The exhibit will be housed in the Reese Bullen Gallery on campus and runs from Oct. 30 through Dec. 4 with an opening reception on Thursday, Oct. 30 from 4 to 6 p.m. Food and beverage will be served at the reception and a jazz quartet from the Music Department will play.
The show was planned by students enrolled in Professor Michele McCall-Wallace’s “Museum and Gallery Practice,” Art 356, course. Students, faculty and staff associated with the department were invited to create art pieces with a small sheet of tin metal using various mediums and techniques. The works focus on one of the seven deadly sins: lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy and pride.
“The students came up with the seven deadly sins idea. Artists were allowed to paint, cut or incorporate the tin into another piece of art,” McCall-Wallace explains.
All the pieces will be available for purchase via a silent auction throughout the entire exhibit. Each piece will be sold to the highest bidder, ending on the closing night of Dec. 4 at 7 p.m. Funds raised by the auction will help the Art Department host a variety of events, workshops and visiting guest artists. Additionally, the department holds an annual juried exhibition every spring semester and the fundraiser will help bring in a guest artist to judge the competition.
“Being a rural campus, the faculty and students feel the need to bring visiting artists to the campus and local community,” says Professor Joanne Berke, chair of the Art Department. “We’re not around major museums and galleries and it’s important to stay current and one way to do that is to bring in artists from outside the area.”
Berke created a piece for the exhibit that examines greed and the inflation of the art market. She says she looks forward to seeing the diversity of “fascinating” pieces on display.
“We thought this was a great project to take and turn into a full exhibit,” McCall-Wallace says. “It should be a really interesting show.”
The Reese Bullen Gallery is located in the Art Quad across from the Van Duzer Theatre on the Humboldt State campus. The gallery’s hours are Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday, 12 to 5 p.m.; Thursday 12 to 7 p.m.; and Saturday 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For more information visit the Art Department’s Web site.