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Studio Visit: Quinn Massengill ’19

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March 12th, 2019

Senior Studio Art Majors Exhibitions 2019
Meet one of our senior Studio Art majors, Quinn Massengill! Quinn is a Studio Art/English double major. While he started his English major very early on in his Davidson College career, Quinn’s passion for art evolved later, during his sophomore year. At the time, Quinn was writing stories, but also practicing figure drawing. His drawings allowed him to connect the worlds of literature and visual art, and to fall in love with the art-making process. From then on, Quinn’s art-making practice became his full-time focus. In the beginning, Quinn delved into work with two-dimensional media, creating paintings and drawings, and...
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Support the Galleries & Alumnus McNair Evans ’01

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March 6th, 2019
In celebration of the 25th Anniversary of the Belk Visual Art Center, and in conjunction with our exhibition, Homecoming: Art by Alumni, we are delighted to offer a work of art for sale by award-winning photographer McNair Evans '01. This beautiful, limited edition work (5 with 1 Artist Proof) encapsulates Evans' In Search of Great Men, a multi-year project supported by a Guggenheim Fellowship. Evans grew up in a small farming town in North Carolina and discovered photography while studying anthropology at Davidson College. His Guggenheim supported project, In Search of Great Men, explores themes of shared experiences and identity through photographs...
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Seen on Campus: Rodin’s Jean d’Aire

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February 14th, 2019

Seen on Campus: Rodin's Jean d'Aire
As I progress through my final days as a student at Davidson, I am acutely aware of the most remarkable parts of being a student here. Among the things I’ll miss the most, my daily walk past Auguste Rodin’s sculpture of Jean d’Aire ranks high. Rodin’s sculpture entered the Davidson collection in 1993 on a generous gift of the Pepper Family. However, the story of our Jean d’Aire goes back to the 14th century. As the story goes, during the Hundred Years’ War, King Edward III of England besieged the French city of Calais. Months later and after near starvation,...
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Seen on Campus: Spirit Waves Fountain

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February 6th, 2019

If you’ve ever given or asked someone for directions to the Sloan Music Center, you’ve probably heard of the Spirit Waves Fountain sculpture, more commonly known by students as “the French fry sculpture.” Here we would like to note that, as artist Aristides Demetrios reminds, "you only nickname a person you're acquainted with." That is, here at Davidson, we have become acquainted with Spirit Waves, and have made it our own by nature of its new, affectionate nickname--we acknowledge the sculpture's belonging to our campus and have integrated it into our culture. Spirit Waves Fountain was a gift to Davidson College in 2003 from Dr....
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Seen in Storage: Favorites from the Collection

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January 22nd, 2019
Seen in Storage is a periodic blog post where students, staff, and professors identify some of their favorite works from our permanent art collection. Sometimes clever, sometimes funny, sometimes introspective, and always illuminating, these short posts shine a light on the variety of works that inhabit our beloved basement storage area, when not on view in the galleries or in academic buildings. The permanent art collection provides critical learning experiences to the Davidson community and we encourage you to make an appointment to see these works in person. This installment of Seen in Storage is brought to you by Helen Sturm '20....
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