This Is Always Finished, Project Learning Lab’s End-of-Semester Student Art Exhibit Opens

HOUGHTON, MI, November 16, 2016 – Works of art are always (and never!) finished.

This end-of-semester installation will showcase art developed by students participating in Project Learning Lab, Visual and Performing Art’s alternative arts classroom based inside Rozsa’s gallery b.

The Michigan Tech community is invited to join our students for conversations about their works – both finished and in-progress.

The Rozsa Center and Department of Visual and Performing Arts present This is Always Finished, in Rozsa Galleries’ A-Space and gallery b, Friday Dec. 2- Tuesday, Dec. 6, 2016, with a reception on Friday, Dec. 2, 2016, 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM. The reception is free and all are welcome.

Gallery hours are Monday – Friday, 8:00 AM – 8:00 PM and Saturday from 1:00 PM – 8:00 PM.

Work on display was created in Lisa Gordillo’s Sculpture and Advanced Sculpture classes, by students from many campus disciplines including Accounting, Forestry, Materials Science, and Visual and Performing Arts. Students were encouraged to work with the gallery’s architecture, to explore alternative materials, and to create large-scale installations in the space. Student work this semester was influenced by contemporary artists such as Doris Salcedo, El Anatsui, Ai Wei Wei, and Do Ho Suh.

Student artists represented:

Katie Draves
Zep Elkerton
Charlie Heckel
Mark Ilenich
Kaiyu Lin
Natalia Parra Alvarez
Aaron Rabideau
Olivia Smith
Brandon Stimac
Tiffani Whipple
Hannah Fisher
Grace Schroeder
Cambry Totten-Wade

For more information please contact Lisa Gordillo, Assistant Professor, Visual and Performing Arts, 906-487-3096, lijohnso@mtu.edu.

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