colored pencil to add hue to a drawing of a flower in a journal.
  • Six prints created from pressed flora line the bottom of a chalkboard.
  • Instructors working at a table.
  • Over-the-shoulder view of a smiling instructor using colored glaze to paint yellow flowers and blue leaves.
  • Instructors working at a table.
  • Detailed image of a green bird with a blue underbelly painted in glaze on a sheet of paper. There are small painted vines above and below the bird.
  • An instructor assembling a collage of various flora on a wooden table.
  • Detailed image of a dandelion clamped between cardboard, paper and plexiglass.
  • A group of instructors outdoors. Facing away from the camera, they are
  • Jennifer Ray developing a photo in the darkroom as instructors watch.
  • A completed lumen print of various leaves and flowers.
  • Megan Messer holding up a vessel made of paper clay.
  • Megan Messer presenting as instructors sit at tables.
  • Detailed image of two paper clay roses sitting on newspaper.
  • Marco Hernandez gesturing towards materials needed for printmaking.
  • Marco Hernandez lifting a print between layers of paper.
  • Hands revealing a complete Monoprint of a multicolored tiger and sunflower.
  • Brookelle Peterson holding a screen above paper pulp sitting on a plexiglass sheet.
  • An instructor points at a clay mold being held by Brookelle Peterson. On the table in front of them sits a variety of clay molds as well as a large paper sculpture of a head.
  • Instructors gather around a piece of art hanging on a wall. The artwork depicts multiple bunk beds layered between one another.
  • Brookelle Peterson seated at a table with instructors.
  • Brookelle Peterson lecturing at a table with instructors.
  • Instructors seated facing a screen with multicolored, abstract artworks projected onto it.
  • Robert Bubp lecturing beside a projector screen.
  • Two instructors looking over a large sheet of paper with various images transferred onto it.
  • Detailed image of a sheet of paper with coffee stains and a transfer of a squirrel in the bottom right corner.