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The Farquhar College of Arts and Sciences’ Division of Performing and Visual Arts held the opening reception for the Sixth Annual Faculty Exhibition on Sept. 10 in Gallery 217 of the Performing and Visual Arts Wings of the Don Taft University Center.
The exhibit features pieces from PVA facilities manager Ed Fitzpatrick and adjunct instructors Linda Payne, Veronique Cote, Zachary Ordonez and Tyler Smith. There are 25 art pieces, including oil and watercolor paintings, collages, sculptures and a video installation. Full-time faculty Associate Professor Tennille Shuster and Assistant Professor Robert Sparrow Jones co-directed the event and created pieces as well.
Shuster said, “These shows in the fall are really exciting to us because they’re largely student-driven.”
Studio art major Kate Allen, senior, is taking Jones’ Museum Studies and Gallery Practices class. Students in the course participate in art events throughout the semester, by helping with set up, painting the walls, and installing the artwork.
Allen said she was drawn to the paintings at the opening reception.
“There’s a lot of variety here,” Allen said. “I just started painting last year so I’m really interested in looking at different styles.”
Jones has been teaching classes in art history and painting at NSU for two years and created many pieces for the exhibition, including his oil painting “Felidae Maladay.” It took him about a month to create “Felidae Maladay” while simultaneously working on multiple pieces.
Jones said the painting was inspired by the environment and natural resources.
“I grew up in rural Pennsylvania,” Jones said. “We’re always in the woods so that’s something that I see slowly slipping away from us — that kind of intimate relationship with our natural resources.”
Shuster said the participation in the opening was great.
“I feel like the quality of the faculty’s work and what they were able to get done over the summer was just phenomenal, so it’s so great to see what they’ve all been up to. And I think it’s so great for the students to come in and see what their professors have been doing.”
The exhibition will be on display until Oct. 7 in Gallery 217. For more information about the exhibit, including gallery hours, call the Division of Performing and Visual Arts at 954-262-7620.
