ART + ENVIRONMENT 2000 - 2014
ROB CLARKE, ARCHITECTURE, RWU, ROLLING SITE PLAN
In 2000, I first designed courses in visual art to address the theory and practice of Public Art based on environmental monuments in world art, together with archaeological theory. The first course was my contribution to a new curriculum project for partner colleges abroad as program manager at the Institute for International Liberal Education at Bard College. As a painter, I've draw perceptually on location to analyze land forms, architectural environments. The drawings are broadly informed by my other career in archaeology. While researching archaeological sites at home and abroad, (Mongolia, Lithuania), I learned how vividly landscapes can signify collective beliefs as well as the personal dimensions of political histories.
In the ART + ENVIRONMENT courses, we examine the personal and societal dimensions of Public Art and examine what can be added to the idea of public art, such as, an interpretation of our historical imagination regarding the environment. Two questions unify our work with imagery and objects. How does our new generation view relations between environment, world histories and culture? How do members of the new generation experience the ecological world in light of knowledge about behaviors evolved within it from earlier times?
In 2012 students in Rhode Island, took a long view of spiritual activities and political behaviors associated with the environment in ancient and modern times. Majors from visual art and architecture to graphic design and liberal arts majors created imagery that placed the individual in the environment in its broadest philosophical sense.
Archaeologist's Field Notebook, 1884* EAS Photograph
In the ART + ENVIRONMENT courses, we examine the personal and societal dimensions of Public Art and examine what can be added to the idea of public art, such as, an interpretation of our historical imagination regarding the environment. Two questions unify our work with imagery and objects. How does our new generation view relations between environment, world histories and culture? How do members of the new generation experience the ecological world in light of knowledge about behaviors evolved within it from earlier times?
In 2012 students in Rhode Island, took a long view of spiritual activities and political behaviors associated with the environment in ancient and modern times. Majors from visual art and architecture to graphic design and liberal arts majors created imagery that placed the individual in the environment in its broadest philosophical sense.
STUDENT PROJECTS
Megan Place
"Re-Inventing a World Heritage Site, Bahama"
Megan responded to the project to "Re-invent the Idea of a World Heritage Site". A gifted, professional sailor, she created imagery from her intimate knowledge of the site of a jet plane crash off the coast of the Bahamas. Set built and photographed by Megan Place.
Sinead Cleary
Re-casting the Early Twentieth Century Novella,"The Siren"
Sinead addressed the project, "Site, Actor, Meaning", by choosing the location and actor for a photo shoot on the Rhode Island coast. She responded to the assignment that required collaboration, and, on location dramatization of a work of literature. In this case, Guiseppi di Lampedusa's, 1957 novella, "The Professor and the Siren".
Jake Cutillo
"Re-imagining a World Heritage Site"
Elizabeth Goodman
"Special Independent Project: Documenting the Accident"
Elizabeth produced an extensive group of photographs for the project, "Site, Actor, Collaboration". She collaborated with family members and medical staff to document the liberation of her leg from its cast after her injury during our collaborative on site fieldwork on the Rhode Island coast.
Joanna Grocott
"Re-designing the Japanese Screen"
Joanna, a student of Architecture, made this work for our Drawing Foundations course. I included it in our Art + Environment archive to show the outcome of the A+E concepts across disciplines. Stunning work, Joanna ! Chiaroscuro, the study of light and shadow, here extends into the environment by means of a three dimensional drawing that enters into interior and exterior space.
Jacqueline Mezzetta
Special Independent Project A Semester Concentration on Glass-Light
Jacqueline responded to each of our eight project assignment through the medium of
glass as surface, as a light projection medium and as an "environmental object."
The "environmental object" in her series of photographs demonstrated how she could orchestrate spatial relationships with glass and light to produce worlds near to us but beyond our simple modes of awareness.
Adrienne White
"Re-Imagining A City"
Adrienne, addressed our second project, "Re-inventing a City" by building
an urban scene in miniature scale. She photographed the staging for a city she created at dawn. She achieved our assignment- 1. To re-imagine the image of a known city, in this case New York City, in another location to create an example of
the "Aesthetics of Time/Distance, Place/Space".
Shannon Inglis
"Collaboration: Site + Actor"
Shannon responded directly and with immediacy to our Mid-Semester Project on Location. Having never visited this site on the Rhode Island Coast before, she collaborated with members of class to produce a set of portraits that would address these tasks: Can we produce a portrait of this generation?
Collaborative project here will involve, Site, Actor, Environment.
Ermelin Moliere
"Re-Imagine a City"
(Print from Jake Cutillo's photograph of an actual circuitry panel)
Bridget Murphy
"Deconstruct + Re-purpose a "Modern" Object"
Actual event: Smashed Ink Jet Vials "Painting"
Bridget created this painting through a preliminary "random" design made by smashing ink vials from used soon-to-be-recycled printers; then spreading their contents while continuing to "dismantle" the mass-produced object. She then photographed its surviving parts for an overlay to the "painting."
PORTRAIT OF A GENERATION
SHANNON ENGLIS, SITE AND ACTOR 2012
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