About the Project
Class Descriptions
This mural was created by art students in Mixed Media Painting and Large Format Printing & Mixed Media earlier this year under the supervision of professors Maja Godlewska and Erik Waterkotte.
ARTP 3161
Mixed Media Painting Intermediate studio course explores a variety of mixed-media approaches, including drawing, painting, collage, and assemblage upon a range of substrates, with a possibility of developing large-scale, site specific collaborations in public spaces.
ARTR 3162
The Large Format Printing and Mixed Media studio course focuses on large format printing, collaboration, and mixed-media. Learn how to create and produce large format prints via hand-pulled, digital, and commercial printing methods. Students collaborate on large-scale public artworks for murals and exhibits integrating printed matter with drawing and painting, investigating traditional and non-traditional substrates.
Influences
Inspirations as shared by students
- Experiences during nature walks:
- Forms created by tree branches
- Walking through the botanical gardens
- Sensory observation
- Wanting to bring the outside into the library
- The tranquil energy of nighttime
- Early Asian poetry
- Ted Chiang's short story, “The Great Silence” based on the Fermi Paradox about mass extinction
- Eco feminism
- Human reactions to abstract items that feel foreign
- Observational drawing, photography, color mixing, collage
- Using art to provide respite for students in order expand attention span limitations
- Documentaries about the brain
Faculty Project Description
Students walked in nature, observed, read poetry related to meditation in nature, photographed, and sketched. They then worked in teams, gathered visual material in the UNC Charlotte gardens and greenhouses (photographed with hand-made impromptu analogue color filters held in front of the cameras), and manipulated it digitally.
They experimented with paint and markers and created multiple sketches, synesthesia-based drawings, and paintings. Digital and analogue visual material was layered digitally, enlarged, and printed commercially by Heritage Printing, Signs and Displays Co. on 4x8" sintra boards.
Teams of students then painted on boards with Golden Theme mural paints, hand-cut boards to create organic pathways and organic shapes within the surfaces. Final design decisions were made onsite, before and during installation.