Ships and Shadows--One Week Only!

Black Night Ship, Arthur Schaller

For this week only, the Chaplin Hall Gallery features a preview of Arthur Schaller's Ships and Shadows, a series of 16 collages begun during Vermont Artists Week at the Vermont Studio Center in May 2012 and completed in December 2012.  Schaller assembles the collages from surfaces cut or torn from printed material, using no drawing, painting, or digital manipulation.  

Gift Ship, Arthur Schaller

Schaller is an architect/artist living in Northfield, Vermont where he is a faculty member in the School of Architecture and Art at Norwich University. He has been obsessively exploring collage environments assembled from surfaces found in printed material for twenty years. 

Gold Ship Floral Object, Arthur Schaller

Much of Schaller's work is in a series format.  In each series, a guiding theme or concept is explored and exhausted (though it may mutate or return at a later date), thus making room for a new influence. He has completed 14 Series consisting of over 250 individual works. All strive for a balance between abstract formal two-dimensional composition and speculative spatial realism.

Gold Ship Red Object, Arthur Schaller

Lyrical, haunting, humorous--Schaller leaves it to viewers to decipher the meaning of his carefully crafted ships and their shadows. He would welcome your insights at schaller@norwich.edu

Delta T 90 Weather Underground

Keep on top of campus weather with this link. Thanks to the wonderful folks at the National Guard building near the ∆T90 House, our school weather station now has much more stable connection to Weather Underground. Weather is updated every 10 sections on the weather sticker, and every 5 minutes on the log book at the bottom of the screen. 

On the Road with Second Year Studio

Second year studio is exploring the processes of making and diagraming.  They got up close and personal with glass blowing at Simon Pearce’s workshop in Windsor, VT, and looked at aboriginal paintings and maps at the Hood Museum at Dartmouth in Hanover, NH.  Next up, making 3-D diagrams of the process of glassblowing.

Living on the Edge

Study of Thermal Baths at Vals led to the creation of this video, a beautiful abstraction of water, as part of Edge Studio. Students of Edge Studio researched and analyzed 5 different precedent case study museums:

L'Institute Du Monde Arab

The De Young Museum

The Thermal Baths at Vals (looking at the building as a museum of water)

The Beyeler Foundation

The Cartier Foundation

Shown below are concept models, developed from their research, that attempt to capture the essence of the museums.

A New Exhibition for the New Year!