Press release from Rutgers University: When visual art student Alessandra Puglisi learned Rutgers' in-person instruction was ending in March, she knew she needed to incorporate this moment into her art. Her last two days on campus were spent holed up in her studio, scrambling to collect and create items that would tie her unfinished scuplture - a massive macabre banquet - to the pandemic in a personal way.
She is not alone.
An entire class of Mason Gross School of the Arts BFA seniors were more than a year into their thesis projects when COVID-19 hit the U.S. Most had to pivot after leaving campus and get creative with new resources to complete their graduation requirements. MGSA Art & Design instructor Brian Edgerton said he is awed by all his students' ability to incorporate the unique challenges of this moment into their art.
"The students are teaching me in this teachable moment," Edgerton said. "I think we are all learning what it means to be an artist. We spend our whole lives pointing our worldview through this specific set of materials and now we have decisions to make. How do we express that point of view when we no longer have access to the tools we had been expert in using?"
We find out tonight. With their year-end exhibition at Mason Gross Galleries postponed, the New Brunswick art school is showcasing their work in an online BFA show that opens with a virtual reception and DJ dance party from 6-8 p.m.
BFA students are not the only ones experimenting with their mediums in new ways during the quarentine. Check out these inventive virtual offerings from MGSA students and faculty.
- Filmmakers in Exile - A collaboration by MGSA filmmakers, all given the same "assignment" and shot in their own homes.
- Solo quartet - Student Zoe D'Amico misses playing in ensembles, so she made one at home. "With the help of my phone perched precariously on a dresser, I've managed to use the Acapella app to play music with myself."
- Percussionist doesn't miss a beat for MGSA dancers - In this timelapsed video, Dance Department Music Coordinator (MGSA alum, DMA 2016) Mesia Austin proves she can still provide improvised music, on the spot, for MGSA Modern Dance Technique classes - all the way from her family's Georgia home.
- Music for Pieces of Wood - Percussion students were to perform this at Carnegie Hall and NBPAC; here they are, piecing it together remotely, with glass objects from home.
This press release was produced by Rutgers University. The views expressed here are the author's own.
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