The Sawhill Memorial Gallery stands in memory to the original Sawhill Gallery, which stood just steps away, and to the directors who oversaw its programming.
The wood-lined walls mimic those that lined the old gallery's walls; its accessible location is an homage to Stuart Downs and Gary Freeburg, who played major roles in elevating the visibility of the arts within the School of Art, Design and Art History and throughout the JMU campus. This humble nod affirms SADAH as a place of vital discussion in the visual and all that the visual asks of us.
ART 320: INTERMEDIATE CERAMICS: MOLDS AND CASTING
Project: Exquisite Corpse
This assignment is based on the surrealist drawing game (The Exquisite Corpse) in which participants create a collaborative drawing without seeing each other's contributions. The images often take the form of a figure, with each artist drawing one portion of the form and other artists drawing the other portions.
Materials: Earthenware clay, Cone 04 underglazes and glazes
Tools: Hands, found objects
Artists: Paulus Berensohn, Ingrid Bathe, Syd Carpenter
To create exquisite corpses in clay, each student starts by using press-molds and other forming processes to make 3 separate body parts with consistent dimensions:
- A head with a 3-inch diameter neck
- A torso with a 3-inch neck and a 4-inch waist
- Legs/feet with a 4 inch waist
Each student keeps their head and is randomly assigned a torso and legs created by other students. Then, each artist must combine and intergrate their assigned parts to create collaborative figure sculptures.
