Students in Andrea Olmstead's Ceramics class worked on pinch pot vessels during this morning's ceramics class in Conlon Fine Arts. . A pinch pot is a simple form of hand-made pottery produced from ancient times to the present, a great starting point for the beginning of the semester. Learn more about our Fine Art Program here.
Topics: Humanities, Fine Art, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise
A gallery reception to open the Faculty Show was held yesterday afternoon at the Hammond Hall Art Gallery. This exhibit features a wide range of original and innovative work that includes sculpture, painting, photography, and video art created by faculty in the Humanities and Communications Media Departments. Artists include Jessica Robey, Jeff Warmouth, Andrea Olmstead, Deborah Santero, Britt Snyder, Don Tarallo, and J Flynn.
Topics: Faculty, Humanities, Communications/Media, Fine Art
Director of Bands & Creative Arts Therapies Program Director, Professor Amy McGlothlin's Jazz Band class worked on a piece the in Conlon Fine Arts building. Learn more about our Music Programs here.
Topics: Humanities, Music Programs, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise
Earlier this week, the Humanities Department and the Dean of Arts and Sciences sponsored the third and final open figure drawing session offered this fall. This was an open figure drawing session with no instruction. Newsprint, vine charcoal, and basic supplies were available and no experience required.
Topics: Humanities, Fine Art, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise
Fitchburg State University’s Fitchbyrds Modern Jazz Band practices for this evening's Winter Concert at the Kent Recital Hall. Learn more about our Music Programs here.
Topics: Humanities, Music Programs, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise
Students in Humanities Professor Sarah Bromberg's Drawing class work on their grid drawing projects. The grid method is a drawing technique that involves overlaying a grid on a reference image and a blank surface, then drawing one section of the image at a time by copying the contents of each corresponding square. Learn more about our Fine Art Program here.
Topics: Humanities, Fine Art, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise
Yesterday afternoon, the Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library hosted an opening reception for local artist Ricardo Barros whose work is featured in the exhibition “Off the Hill: Portraits from within the Fitchburg Community.” Barros is a photographer, writer, curator, and filmmaker. His works are in the permanent collections of eleven museums, including the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, the Museum of Art of São Paulo, and the Fitchburg Art Museum. Ricardo was awarded a Fellowship in Photography by the New Jersey State Council on the Arts in 1984 and 2021, and the Marlene and David Persky Present Tense Prize by ArtsWorcester in 2024. He recently moved to Fitchburg with his wife, artist Heather Barros. The Amelia V. Gallucci-Cirio Library is in Hammond Hall, located at 160 Pearl St. where the exhibit will run through March 31 in the library.
Topics: Humanities, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise, Library
Theater Professor Kelly Morgan enlisted the help of the Drawbridge Puppet Theater in conjunction with the The Humanities and Education Departments to transform the Ellis White lecture Hall for a performance of Pinocchio. Professor Morgan's classes, Professor Joann Nichols' Arts Integration class as well as three classes from our McKay Campus Elementary School attended.
Topics: Humanities, Communications/Media, Education Program, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise
Fresh off their recent performance at this weeks Fall Music Mega Mix, the Fitchbyrds Modern Jazz Band practices in Conlon Fine Arts for their next performance. Learn more about our Music Programs here.
Topics: Humanities, Music Programs, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise
Students in Andrea Olmstead's Ceramics continue working on vessels using the coil method of pottery. Coil pottery is a method of handbuilding pottery where a potter forms a base, walls, and style by combining clay coils (or cylinders). The potter rolls the clay into coils, stacks the coils together, and joins the coils through pressure creating a vessel. Learn more about our Fine Art Program here.
Topics: Humanities, Fine Art, Creative Arts Therapies, Creative Arts Enterprise