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“The Visiting Artists Program helped me further develop the skills of artistic observation and critique outside of the art studio.” —Witt Fetter ’13
Visiting artist Andy Giordano speaks with a student from a Photography I class in the Potter Gallery during his fall exhibit, Going Home. ROBERT FALCETTI
She likes to tell artists who are coming to visit, “Don’t worry about being too adult about it. These kids are smart. They get it, and they don’t like being talked down to!” When artist Mark Lewis was in residence for a week in 2014, he gave Chickadaunce’s advanced and A.P. art students a critique on their work as well. “He’s a teacher, and 48
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he responded so well to them. In a discussion where the ideas were just whirling around the room, he would take this idea and that one and tie them up in a neat bow, and you’d ask yourself, ‘How’d he do that?’” For Nicole Jarck ’15, the visiting artists allowed her to experience a variety of artwork without leaving campus. “I really loved Mark Lewis’s
work. I remember his Morning Meeting presentation and how much I admired his attention to detail, which led to the unique nature of each of his pieces,” she says. Each gallery show offered a new perspective and enriched my education in the visual arts. I was able to broaden my understanding of much more than the aesthetic qualities of artwork.