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While on campus in October, Rockpool Candy created an outdoor neolithic loom, as she describes it, and here is one of our dear gallery ninjas going at it.

In October, Rockpoolcandy and Mytarpit visited campus.  They workshopped  with SLU students, created scads of cool stuff, and instigated an outdoor giveaway art exhibition.  Rockpoolcandy even made a loom!

Emily Gawdey-Backus wrote a(nother) thoughful essay about the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery and Permanent Collection in the current issue of The Hill News.  Essays like these help communicate to students and others information about the function of the gallery as a source for learning and research.

Djifa Kothor and Josh Sharlow (not pictured) finish lighting the Sister Corita exhibition, while our dear Jodie Phaneuf ‘97 applies for grad school.

The 2009 fall semester begins with an exhibition of prints by Sister Corita Kent from August 19 to October 24.  Dianne Drayse from Ogdensburg Free Academy will be doing curriculum development, and she pointed me to a few videos on YouTube including this one by Aaron Rose, an independent curator from L.A.  He organized an exhibition of Sister Corita’s work called Passion for the Possible, which was on display in Berlin in 2008.  In the video, he talks about some of the similarities between Corita’s work and the work of graffiti artists, then and now–all of whom he thinks were/are social outsiders in one way or another.  Check it out!

The Griffiths and Noble Center arts buildings are almost empty today.  I saw one student, Alex Comeau, in the NCAT this morning and remembered he was awarded a SLU Fellowship to study mass media advertising, branding, and marketing.  By chance I came across his excellent blog called PAC Online.  Very nicely done, Alex.

We had a festive reception the day before Commencement for students and their families.  Music with Minor Swing.  President Sullivan and Ann Sullivan were able to join us, as well as alumna Connie Harris Saddlemire, pictured with FA faculty Melissa Schulenberg and Kasarian Dane.

In honor of President Daniel F. Sullivan and Ann H. Sullivan, the gallery presents an exhibition of works by students, faculty, and alumni from the past twelve years.  Here is a detail of a digital photograph by Cassie Walsh ‘09, a project in which she asked people to “hold the tomato.”