st. lawrence university: department of fine arts

As featured in St. Lawrence’s NetNews yesterday, and as announced last spring in this blog, Amy Atkins ‘10, of Westerlo, NY, participated in a course at the prestigious Penland School of Crafts in Penland, NC, during the summer.

A fine arts/environmental studies major, Atkins took a course studying a wide variety of cold-glass-working techniques, led by internationally known artist Judith Schaetcher.  The combination of the numerous and layered process-intensive techniques as well as Schaetcher’s often anti-aesthetic imagery that runs contrary to what one thinks of when they think of “stained glass” is what led to Schaetcher’s international reputation.  Atkins was awarded a student work-study scholarship to attend.

Penland School of Crafts is a national center for craft education, offering workshops of varying lengths in books & paper, clay, drawing, glass, iron, metals, photography, printmaking & letterpress, textiles and wood. The school also sponsors artists’ residencies, community education programs and a craft gallery.

Atkins studied in Italy in the fall of 2008, through the University’s International and Intercultural Studies Program. She is a graduate of The Doane Stuart School in Rensselaer, NY.

Here is another gorgeous example of work that Amy made at Penland :

Our annual juried student show, this year titled BE(COM)ING, and juried by Dave Beck, Assistant Professor of Digital Media at Clarkson University was a big success and lots of people showed for the opening!

Below are some images from the opening reception:

I thought it would be nice to post, on a rotating basis, current work/works by studio and art history students on this site.

Lucia Bonsack created this piece in my Digital Media and Culture class using ARTRAGE, a fabulous, new, outrageously inexpensive, and amazingly intuitive painting program.  -amy

April Costa ‘09, Fine Arts major, created these cool prints in her Advanced Printmaking class:

Just wanted to share