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...faculty of the Department of Visual and Environmental Studies will be displaying their works at the Carpenter Center through next Sunday, Feb. 29. Featured faculty-artists include Tom Butter, Elinor Carucci, Julian Lethbridge, Michaela Pavlatova and Elaine Reichek. The sculpture of Tom Butter, a Visiting Lecturer in the department, transform a mix of materials to bring form to abstract ideas, as his course VES 130r, “Idea into Form,” promises to teach. The work of Michaela Pavlatova, the Prague-born animator, is also particularly noteworthy. Free. Monday through Saturday...
...Look, we always wear black," says Reichek, as students nod solemnly or chuckle. After the class ends, the truth comes out. A student admits that the class's attire had in fact been planned in the studio the night before after TF Jennifer E. Mergel '98 announced that a Crimson reporter would attend the next class. Apparently, the group generated the idea of subverting the "artsy" stereotype, representing themselves as exactly that for the reporter's benefit...
While most of the College's VES courses are designed to teach the artistic use of a particular medium, Reichek's class focuses instead on the conceptualization of art. The students are encouraged to formulate an idea and then find the material best suited to bringing it to fruition in the semester's four projects...
Students say a multi-media approach to visual art is uncommon in the VES department's offerings this year. Reichek, a New York City-based artist, requires students to find their own materials and allots each a budget of $250 to purchase them. For a recent "Trash as Art" project, Reichek showed slides and spoke about what contemporary artists have done in terms of turning refuse into art. She equipped students with reading selections and questions about the meaning of 'trash,' then sent them off to work on projects of their...
...With Elaine [Reichek], it's more like working with an actual artist, and less of a teaching relationship," O'Reilly says. "It's like nothing I've ever done before...