Artifact [BOLD] 2024.
OPEN MARCH 18 TO APRIL 5, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION & KEYNOTE SPEECH WEDNESDAY, MARCH 27 FROM 4:30 TO 6:00 PM
When we first conceived of the Artifact [BOLD] exhibition, we did so with a specific vision: to create a space that celebrates path-breaking design and honors both the legacy and the future of design education at High Point University.
The designers who have generously shared their work with the High Point University community this year have allowed us to do just that. The work that is a part of Artifact [BOLD] 2024 is thought-provoking, forthright, and powerfully reflective of cultural moments.
Whether they are building immersive environments that evoke emotional responses, producing concept-driven type, illustration, or sequence systems, or experimenting with narrative and form across media, the designer’s most fundamental role is to create objects to facilitate the exchange of information. But the designer’s role goes beyond that of being a simple conduit of information. Designers also hold the power, through what they create, to communicate ideas, to question entrenched systems, to propose new solutions, and to envision a different world. Artifact [BOLD] 2024 offers viewers an opportunity to reflect on design’s power to question, to provoke, to bridge, to heal.
As we celebrate Artifact [BOLD] 2024, we express our gratitude: to the wonderful Kaleena Sales, whose astute sensibility as a juror has crafted this diverse, exciting collection; to High Point University’s Art and Graphic Design faculty and students, who have lent their expertise to creating an intentional exhibition space; and, most of all, to the designers who have answered our call with a body of work that holds the power to help us all see the world anew.
Thank you,
Emily Gerhold Exhibition Co-Director Director, Sechrest Art Gallery Janis Dougherty Exhibition Co-Director Senior Instructor of Graphic DesignSkylar U’Glay
Exhibition Designer SechrestArt Gallery Program
ManagerDesigners, faculty, and current graduate students Professional
Andrea Hempstead WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Riso print; digital work on paper
Dan Hale KEYS Physical Animation
Alireza Vaziri Rahimi FOOD WASTE Posters and AR
Christina Singer GOLDEN Digital print
Cuetlaxochitl(Poinsettia) Paper book
Dan Martin WP V1–56 Digital print on archival paper
Statement:
Danielle Langdon CUETLAXOCHITL (POINSETTIA) Paper book
Cuetlaxochitl(Poinsettia) is a narrative poem with a transitional experience with my father-in-law to my mother in our childhood work, I explore my experiences with various universal themes: Using poetic phrases and forms, I construct narratives of experiences. The accordion paper books imply a sense of motion and depth.
After the unexpected death of my father -in-law, I impulsively
died. It was the first poem I had written in over 20 years.
WITNESSES
UNCERTAIN FUTURE
AN EXPLORATION OF JOY Screenprint
Angela Wells
#FLOWERSFORLOVE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
RED VELVET
Digital Van Dyke Hybrid
Edward Rushton
WHERE’S MY FLAG: “AMERICAN FLAG, CONFEDERATE FLAG, CELTIC CROSS, ODAL RUNE, SONNERNRAD, SS BOLTS, WOLFSANGEL” 2-ply rag
Alba Conejero Gutierrez
Anna Jordan
SOLENOID A STORY THAT HAPPENS Book covers
Danqi Cai
FEMALE + CHILD = GOOD
Handmade paper, hidden collage, and animation projection
TO RAISE / TO DISCARD
Handmade paper and animation projection
FILIAL PIETY / “I GAVE YOU YOUR LIFE”
Handmade paper, collage, and animation projection
BOOM TIMES FOR THE END OF THE WORLDMis Colores
Erica Holeman UPSIDE
This poster proposes the recognition of pluriversal visual languages as a way to expand canonical design history and stories. Embracing all visual cultural identities, practices, and ways of living is an important first step to center decolonial design in our classrooms and practice. Highlighting everyone’s innate visual languages as forms of expression that are unique and unrepeatable, helps come closer to oppressed, hidden, or marginalized visual cultures.
Poster, Mixed media illustration (generative analog collage, digitized)
Gaby Hernandez
MIS COLORES
Poster, Mixed media illustration (generative analog collage, digitized)
Jillian Ohl
GIVING MURDER A GOOD NAME
Ink, watercolor, digital composition
HIDDEN MESSAGES
Akua Ink, 1618 Arnhem Cotton Rag Paper
Mehrdad Sedaghat Baghbani
UNITY IS STRENGTH Poster and AR
Natalie Tyree GOD WILLING AND THE CREEK DON’T RISE Letterpress and AR
Rodgers
THE WATERFALL Ink, gold leaf, animation
Jeff Murphy CREST Digital composite - ink jet print on aluminum Kevin Mercer A RECORD OF THINGS TOO UGLY ZineJamie Runnels (MOSTLY) RED THINGS
Colored pencil and gouache digitally collaged
HOMESICK
Mixed media digitally collaged
SO.MUCH.TO.UNPACK
Gouache on illustration board
Meaghan Dee
WOMEN LIFE FREEDOM
Photographed/scanned image of human hair
VOTE SO YOU WILL HAVE A CHOICE
Digital Illustration
TOLERANCE
Digital illustration
LA SILLA VACIA
Envelope format book
THREAD Woven accordian book
THE CRUMMY YEARS Accordian book
Melinda Eckley PoseyShannon McCarthy
HOLIDAY CARDS
Cards and stickers
AN AMERICAN PORTRAIT Poster, book, animation
Summer Doll-Myers
SCOLIOSIS BLUE Digital composition
Ting Wang-Hedges THESE TRYING TIMES - BEING CHINESE IN AMERICA THEN AND NOW
Screen print and digital print on Shimarein paper
Valentina IN EXCHANGE FOR FREEDOM
Acrylic on canvas and found ice skates
