Following the projects and work of Professor Deirdre Murphy's Fall 2023 course, Can Art Inspire Climate Change Action: First Year Seminar, this exhibition features a selection of work created by Lehigh University first-year seminar students. Students were charged with creating a selection of works that spoke to their feelings about the environment, mental health, and well-being related to the current climate crisis.
The feature piece in this exhibition, titled, Self Portraits for Change, is a collaborative quilt composed of students' self-portraits. Utilizing the monoprint gelli plate image transfer technique; students made prints of themselves. The entire class work is stitched together in a quilt-like fashion to show how we are all interconnected and supporting one another.
The exhibition also features a selection of mandalas from a class collage project, project descriptions and work samples, field notes and sketches from student sketchbooks, and photographs of class field trips by Christine Kreschollek.
View the exhibition in the LUAG Lab from January 23 - May 24, 2024. Located in the LUAG Main Galleries inside Zoellner Arts Center.
Curated by LUAG Curation Intern, Emily Tsao
First-Year Student and Quilt Fabricator, Isabelle Waksman
Student Artists:
Isabelle Waksman
Maggie Forkner
Sophie Mooallem
Nik Cinicola
Dulce Juarez-Romero
Brook Bizzard
Zachary Liss
Amelia Jones
Kayleigh Coleman
Nour Eissa
Morgan Adamson
Alyssa Vandett
Ziqi Wang
Victor Li
Hannah Vogel
Ray Jing
