STATE OF THE ARTS

from Guilford College Magazine - December 2020

YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAKE AN IMPACT

Technical skills, deep observation, community collaboration and innovative research are hallmarks of Guilford’s Art Department. The Art major engages students in the visual arts, both as creative artists and as learners of multiple philosophical and art historical perspectives. The program emphasizes training in observation, technical application of skills, development of conceptual depth and the resolution of imagery for presentation to an audience. The Art program at Guilford exemplifies the Guilford Edge tenets of hands-on experiential learning and collaboration with faculty and classmates.

**FROM LEFT: GLORIA SINGLETON-KAHN '20, ANNIE LATTIMORE '20, LELE GRAVES '20,WHITLEY SINK '20, SOPHIE MCDOWELL '20, KERRI SMOOT '20, CRISTINA GAVIRIA '20**

Selected for the rigorous Honors Art Thesis Program, seven Class of 2020 Art students spent the last year planning, creating and adapting their work for their final exhibition, SHIFT. The show was aptly named, not just for the challenges represented in each collection, but also for the quick and innovative changes these students had to make. As the COVID-19 pandemic altered the course of their final semester, these students continued to produce outstanding pieces with uplifting messages using only the tools available in their homes.

Kerri Smoot ’20, Ceramics

Lights shine up from glowing white porcelain domes. They project constellations onto the ceiling. Ghostly images of woodland flora and fungi peek around the edges.

Whitley Sink ’20, Ceramics

I sculpt stylized moons and hares out of stoneware clay.

Sophie McDowell ’20, Printmaking

This is my in-between land — where moments from dreams and memories, the people and places that have passed on, can exist together and exist forever. This is home for me now.

Gloria Singleton-Kahn ’20, Mixed Media Painting

I paint sperm-snake-digestive tract creatures holding and manipulating each other. They tend to each other’s bodies, pleasure and growth in cell structure and egg-inspired incubating spaces.