Arts Week & Symposium Day 2023
Pixel Hunter Student Film & Animation Festival
Monday, April 17 at 7:00pm – Emery Community Arts Center
A collection of experimental short films and animations created by UMF students.
Faculty Sponsor: Dawn Nye
UMF Arts Night – Tuesday, April 18th, 6:00-8:00pm – Emery Community Arts Center
-6:00pm: Opening Reception: Kelly Gentilo(Wilson Scholar), Cooger and Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show: An Installation; Emery Lower-Level Lobby Alcove
Ray Bradbury’s novel, Something Wicked This Way Comes, was required reading in sixth grade of my Catholic middle school and has stuck with me ever since causing a complex relationship between the book, religion, and myself. During the 2022-2023 school year, I took the book and altered many of the pages via drawings and blacked-out passages, among other alterations. The work expanded outward from the altered book to an installation piece involving a soundscape and four carousel horse drawings on the walls to simulate an experience of stepping inside a mysterious carousel. This piece concerns themes of religion, childhood, and the reclamation of a text.
-6:00pm: On view: Primordial Soup: Senior Thesis Exhibition
Emery Flex Space Gallery
Primordial Soup features the artwork of UMF senior art majors Elly Bernard, Jett Jordan, Gavyn Moreshead, Ana Rogers and Emma Wallace, and represents the culmination of their capstone research. This multi-media group show includes sculpture, painting, drawing, digital art and animation, and engages themes of entertainment, horror, physical labor, and political agendas. Primordial Soup will be on view in Emery’s Flex Space Gallery from April 6 – May 6, 2023. Emery Community Arts Center is located behind Merrill Hall at 224 Main Street and is open Mon.-Fri. 10 am-6 pm; Sat. 12 pm-6 pm; closed Sundays and holidays. The Division of the Arts sponsors this exhibition.
-6:20pm: Announcement of the Elsie C. Grote Scholarship Award
Emery Performance Space
This competitive scholarship is awarded annually to a “full-time junior or senior female student, of meritorious academic standing, with preference given to those who have exhibited proficiency in one of the creative arts.”
-6:30pm: Morgan Steward, Project III Capstone Performance: Quiet Roar
Emery Performance Space
This piece is about how ADHD and anxiety affects me presently and how it has shaped me into the person I have come to be. It is mostly a comedic piece with a serious, more dramatic ending. I have combined the use of lighting as well as dialogue and stage direction to bring the audience into this experience.
-7:00pm: Original Music at UMF
Emery Performance Space:
Current students Shaina Fusco, Soren Hatfield, Tammy Lang, Emily Moore, Gavyn Moreshead, Pyam Morin, Lauren Preis, and Alice Staples will present a wide ranging program of original works created at UMF this year.
Symposium Day-April 19, 2023:
Education Student Showcase
Wednesday, April 19th (time TBD)
Emery Community Arts Center
Students in Dr. Cara Furman’s EDU 333 write “how the world came to be books” as a group project. Students begin this project by going outside and taking a picture of a natural item. They research this item. They read a number of folktales that tell the origin stories of particular plants and animals. Then they write their own about their item. Through this project they work through group dynamics, learn how to teach literacy, practice their own writing and drawing so they can teach writing better, and create an original story based on a natural item in Farmington that they can share with children. They then reflect on how they could bring this project to work with children in developing a meaningful integrated curriculum.The project brings together nature based education, social studies, science, art, and literacy. For symposium day, my class will create a display to highlight the curriculum –choosing key artifacts, captioning them, and then displaying them in chronological order to tell the story of our work. This will mirror a common means of sharing curriculum in progressive b-third contexts. We will also share our products. Participants will be students from EDU 333 Fall semester and EDU 333 Spring Semester. While primarily a visual display, students from the Spring Semester and a few interested from the Fall will sign up to walk visitors through our “museum.”
BA in Visual Arts Senior Exhibition Artist Talks
Wednesday, April 19th at 2:00pm
Flex Space Gallery, Emery Community Arts Center
Seniors in the Visual Arts Program will discuss their thesis art show, Primordial Soup. This exhibit features Elly Bernard, Jett Jordan, Gavyn Moreshead, Ana Rogers and Emma Wallace, and represents the culmination of their capstone research. The show includes sculpture, painting, drawing, digital art and animation, and engages themes of entertainment, horror, physical labor, and political agendas. Each student will give an artist talk that presents the ideas, research and processes that inspired their thesis work.
A Reading by the Students in Advanced Fiction
Wednesday, April 19th at 4:00pm
Emery Community Arts Center
The students in Lewis Robinson’s current semester of ENG310-Advanced Fiction Writing will each read a three-minute excerpt from a work-in-progress. Throughout the spring, the students will facilitate their own “Portrait of the Artist” workshop in which they describe a source of inspiration (visual art, music, film, etc) before presenting their fiction. For this Symposium event, each student will choose a projected image to accompany
their reading. Participating students include: Julia Anise, Horisun
Antunee, Gwyn Ash, Adelle Belanger, Katherine Berube, Autumn Koors Foltz, Leo Goddard, Bekah Knights, Sean Maher, Jacob Mouser, Annie Newman, Alexis Sack, Haley Sewell, Ashley Ward, and Venus Wright.