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Addy’s Prom Night cont.! February 27, 2011

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At about six last night, I had gotten all gussied up for prom night and  a couple of my friends (my dates; students who helped with addy’s too) came and picked me up.  I even got to descend a flight of stairs when this happened. (They were concrete, but it was still pretty sweet.)

The Fort Wayne Museum of Art looked amazing, and there were all kinds of delicious foods out for us.  Everyone was dressed to impress of course in their prom finery–bow ties and pearls abound.  We didn’t have much time to look at the work, but we had helped hang the show (which went off without a hitch) so we had already seen everything.  And then all of us Saint Francis students, and some IPFW students too, had our prom pic taken by a guy with a giant afro.

After the drinking and mingling came to a peak, we all got together and watched the awards being displayed in movie format on a huge projector.  In between categories we got to see lots of bad, goofy, sometimes frightening dancing, which was hilarious and awesome.  Some really spectacular adverting and design too; from self promotional designs, to web design, television commercials, logo design, everything from all sorts of agencies in the Fort Wayne area.  Agencies like:  One Lucky Guitar, Boyden and Youngblutt, Britton Marketing, BIG, LaBov and Beyond.  Some of the clients you might recognize like Parkview, the Indiana State Fair, Fort Wayne Airport, and Vera Bradley.

Then came the student category.  One of our students got around six or seven addy awards!  AND my date won best in show for the students!  AND I got a gold addy for my LGBTQ article about gay bullying leading to suicides among young men!  All in all, Saint Francis completely owned in the student section.

Needless to say it was a magical evening.

Art shows to go see December 15, 2010

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1. Maurice Papier Paintings in Lupke Gallery in North Campus building

Information on the exhibit:  http://www.sf.edu/sf/news/soca-concert

Maurice Papier’s site:   http://www.mauricepapier.com/

2.  Artlink Show:  8th Artlink Regional Exhibition

Information: http://www.artlinkfw.com/

3. Fort Wayne Museum of Art Opening December 11

Information: http://www.fwmoa.org/

4.  Ceramics show in Rolland Building.  AMAZING ceramicists from around the country!!!!

Information on show: http://www.sf.edu/sf/news/national-ceramics-invitational

I’ll admit it.  I only went to two of these four shows so far but I am planning on seeing the others and you should too.  First of all, if you are a bit slow and haven’t seen the amazing newly renovated Fort Wayne Museum of Art,  you definitely should.

Second of all—I can assure you that Maurie Papier’s show is pretty cool and you should definitely see it.  Even if you don’t know anything about art, you will definitely appreciate it.  Since I’m an art major, I have to admit, like all the others, “I had to go, I’m on scholarship.”  But I was actually pretty pumped about this one since I actually got to take Maury for painting before he retired and he’s a really cool guy.  As a side note, I met my two-year roommate in that class too before Residential Life even assigned us to each other.

I did this in Maury's class my freshman year

He works a lot in multimedia, and it looks like he layers a lot of his work and uses different watercolor techniques like salt to create really stunner effects.  His color palette is really freaking pretty, and all his compositions are strong and defined.  He plays with depth a lot too, which is interesting to me.  And he collages a lot things into his work.  What’s probably the most impressive though, is even though he layers all his elements together, they end up making a very solid piece and you can’t quite figure out what he painted and what he added.  Sometimes his images are so clean and well put together you can barely detect the medium.  Not that you need me to egg you on but…. Go Maury!