spotlight on students - the art and craft of portraiture and presence in the Ina Dillard Library

Spotlight on Students

Evan Leavitt, Facilities Manager, of the Ina Dillard Library generously prepared a unique location for the ceramics art students to present their self-portraits with the books they love. Identity through clay was on their mind as they created additional content for their installation.

GCSU ceramics art students are exhibiting their project “Presence” October 31 through November 16, 2023,  in the Ina Dillard Library. After a tedious learning exercise in figurative modeling, they found themselves in the great company of past sculptors who thought about the art of portraiture as unique artistic experience where representation and idealization must be negotiated. This group of students created self-portraits in order to experience the process of working as both artist and subject. What an unusual place from which to create! Their critical reflection work uncovered not only a duplicitous relationship, but that they found themselves negating the self in order to accomplish the creative act of making as an artist. Have a look and you will see the presence of each student within an object.

#who we are #identity through books #GCSU students # Ceramic art #the figure in clay #artist as subject

Ceramics ARTS3510 Students: Katy Boatright, Hayden Bryant, Emma Holm, Sarah Krivsky, Jessalyn McEwen, Emmy Murphy, Bristol Parker, Ellen Patton