Art & Design student lectures airing on PCTV

Last semester two of our talented Art & Design students gave presentations on experiences they recently had away from our campus and now you can view those lectures on PCTV. The lectures will air this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 11am and 9pm.

In 2011, Eric was awarded the Don Lake Art Scholarship and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship. That summer Eric traveled to Arrowmont in the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains to attend a week-long workshop in resin casting. Asking himself, “Why not?” He encased a raw slab of bacon in resin. This piece won a Merit Award in the 2012 Governor’s State Community College Juried Art Exhibition. Always the curious learner, Eric traveled to Guinea, West Africa to learn traditional lost-wax bronze casting through Antioch University. For six months Eric apprenticed with master caster, Sekou Berete. 

After graduating from Parkland in May 2013 with an AFA, Ruta Rauber continued her exploration of metal smithing and ceramics. She received the Metals Award in 2012 and is the 2013 recipient of the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts Scholarship. “Beyond the Bezel” gave her the opportunity to explore the use of cold connections (rivets, tubing, prongs, etc.) in combination with found objects. Her supply kit not only included sheets of copper and brass, copper wire and solder but also foreign coins, bottle caps, postage stamps, game pieces, metal scraps and other ephemera. “The use of cold connections allows me the freedom to assemble components that would not normally go together. I am drawn to collage and mixed media and am challenged in combining old with new, traditional with non-traditional, permanent with ephemeral. Objects that would otherwise be cast off or forgotten in a junk drawer are given a new life as pieces of wearable art.”-R. Rauber