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Parks art exhibit offers a voice to unheard artists

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Olivia Nobles Staff Writer Troy University’s Rosa Parks Museum in Montgomery will be partnering with Valiant Cross Academy for a temporary art exhibit featuring all African American artists beginning on Jan. 17. The exhibit, “Down South: From the Souls of African American Artists of Alabama,” features work from more than 30 artists, all of whose names can be found on the Troy University Rosa Parks Museum Facebook page under the “Down South” event description.  Madeline Burkhardt, the Rosa Parks Museum adult education coordinator, emphasized the importance of outsider art as…

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Art students draw human physique

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Taylor Walding Variety Editor In life drawing class, one of the required courses for a bachelor of fine arts degree, students learn to draw the human physique by sketching undressed models during class. According to Pam Allen, the chair of the art department, this is the most important class for art students, as they learn to draw what they see as accurately as possible. “It’s not an easy skill,” Allen said. “It takes practice, sometimes years.” She said working with a live model gives a unique perspective to the artist,…

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Art exhibition displayed work from 18 alumni

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Georgia Blanchard Chief Copy Editor The Department of Art and Design recently hosted “Back to the Future,” an art exhibition that showcased the work of 18 alumni in the Huo Bao Zhu Gallery of the International Arts Center on campus. The exhibition ran from Aug. 14 to Nov. 5, but an artists’ reception was held Nov. 1 to bring more attention to the exhibit before it was taken down. Greg Skaggs, an associate professor of art and design and the curator of the Huo Bao Zhu Gallery, personally chose and…

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Showcase marries dance and art

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Olivia Nobles Staff Writer Troy’s Department of Theater and Dance and Department of Art and Design are busy preparing their art and dance showcase “Art in Motion,” which will open Thursday, Nov. 8. The production will marry the creations of dance students with those of art students. “Normally, the fall show is all student choreography,” said Olivia Tompkins, a sophomore dance major from Jacksonville. “The premise for this show is that we were each assigned an artist from a collaborative class, and we worked together throughout the semester.” Kara Justice,…

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Student discusses benefits of required fine arts classes

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Olivia Nobles Contributor Though it may seem like a useless requirement for every college student to have to take a fine arts class to complete his or her undergraduate degree, it is important for students to try and see the value of their more artistically inclined classes. As a fine arts minor, I may seem biased when I assert an art education is beneficial for everyone, but years of research back me up on this. A study from 2002 done by the Arts Education Partnership demonstrates children who were exposed …

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