Highlights

Campus News

Wildcat Weekly Minute for Nov. 17, 2011

A look at what's happening on campus this week.

Faith

Cleansed through the Cross

Dr. Quarles speaks on the efficacy of Christ's sacrifice at weekly chapel

Sports

LC hoops teams wrap up homestand with pair of wins

Off to Ozarks, UT-Dallas next

Organizations

LC media student give to Toys for Tots

More than 100 toys will help local charity

Campus Life

February is Heart Health Awareness Month

Stay healthy and 'God Red'

Culture

All the Shakespeare you could laugh at… and more!

tlc's adaptation of 'Shakespeare Abridged' pulls out all the stops

Special Coverage

LC brings another successful ‘Follow the Star’

'Christmas on the Hill' and 'Gala' add to festive weekend

Art Faculty Displays Work to Begin Semester

by Sarah James

Opening Art Gallery displays work of the art faculty including Reynoso, Steele, Gilchrist, Howell and Chou

The LC Art Faculty kicked off the semester with an art gallery displaying some of their recent artwork.

Carole Steele is an adjunct instructor of art and is teaching 2D Design and Color Theory this semester. Steele spoke about her love for art and texture and the inspiration behind her ceramic teapots.

Steele said, “The best designs for ceramics are dumb designs, like dots, circles and squares.”

A former LC instructor, Bob Howell, also exhibited some of his works. He uses glazes that drip and run and creates works that look earthy and natural, not highly polished. Howell also likes to use impressions of leaves to create different designs in his works.

Howell explained the differences in high fire and low fire ceramics. High fire ceramics uses temperatures over 2000 degrees and the final product is more dense, while low fire ceramic pieces are baked at temperatures less than 2000 degrees, normally about 1800 degrees.

Professor Wang-Ling Chou also displayed two ceramic pieces. These pieces resulted from Chou wanting to dramatically increase the scale of the original flower like works that she had created in grad school. She used different glazes to create stripes to “push away from the natural look.”

She told of the troubles she faced with the glaze on her work “Cold and Green Stripes.” Chou had fired the artwork and when she removed it from the kiln there were bubbles everywhere. She re-fired it a second time and there were still bubbles. Chou told how she then surrendered the work to God and re-fired the piece for a third time.

Chou informed the audience of how she opened the kiln and said, “I know that it was God. The bubbles were all gone.” Chou rejoiced while telling about her pieces.

Adjunct instructor Preston Gilchrist displayed a series of 19 altered cyanotype and photo transfer prints that loosely related to a woman of the Bible or Apocrypha.



Rondall Reynoso, head of the art department, explained Gilchrist’s work because he was unable to attend.

Gilchrist’s work took photographs of Victorian women that he found in thrift stores and on eBay and gave them an identity. For example, one of the cyanotypes was of a woman and the background was covered with a layer of salt. The idea was to portray the woman as Lot’s wife who was turned into a pillar of salt.

Reynoso displayed two sets of paintings – Beautiful Taboo and Glimpses.

Tired of working with squares and lines, Beautiful Taboo is a set of four abstracted views of the human body, while Glimpses is a set of painting consisting of circles. None of the circles were perfect or whole. The circles symbolize eternal, perfect things and these glimpses are meant to show how no one is perfect. These works show how people will never be able to know everything about God….only glimpses of His plan.

The show concluded with most students standing in line to sign up for cultural credit while some mingled and inquired about their favorite pieces.



Photos by: Megan Decoteau

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