ABAC Art Program painting its own path
Mykel Brown
Issue date: 3/10/09 Section: Lifestyles
By the hand of Donna Hatcher, Associate Professor of Art and Advisor of the Art Program at ABAC, the creative works of students continue to glisten.
Pressing into her ninth year teaching an intuitive and freeform perspective of art, she expects progressive change and development of the program in entirety.
In the past, the program has gained funding through an admirable respect. Hatcher wants this support to carry the program into a new level of exposure through marketing and possibility for a new home in the retired buildings in front of the campus.
With coming intentions for these buildings to be revamped and put to use, architects working to put this plan in motion talked with Hatcher about what might be possible for the program to incorporate.
Not only is it possible to be granted an entirely new art room, but they could have space for an art gallery as well. This can allow the art program a consistent place for pieces to be displayed and room for more.
With these possibilities, other opportunities come promisingly. Local, national, and international artists can be displayed. Also, fixes to many prevalent issues can be resolved.
"Vandalism is becoming a problem," Hatcher said. She continues to explain an instance when a student's painting was defaced by an etching of an anarchy symbol over it.
Not only vandalism, but cleanliness is a pressing matter. With no proper facilitating for activities such as woodcarving and painting, wood pulp and paint is always visible and liable to make an unnecessary mess throughout the confines of the art room.
Unfortunately, Hatcher can only do so much. As a professor, she states plainly that she "can't change, but can argue."
Yet, as long as she's kept as the instructor for ABAC's Art Department, there will be progress.
Progress brings possibility. If all goes accordingly, contemporary art will be here to show proof of the ever-changing, timeless art our generation is producing. Hatcher wants something that "questions dominant ideas of aesthetics."
As for her effect on students, she is only slowed by health and campus complications.
"I teach my heart out," she said.
Pressing into her ninth year teaching an intuitive and freeform perspective of art, she expects progressive change and development of the program in entirety.
In the past, the program has gained funding through an admirable respect. Hatcher wants this support to carry the program into a new level of exposure through marketing and possibility for a new home in the retired buildings in front of the campus.
With coming intentions for these buildings to be revamped and put to use, architects working to put this plan in motion talked with Hatcher about what might be possible for the program to incorporate.
Not only is it possible to be granted an entirely new art room, but they could have space for an art gallery as well. This can allow the art program a consistent place for pieces to be displayed and room for more.
With these possibilities, other opportunities come promisingly. Local, national, and international artists can be displayed. Also, fixes to many prevalent issues can be resolved.
"Vandalism is becoming a problem," Hatcher said. She continues to explain an instance when a student's painting was defaced by an etching of an anarchy symbol over it.
Not only vandalism, but cleanliness is a pressing matter. With no proper facilitating for activities such as woodcarving and painting, wood pulp and paint is always visible and liable to make an unnecessary mess throughout the confines of the art room.
Unfortunately, Hatcher can only do so much. As a professor, she states plainly that she "can't change, but can argue."
Yet, as long as she's kept as the instructor for ABAC's Art Department, there will be progress.
Progress brings possibility. If all goes accordingly, contemporary art will be here to show proof of the ever-changing, timeless art our generation is producing. Hatcher wants something that "questions dominant ideas of aesthetics."
As for her effect on students, she is only slowed by health and campus complications.
"I teach my heart out," she said.
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