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10:00-11:00
More Than Flesh
Student Art Exhibit in the Ideal Center (Library)
Brigid Klaft, Angela Christian
"More Than Flesh” is a multimedia art installation which showcases the creative work of two Franklin Pierce seniors. The installation was originally created last semester for an event sponsored by the Women In Leadership Certificate Program on Campus. Each piece, which includes an artistic rendition of a woman’s vagina and an original piece of writing, tells a story. The abstract vaginas were created primarily from ordinary or unimpressive materials, revealing the hidden nature of such objects in the art of storytelling. From these pieces the poetry was written, creating a character and bringing each vaginas story to light. The motivation for the project was to expose to viewers how different each vaginas story is, comforting those who struggle with self-image or societal expectations by speaking up for their experiences, and relating to viewers the fact that a womans vagina contains many aspects of what makes them who they are. In other words, the goal of the project was to impress onto society the fact that vaginas are more than just flesh.
10:00-12:00
Student Archaeology Open House
Open House in Marcucella Hall Room 129
Ameryca Freeman, Benjamin Heaney, Roslyn Hodgkins
Since 2001, Franklin Pierce archaeology students have excavated at more than twenty Native American and early historic period archaeological sites across the Monadnock Region and in the central Merrimack River valley. Sites date from 12,600 years before present to the mid-18th century French and Indian War period, and include the Paleoindian Tenant Swamp site in Keene, the Swanzey Fish dam site, the Raft Bridge site in Peterborough, and the Wantastiquet Mountain site in Hinsdale. Artifacts from these sites, including stone tools, decorated ceramics, and the remains of timber rattlesnakes will be on display. Senior theses and academic publications authored by Franklin Pierce students and faculty and interpretive posters will provide details on specific sites, and Franklin Pierce archaeology students will be available to answer questions and discuss their excavation experience. Research at these sites has illuminated the long and complex human history of New Hampshire, and continues a tradition of archaeological research at Franklin Pierce that began in the 1960s.
11:00-1:00
Glassblowing Demonstration
Demonstration in the Glassblowing Shed
Liamber Mcfarland, Breana Coleman
Using teamwork, students will demonstrate the construction of forms in hot glass by heating and manipulating the material and exploring the fluidity of the heated borosilicate. There are many steps to creating simple forms whether functional or sculptural. These include gathering, shaping and blowing. More complex forms require a series of steps and control of the movement of the hot glass as well as forming techniques using various tools. Additional pieces called bits and wraps will be added to complete the initial forms.
1:00-2:30
Non-Toxic Printmaking
Student Demonstration in Petrocelli Hall Room 224
Angela Christian, Ameryca Freeman
Students will introduce the use of the new lithographic “century plates” as invented by Dwight Pogue an artist whose work was recently featured in our Thoreau Gallery. Drawings on the century plate will be processed in the studio and printed on our etching press. The drawings done by Ameryca Freeman and Angela Christian were done with lithography crayons and sharpie pens on the aluminum century plate, then processed to prepare them for printing on paper. This is a new technique that uses soy and corn-based products in the processing instead of the traditional petroleum products that create dangerous fumes. This is the first breakthrough for printmakers who love the drawn imagery associated with lithographs but do not want to use dangerous chemicals. The results are dramatic.
All Day
Handmade Books
Located in the Library Display Case
Louis Tabak, Aliyah Carroll, Breana Coleman, Patrick McCarthy, Liam Robinson
An exhibition of student work from the GC320 Book Design class. This includes handmade and illustrated books in two formats that predate the codex book. The scroll book is based on an ancient format of the book used in ancient Egyptian, Greek, Roman, Middle Eastern, and East Asian cultures. The scroll books in this exhibition are the student’s interpretation of a journey. Each student constructed, arranged wrote and illustrated their concepts in hand scroll format. The students will also be displaying their Palm Books, another ancient book format that originally used palm leaves; it had its beginning in South Asia during the 5th Century BCE and spread to India and Egypt. The palm books in this exhibition are an exploration of the student’s names (first, middle, last, nicknames, etc.) and the meaning and history of these names. These books are constructed, written and illustrated by each student.