Digital Natives: string drawing performance

Finally, we brought our explorations into the third dimension with a room-sized string drawing. I had intended to document the performance and discard the string at the end of the class, BUT, the students wove it very tightly and worked out a way to suspend it from the ceiling. I can't imagine the space without the string, which became the perfect finishing touch.

Digital Natives: Installation Views

The collagraphs became the centerpiece of the exhibit with dozens of monoprints pulled from them lining the walls. Additional layers of organization were added to the prints by drawing, and later, collage.

Digital Natives: collagraphs

Intended to serve as plates for our printing process, the collagraphs themselves became increasingly complex and interesting as they accumulated a residue of paint.

Digital Natives: collaborative printing

Using glue and string, we drew diagrams of our communication patterns on boards. When these were dry, we gathered up leftover cans of latex paint, supplemented with some acrylic paint, and using paint-roller sponges, "inked" our plates and pulled multiple prints from each one. Boards, prints, paints and people all moved around the room in a collaborative swirl. We shared techniques and materials as we developed our multi-layered prints.

Denise Driscoll and Art I: Digital Natives

Denise Driscoll and the students of Art I are mapping the intricacies of daily communication with collaborative prints and wall-drawings in Digital Natives.  Work will continue through January.

Robert Collins: Paintings

October 5 to October 30, 2009

Artist Reception:
Friday October 16, 6:30 to 8 pm

Robert Collins

Composition in Red White and Black

Mixed media on wood, 2009

48 in. X 48 in.


Biography

Robert Collins has his BFA, (1976) and MFA, (1978) degrees from Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts.  He has taught at Boston University, Boston, Ma, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA, and he is currently teaching at Rhode Island College, Providence, RI, the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, the Danforth  Museum School, Framingham, MA, the Brookline Arts Center, Brookline, MA, and the Merrimac Center for Professional Development, Billerica, MA.  Robert Collins has also worked as a Senior Designer for Hasbro Toy Company, Pawtucket, RI, where he was responsible for product design and development including such product lines as “My Little Pony”, "Jem”, “Charmkins”, and “Get in Shape Girl”.  He was a Senior Design Director for American Manufacturing, Boston, MA, and also for the Bradford Novelty Company, Bellingham, MA. Robert also was a commercial artist and layout designer for Sears Roebuck and Company, Natick, MA.  Robert Collins has exhibited his paintings and drawings throughout the New England area in such galleries as: the Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA, the G. Watson Gallery, Stonington, ME, the DeBlois Gallery, Newport, RI and the Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA as well as at the Danforth Museum, Framingham, MA.  He was inducted into the “Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers in 2002 for his contributions in Fine Art and Industrial Design.  Additional work may be viewed at RobertCollinsPaintings.com.

2009 (September) Kristin Ford: Maine Waters

August 18 to September 24, 2009
Artist Reception Wednesday September 16, 6:30 to 8 PM
Artist Talk, Friday September 11, 11:30 AM and 12:45 PM