Title of Event: Six-Second Delay Lecture
Date and time of event: Thursday, January 26, 5:00pm
Location of Event: Holmes Auditorium
Type of Event: Guest Artist Lecture
1.) Provide a brief detail-oriented technical description or summary of the event you attended. (This section should remain journalistic and should not be reflective of your opinion.)
Anthony Cervino gave an hour-long lecture with approximately 15 minutes of questions following the lecture. During the lecture, he discussed his overall background, along with how that background tied into his sculptures. Additionally, he spent some time discussing activities that he participates in that are related to the arts, but not directly related to his creation of sculpture.
2.) Use the section below to write a well-structured paragraph focusing on your personal critical insight/response to the event. How did you interpret or react to what was presented to you?
Even without being told that Cervino was an art professor, it was apparent that he was some form of teacher based on how he spoke. While he was not the most eloquent speaker, he was very passionate about his work, but also didn’t exclusively focus on it. He showed many examples of his art, but the vast majority of the time it was tied in with events in his background, and he was using works as examples of how an artist can draw from their life experience to find inspiration, something that I, a person who doesn’t consider themselves particularly creative found very valuable.
3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?
I was most impressed with how focused he was on sculptures that were based on his life events, even the things that most would consider fairly inconsequential like radios and old plastic figurines.
4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)?
(10 / 9 / 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 / 3 / 2 / 1 )
8
5.) Justify your rating in the question above:
I was really impressed by his passion and he did a very good job keeping me entertained. I also felt that some of his advice about where to get inspiration was very interesting.