CREATIVE PROCESS

From Lynn Tomlinson, Assistant Professor, Department of Electronic Media & Film:

This fall semester the process artwork behind my animated films The Elephant’s Song and The Ballad of Holland Island House, as well as a small-scale projection of Aqua Dome, the collaborative animated installation piece created for TU’s Watson King Planetarium and funded by CoLAB, will be on display as part of this show at the Park School of Baltimore. The opening is Thursday, September 26, 4:30-7. Janna Rice is Park School’s Exhibitions Educator as well as a TU Studio Art MFA alumna.

Artwork Left to Right: Chris Bathgate, Greg Minah, Lynn Tomlinson, Firaxis Games.Images courtesy of the Artists.

CREATIVE PROCESS

September 26–December 6, 2019 | Reception: Thursday, September 26, 4:30–7 pm.

Chris Bathgate, Firaxis Games, Greg Minah, Lynn Tomlinson, and Park School Students

This show examines how we explore, develop, and illuminate ideas. It features the work of several local artists whose work is process oriented, and will also include the work of Park School Students.

Chris Bathgate is a self-trained machinist. He utilizes handmade tools and automated CNC (computer numerical control) milling and drilling machines to create precisely-crafted elements that assemble into complex sculptures.

The Artists of Firaxis Games (a game developer based in Hunt Valley, MD) will be featuring the work of several of their artists. They will share with us how they develop images and sounds in order to bring their games to life on screen.

Greg Minah grew up in Columbia, Maryland and graduated from the University of Maryland at College Park with degrees in English Literature and Studio Art. He creates vibrant action paintings full of fluid, exuberant motion.

Using a tactile clay-on-glass technique, Lynn Tomlinson creates poignant short films that investigate environmental and historical stories told from unusual points-of-view.

The exhibition will also feature the work of Park School Students in Core 9 Science in the Library Gallery.

Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore

Susan E. Picinich, Dean of the College of Fine Arts and Communication, has been working hard on her loom this spring. As a member of the Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore, Dean Picinich will have pieces in the Anniversary show this summer.

My fiber art will be on display in the Weavers Guild of Greater Baltimore 70th Anniversary Show from July 5 to August 31, 2019.  There is an opening reception on July 11 from 6:30-8:00 p.m. with demonstrations of weaving and spinning.  The show is at the Baltimore County Arts Guild, 1101 Maiden Choice Lane in Baltimore 21229 www.bcartsguild.org

As a costume designer, the fiber arts have always been part of my world through sewing, dyeing, surface embellishment, and clothing related crafts.  In graduate school at the University of Michigan I took Weaving and Fabric Design with Sherri Smith.  I continued learning to weave as a new Assistant Professor at Western Illinois University with Art Professor Jo Sanders.  But my fiber work took a backseat as my academic and free-lance design work intensified.  Now I am working as an artist again, anticipating my new faculty role.  In the past year I joined the weaver’s guild, took workshops, and made Shadow Weave towels to enter in the 70th Anniversary Challenge Heirlooms category.  Now that I’m back in the swing of weaving, my next project is a series of sculptural bodices or corsets representing female archetypes.  The pieces will be woven of rags and shaped on the loom using the pulled-warp process.