Volume 36 Issue 34 - July 24, 2014

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July 24, 2014

Volume 36, Issue 34

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MSU Denver assistant professor of art Anne Hallam, right, demonstrates how to make a three dimensional paper manipulation, as Erin Chan watches her direction. Hallam led the Paper Manipulations: 3-D Investigations Workshop at the CVA in Denver, July 10. Photo by Philip Poston • pposton1@msudenver.edu

MetroSpective The CVA does its “Paper Work” By Stephanie Alderton salderto@msudenver.edu A mathematician who teaches art workshops might not seem to add up, but it did at the recent “Paper Manipulations” workshop, held July 10 at Center for Visual Art. The CVA usually hosts a workshop or artist lecture related to each new gallery show. The Paper Manipulations workshop accompanied its current exhibit, “Paper Work.” The workshop was taught by two MSU

Denver professors: Anne Hallam, an assistant art professor whose work appears in the exhibit, and Ben Dyhr, an assistant professor of mathematics. In a stuff y room behind the gallery, they each led two projects designed to please both creative and logical minds, all using paper. Hallam showed students how to make three-dimensional casts of objects using papier-machê, which is a technique she used in her “Paper Work” display. She also demonstrated a more complex art called “honeycombing,” in which the artist glues narrow strips of paper together to make a

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