Made
in Fairbanks Slideshow
Visual Applied Arts
Guest
Curators: David Mollett with Todd Sherman
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most people, the term “visual arts” conjures up a
museum full of paintings and sculpture or an avant garde gallery
with conceptual art pieces. We often overlook the countless ways
that artists create, define, and design our human environment,
the media, and our cultural lifestyles. While we enjoy a beautiful
poster, edgy graphics in the newspaper or a clever T-shirt design,
we take for granted the talent and effort behind these everyday
artworks. Fairbanks has many artists who work behind the scenes,
only rarely showing their original artwork in a gallery or museum.
Many of these artists may remain anonymous to the public yet they
exert a large influence on our everyday living environment. On
display are commercial works from a few of many local artists.
These are considered applied artworks, or art that has a distinct
function: to advertise, to promote, to plan or to educate. In
this exhibition are gathered together a lively and representative
sampling of local original art and their commercial products used
in advertising, illustration, architecture, and education.
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Visual
applied arts and other objects from Made in Fairbanks.
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a list of participants from
Made in Fairbanks
Guest
Curators - read their statements:
Steve
Bouta, Developing Invention
James Brashear, Ceramics
Jean Carlo, Native
Arts
Wanda Chin, Multimedia
Peggy Ferguson, Performing
Arts
Jennifer Jolis, Food
Products
Len Kamerling, Filmmaking
John Manthei, Wood
Barry McWayne, Commercial
Photography
David Mollett, Visual
Applied Arts
Connie Page, Wood
Todd Sherman, Visual
Applied Arts
Glen Simpson, Metal
Frank Soos, Writing
Suzanne Summerville, Ph.D., Music
Penny Wakefield, Fiber
Works
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