{"id":27753,"date":"2013-12-04T04:05:52","date_gmt":"2013-12-04T09:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=27753"},"modified":"2013-12-02T12:12:05","modified_gmt":"2013-12-02T17:12:05","slug":"self-portraits-to-be-featured-in-yours-truly-exhibit-dec-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/12_04_2013\/self-portraits-to-be-featured-in-yours-truly-exhibit-dec-7","title":{"rendered":"Self-portraits to be featured in ‘Yours Truly’ exhibit Dec. 7"},"content":{"rendered":"

UT art students and local artists will offer reflections of themselves in the \u201cYours Truly\u201d exhibition, which will be on display Saturday, Dec. 7, from 6 to 11 p.m. in the Secor Gallery, 425 Jefferson Ave.<\/p>\n

\"Yours<\/a>Works will be in the sixth-floor gallery and open studios on the fifth, sixth and seventh floors. The free, public event is part of the seventh annual \u201c \u2019Tis the Secor.\u201d<\/P><\/p>\n

Advanced art students from the Concepts in Art Studio and Theory class have created an unusual group of self-portraits in response to the question, \u201cWho am I?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe show, \u2018Yours Truly,\u2019 is the culmination of a great deal of hard work,\u201d Barbara Miner, UT associate professor of art, said. \u201cThese pieces are the result of an entire semester spent writing reflectively about works as varied as Robert Frost\u2019s \u2018The Road Not Taken,\u2019 Walt Whitman\u2019s Leaves of Grass,<\/em> Hans Christian Andersen\u2019s \u2018The Emperor\u2019s New Suit\u2019 and Nobel Prize-winning scientist E.O. Wilson\u2019s Letters to a Young Scientist.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cYours Truly\u201d highlights how the students stretched the self-portraits in unexpected ways.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn addition to exploring existentialism and contemporary art criticism, students gamely tackled issues of what role failure plays in the creative process and the unanticipated benefits of failure as a means of growth,\u201d Miner said. \u201cWe also explored the issue of art\u2019s intrinsic value both from a monetary standpoint as well as from the view that all societies create and value art.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said the Concepts in Art Studio and Theory class isn\u2019t like any other studio course: \u201cThis class is about building community through intense dialogue, hashing out where these young artists stand in terms of their own artworks and the greater community, and creating a lasting set of research and reflection skills that are truly cross-disciplinary.\u201d <\/p>\n

For more information on \u201cYours Truly,\u201d contact Miner at barbara.miner@utoledo.edu or 419.530.8315.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

See how UT art students stretched the self-portrait concept in the exhibit \u201cYours Truly,\u201d which will be on display Saturday, Dec. 7, from 6 to 11 p.m. in the Secor Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,5,7,51],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}