The Gatepost

By Samantha Rawson Editorial Staff Did you know FSU offers ceramics as a concentration? If the answer is no, that’s OK – not many people do. Students majoring in studio art have the option of declaring a concentration in one of several mediums. There are the more common fields, such as painting and teaching art. [...]

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By Joe Kourieh Arts & Features Editor Still life revisited Sophomore art studio major Sarah Libby undertook a classic artistic project – a series of still life paintings – for her Painting Methods class with Professor Brian Bishop.  The first of the two paintings was of the “cool analogous” variety, and featured darker, cooler colors, [...]

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By Joe Kourieh Arts & Features Editor The past two weeks, senior student artists have been displaying their projects in the yearly senior art thesis exhibition in the Mazmanian Art Gallery. Art professor and director of the gallery Tim McDonald said that the senior thesis exhibition is “a year-long project that senior art studio majors do [...]

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By Joe Kourieh Arts & Features Editor   Patience and pottery: Perhaps the most valuable skill that junior Julie Cain-Mailly has developed in her independent study in art has been that of persistence. For although one may take something simple like a clay pot for granted, creating them requires patience, time and tenderness. Cain-Mailly described [...]

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By Joe Kourieh Arts & Features Editor   The phrase “multi-media” is taken to new heights in 2012’s first exhibit at the Mazmanian Art Gallery, which features the works of the company FableVision. FableVision is a Boston-based multi-media production company whose team of artists creates works across a drastically varied range of incarnations, including paintings, [...]

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The ‘Master Soup’:  Though many view video game playing as a waste of time, senior art major Megan Butler put her gaming experience to good use, using a classic Nintendo character as the inspiration for a project in her Three Dimensional Design class. Her piece “You’ve found a Bowl of Ramen” acts as a combination [...]

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By Casie Richardson Editorial Staff When you walk by the Mazmanian Art Gallery in the College Center, you may find Michael Caniff and Rachel Klass immersed in a sea of art.  They are not only admiring the work, but they are selecting pieces and making important decisions about placement.  The artists are not the only [...]

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By Keir Cullen Janey Asst. Arts & Features Editor   Elise Richman came to FSU on Tuesday, Nov. 15 to shed light on her thought-provoking “Place no Place” exhibit, on display from Nov. 14 – Dec. 16, in the Mazmanian Art Gallery. Richman began working on her nature-inspired paintings in the summer of 2009. She [...]

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By Joe Kourieh Arts & Features Editor Bear Essentials: Junior fashion design major Rachel Nault’s series of illustrations, which she lovingly dubbed “Teddy Study,” portrays several objects in several different modes. As a visual prompt, professor John Anderson layed out ordinary objects still-life style, and let students choose which to use as their focus. Nault [...]

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Artist’s pieces bring together the mediums of visual art, music and meteorological science.

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