Carmen Papalia’s “How to Close Your Eyes” is currently on exhibit at the Cress Gallery in the Fine Arts Center, and is free and open to the public. The exhibit will last until December 8, with a lecture presented by the artists on Tuesday, October 27 at 5:30 p.m. in room 101 of Derthick Hall. Papalia will lead students around campus for a blind walking tour the following day, from 11:00 a.m. – 1:40 p.m.
The Diane Marek Series has brought nationally and internationally acclaimed artists to UTC’s campus since 2006. Guest artists participate in individual and group activities with students and members of UTC’s campus, as well as the local community.
According to the Cress Gallery’s website, “Diane Marek recognized the importance of the visual arts in all lives as art proved to her to arts in all lives as art proved to her to be a ‘glimpse’ to a path beyond oneself and a means to image a new personal frame through the means of another’s vision.”
This fall’s featured artist, Carmen Papalia, promotes “participatory projects” concerned with open access and promoting trust, influenced by Papalia’s own visual impairment. The legally blind artists is breaking boundaries and established ideas of art with his promotion of new ideas of the definition of art, and his projects that defy traditional limits.
Papalia collaborated with humanities and art students, as well as audio interpreters from UTC’s Disability Resource Center to recreate works of art that are currently at the Hunter Art Museum. These recreations brought new ways of understanding the works through means of audio and description.
For more information about the exhibit and lecture, visit UTC’s event calendar here.
Hear why the Marek Series is so important for our campus and community in this video, and peruse the channel for a look into previous guests invited to UTC.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxU7KFm7oG6YoVmM1cmqrKg
