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After an application process in the fall, the freshmen involved in FACES spent much of the second semester participating in what Sullivan calls “community-building arts workshops,” creating work to be presented at the Arts First showcase. The end product will be a unique event, according to Sullivan: “It will be a multimedia living art exhibit of music, acrobatics, photography, film, painting, and live performance exploring the concept of identity...
Though many people have encouraged her along the way, Fang names Lingford, her adviser and mentor, as a particularly important influence on her work. Lingford was happy to help with the process. “I was lucky enough to be Lily Fang’s thesis adviser, and I watched ‘Shapeshifter’ develop over the year,” she says...
...approached her thesis advisor Ruth S. Lingford with an ambitious proposal. “If it had been any other student, I would have advised her that combining Maya 3D digital animation with hand drawing and puppetry was way too ambitious. But Lily has a steely determination and a work ethic that is exceptional even for Harvard, and I am delighted to see that I was right to trust her,” says Lingford. Fang’s thesis “Shapeshifter,” now in the final stages of production, is a mixed-media film about...
Fang looks forward to the showing. “Last year, they screened our work outside on the side of Widener. I thought that was really cool, the mix of the texture of the wall with the projected scenes. I would like to see ‘Shapeshifter’ displayed that...
Fang is also a gifted painter and illustrator; her work has appeared in Tuesday Magazine and The Harvard Advocate. And when President Drew Faust opened up Massachusetts Hall to an exhibition of student art in 2008, Fang’s painting “Self-Portrait” was welcomed into the showcase. Fang even explores the arts in her free time by playing clarinet in the Harvard Wind Ensemble. “I figured out I wanted to concentrate in VES pretty soon,” says Fang. “I basically extend it into every part...