Department of Art History  |  Sweet Briar College



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EXHIBITION CATEGORIES


Decorated Pottery


Illustration


Prints


Drawing


Photography


Sculpture


Painting


About the Exhibition and Website


The Pieces in the Exhibition


CONTRIBUTORS....
and Acknowledgments...


BIBLIOGRAPHY


Listing of Pages at this Website


Feedback...? email your comments here!


© 1997, Chris Witcombe and Sweet Briar College

What is Art .... ?
                     .... What is an Artist ?


An exhibition exploring the perception of ART     
and the identity of the ARTIST     
through HISTORY     
and in CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY     


CONTRIBUTORS....and Acknowledgments


Christopher L.C.E. Witcombe
Professor of Art History
Sweet Briar College


Emily Busse '99
Art History major from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania



Allison Gerber '98
'Allie' - American Studies major from Orangevale, California



Tara Hartnett '99
Studio Art major from Whitefield, New Hampshire
A photograph by Tara is in the exhibition



Bobbie Jo Hedrick '98
Art History major from Gretna, Virginia
See Bobbie Jo's website An Apprentice's Handbook for Illuminated Manuscripts



Hobby Holmes '98
Art History major from Raleigh, North Carolina



Jane Kwak '00
Sophomore from Woodbury, New York



Emily Pegues '00
Sophomore from Warrenton, Virginia



Rebecca Massie Lane
Director of of College Galleries
Director of the Arts Management Program



Dana Lee Bordvick '98
Art History major from Walnut Creek, California
Dana worked as the exhibition's principal assistant as part of a practicum in the Arts Management Program


Charles T. Grubbs
Charles took slide photographs of many of the objects in the exhibition.


STUDIO ART DEPARTMENT FACULTY


Joe Monk, potter
Associate Professor and Chair of Studio Art
Joe contributed a decorated pot to the exhibition



Laura Pharis, printmaker
Associate Professor of Studio Art
Laura contributed a print to the exhibition



David Johnson, painter
Visiting Assistant Professor of Studio Art
David contributed a painting to the exhibition


VCCA ARTISTS


Karen Klein
Visual Artist from Cambridge, Massachusetts


Scott Ponemone
Visual Artist from Baltimore, Maryland


Children from Sweet Briar's Nursery School and the Amherst County Schools, Virginia


My deepest thanks to everyone listed above for their various contributions to the exhibition!


I would also like to thank


Aaron Mahler, Director of Network Services
for his help in getting a computer hooked up in Pannell Gallery, allowing us to use this website as the "catalogue" for the physical exhibition.


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The objects and material in this exhibition were gathered together, researched and largely written about by students in the seminar "Art and Artists" conducted in the Fall semester, 1997, by Christopher L. C. E. Witcombe, Professor of Art History in the Department of Art History at Sweet Briar College in Virginia, 24595 USA. Invaluable assistance was provided by Rebecca Massie Lane, Director of Galleries and the Arts Management Program, who in turn was assisted by Dana Lee Bordvick '98.