Select works by Grand Valley State University students from the Department of Art and Design and the School of Communication will be on exhibit through August 11 at the Art Gallery on the Allendale Campus.
More than 100 pieces illustrate the strength and variety of student work produced during the past year in painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and other media.
Also included in the exhibit is a DVD showing the work of eight senior students of Film and Video Production. Their pieces, selected from a recent Senior Showcase, include animation, experimental, narrative fiction and documentary. The DVD will loop continuously with the option of viewers choosing individual works from a menu. For more information call the Art Gallery at (616) 331-2563.
Film and Video:
"A Story: Chapter 1," by Jonathan K. Schultz, is a two-minute, black and white, frame-by-frame animation. The story involves the rehabilitation process of a man who was hit by a truck, then repeats his mistake.
Melissa Goduto's "Down on the Farm" is a musical parody of children's cartoons. Animated in Flash, it explores the treatment of animals in food production as a young girl completes her daily chores at the factory farm.
Scott Rogers used 3D animation in "Dance Dance Robo-lution" to tell the story of a droid, in the not too distant future, who dances his cares away in front of Zebulon's repair shop.
"A Moment's Memory" is a short artistic piece created by Jeremy Wesley and Joe Warner about memory as it relates to time.
In Kerri Vanderhof's eight-minute "The Food Critic," a disillusioned young man realizes he has choices in life after an old cook challenges him to help prepare a very important meal.
A boy awakens in the world before birth, and travels through the magical world to reality in an eight-minute piece by Emily Kerkstra and Kinder Welt
The seven-minute "A Small Adventure in Scrapping" takes filmmakers Audrey Zofchak and Kyle Vernier on a trip to Detroit to visit two individuals whose lives revolve around the concept of reusing waste materials.
"Belonged to Somebody Else" by Justin Wilson runs 9:15. The documentary, about an individual who dumpster dives even though he doesn't need to, examines waste in society.
