University students will be playing a prominent role in this weekend’s Art Walk. “Links/Public Art, Bowling Green” is a display with different pieces located all over the city. Many of the works will be in the downtown area, but a shuttle bus will be made available to take visitors to works that are outside the downtown area. The exhibits will be on display during tomorrow and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening works will be on display from 8 until 11 p.m.
The exhibit came from the “Technology, Space and Public Art” class. “It grew out of the class,” said Michelle Illuminato. Illuminato and fellow professor Heather Elliott are instructors for the course. University students will be playing a prominent role in this weekend’s Art Walk. “Links/Public Art, Bowling Green” is a display with different pieces located all over the city. Many of the works will be in the downtown area, but a shuttle bus will be made available to take visitors to works that are outside the downtown area. The exhibits will be on display during tomorrow and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening works will be on display from 8 until 11 p.m.University students will be playing a prominent role in this weekend’s Art Walk. “Links/Public Art, Bowling Green” is a display with different pieces located all over the city. Many of the works will be in the downtown area, but a shuttle bus will be made available to take visitors to works that are outside the downtown area. The exhibits will be on display during tomorrow and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Evening works will be on display from 8 until 11 p.m.
The exhibit came from the “Technology, Space and Public Art” class. “It grew out of the class,” said Michelle Illuminato. Illuminato and fellow professor Heather Elliott are instructors for the course.
“This has been their (the students’) main project,” Illuminato said.
Elliott explained part of the meaning behind the exhibit. “Good art doesn’t have to be in a gallery,” she said.
Along with campus locations, works in the exhibit are located in places like, Wood County Landfill, Wood County Historical Center and Museum, and the Bowling Green Nature Preserve.
For their projects, the students had to go and look at three different locations to see which space best fit their ideas. Elliott calls this “mapping the space.”
“They’ve come up with completely different projects,” she said.
Elliott and Illuminato also noted that this project brought together both computer art students and those who study more traditional 3D art, two groups which don’t often get to work together Both instructors also said that they are excited about the exhibit and the work that their students have done.
Twenty-two students have put together works for the show. Several of the works will be on campus. Gina Cipolla and Amy Mead are behind “Hydrophobia: An Alteration of Your Subconscious.” The work features four underwater lightboxes and mirrors in the pond in front of the Student Recreation Center.
C.M. Holtwick’s “We Are Watching You,” utilizes hidden cameras and monitors along with the placement of television in different places in the city.
Students in “Links” include Jerod Christy (“Where Are You Going”), Kristi Eckstein and Susan Palmer (“Are You Caged”), Christie Evans (“Remembrance”), Paul Gaboury and Jeremy Link (“Space Invaders: Video Games in America”), Deneva Goins (“Spirit Dance – Expression About Expression”), Mandy Goldsmith (“Forbidden Views”), Ginny Hickey (“Essential Rhythms: A Circle For Unity”), Brandy Huther (“Flower Power”), Jessica Maloney (“Women’s Space”), Mario Marzan and Kevin O’Neil (“Parallels: A Look Back on Bowling Green”), Marcy Patin (“An Enticement”), Chris Schwartz (“Breakdown of Restriction on the Streets of Bowling Green”), Karl Steavenson (“Remnants in Iron”), Kyle Stivason (“Frailty of the Destructive”), Ken Thompson (“Crop Circles”) and Emily Wharton (“Girl’s Night Out”).
