We visited UOP to review senior projects for candidates for a BFA. We were hosted by Jennifer Little who also provided a tour of the photo facilities. In addition to digital photography, art projects included ceramics, oil paints, silk screening and sculpture. We were fortunate to have met three of the seniors. Two were collaborating on a advertising campaign for the Brickyard on campus with a series of large silk screens. Yolanda Cunningham, the other student artist we met, discussed her powerful sculptures titled "Drug Addiction." Yolanda is a reformed addict who is using art as a medium to get the word out to the world about drugs emphasizing marijuana as a gateway drug to crack cocaine and other drugs. Her life-size plaster images of drug users and the skeleton inside a giant plastic inflated crack pipe were very strong.
Ms Little showed us several of her pieces. She starts with a large format film camera, scans the negative, then prints digitally. The body of work involved landscape images taken from under bridges and culverts. The prints will be shown at Stanford University beginning July 8, 2010. She also has a second body of work titled, "Sightseers" that will be on display at UOP in August 2010...both a must see.
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