Author: Matthew Kroen

Title of Event: Annual Student Art Gala

Date & Time: Tuesday, April 11th, 7p.m.

Location of Event: Samek Art Gallery

Type of Event: Art Exhibition

Title of Event: Juana Estrada Hernandez Lecture

Date and time of event: Tuesday March 21^st 5 pm

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. 

            Ms. Hernandez gave an approximately 1 hour long lecture, beginning with her background as a child immigrant and how her lack of citizenship affected her. She then touched on how the DACA program allowed her to go to college while proceeding to expound on how much of the discussion relating to migrants in the past decade have affected her work as an artist, both in her creation of traditional prints, but also more modern ideas of sculpture that adapted her work with print making.

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?

            Throughout the talk, Ms. Hernandez did a phenomenal job of describing how her experiences led to her focusing her work on depictions of migrants. Additionally, I found much of her descriptions of moving between print making and sculpture and her struggles in using the materials she found important (e.g. thermal blankets) in her printmaking endeavors really interesting. The parallels between it and our adapting the Metaphorms projects in order to 3D print them were intriguing, though her work is admittedly at a much larger scale.

3.) What information, ideas, images, etc. most impressed you and why?

Her mentions of moving between sculpture and printmaking through an exchange program as a graduate student were fascinating because of their differences, but also how she applied her lithography techniques to the creation of the sculptures which used larger physical objects.

4.) Overall, how would you rate this event (10 being the most worthwhile)?

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5.) Justify your rating in the question above:

I thought she was an excellent speaker, and she did an extremely effective job of conveying the impacts of her families history on her work, even to an individual who has never experienced much of what she was describing.

Title of Event: Anthony Cervino Art Exhibition
Date & Time of Event: Thursday, January 26, 6pm
Location of Event: Holmes 103
Type of event: Artist exhibition and reception

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 )

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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.