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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2009
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THE JUSTICE
JULIAN AGIN-LIEBES/the Justice
ONE STEP BACK: Catherine McConnell ’10 surveys her work before the exhibit in Dreitzer Gallery. Profs. Marcus Baenzinger (FA) and Joe Wardwell (FA) helped students put finishing touches on their work last week.
Artists’ ‘Brushes’ show creativity Seniors prepare their penultimate art show By ANDREA FINEMAN JUSTICE EDITOR
JULIAN AGIN-LIEBES/the Justice
WORKS IN PROGRESS: Two paintings hang in the studio.
Every year, the Fine Arts department holds an exhibition of the senior Studio Art majors’ work at the end of the first semester. Brushes With Greatness: Midyear Exhibition will take place this year, as in previous years, in the Dreitzer Gallery in the Spingold Theater Center. Our fellow students have been painting feverishly to prepare for the exhibition. The selection of paintings was only finalized and placed on the walls yesterday, according to Miriam von Guggenberg ’10, a Studio Art major. The artists each discussed their work individually with Prof. Joe Wardwell (FA) last week and brought their paintings to the Dreitzer Gallery yesterday to make final decisions and arrange the work in the gallery space. Like most Brandeis students, this year’s crop of senior studio majors have a variety of interests and a variety of directions they plan to go in life. Though many of
the students who spoke to the Justice said they were considering a higher degree in creative arts, most seemed to be keeping their options open. Said Sarah Palmer ’10, “Though my professors would love to hear it, I am not staying for the postbac program and continuing on to graduate school for an M.F.A., at least not yet. I plan to student teach next fall to complete the requirements for a teaching certificate in secondary education. I am planning to apply to some service corps afterward and am toying with the idea of a master’s in art therapy.” “After Brandeis I’m hoping to join the Peace Corps for a few years before coming back and going to graduate school,” said Deborah Maxey ’10. The show will provide a valuable opportunity to see one of the last campus exhibitions of these students’ work before they graduate. The opening reception will take place today from 5 to 7 p.m. The paintings will be up until the end of the semester.
JULIAN AGIN-LIEBES/the Justice
RENAISSANCE MAN: “Art makes me feel like a human rather than a science robot,” says Adam Ryave ’10, who plans to attend medical school.
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FLOOR PAINTING: A student sits and works on her painting.
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LADIES IN RED: A painting stands in the Prospect Street Studio.