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Archive for the 'Installation' Category

Yao Ceremonial Artifacts Collection

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

An exhibit of the Yao Collection is now on view at the Multicultural Center Gallery in Baker Center. The Opening Reception will take place during Ohio University’s International Week, on Thursday, May 14th, from 5 to 7pm.
A gift from Frederick Harris (Hon. PhD, 1997) and collecting partners Robert Fallon (BA, 1969), and Ms. Nguyen Thi [...]

Designers ABC Primer

Friday, February 27th, 2009

A Designer’s ABC Primer makes reference to both the classic didactic ABC books and to the L’abecedaire of Gilles Deleuze, indicating a general theme but not a specific format.
Using the collection of the Frederick and Kazuko Harris Art Library as a primary research tool, the students of the Graphic Design Area class of 2010 [...]

Tragedy of a Liberated Desk

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007

Plant Biology major Christine Leistner explores the confluence of art and the natural world in her exhibit titled “The Tragedy of a Liberated Desk”, a story of how a desk escapes its fate and is liberated from the office.
Christine explains that “the desk goes through all the seasons of a year experiencing the continuum [...]

“Companionship”

Wednesday, May 16th, 2007

Senior painting major, David Hausman has created a nearly forty-foot long installation in the Alden Library stair tower: “My idea for the shape revolved around keeping you company as it follows you up or down the stairs.”
The project was funded, in part, by a Dean’s Undergraduate Creative Research Award and will be on view through [...]