Art for Our Times

A Week of Visual, Digital, Performing, and Contemplative Art

Por UNC Asheville

05 de November de 2020

During the week of November 2-7, 2020, the UNC Asheville community is taking part in the Art for Our Times Project, engaging with visual, digital, performing, and contemplative art forms that offer us a moment of pause, reflection, and meditation. Some of the showcased works directly address the events of our times, others offer experiences that invite the audience to observe, reflect, and respond in their own way.

“This is precisely the time when artists go to work. There is no time for despair, no place for self-pity, no need for silence, no room for fear. We speak, we write, we do language. That is how civilizations heal.”

Meditation and Mandalas

Love Boheler a health and wellness promotion student at UNC Asheville, shared a pre-recorded guided loving kindness meditation video, with instructions to create your own mandala with materials gathered from nature.

Ready to make your own mandala? Check out Love's video here:

Stage Combat

Students in Assistant Professor of Drama Bill Munoz's class showed off their stage combat skills on the quad.

Ascension: Stonewall to Orlando

This multimedia sculpture by Associate Professor of Art Brent Skidmore is now on display in the stairwell of Ramsey Library.

Artist Statement: In 2016, after the shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando , FL, I was processing great grief that related to my friends who have been continually challenged, threatened and even harmed because they are gay. Many of these friends have been huge pillars of my support and love that I call on often. One of these men I would credit with saving my life. As I write this, I am still overcome with sadness. I often move through these grief spaces by making art and during this summer I took the time to celebrate this community of people by making what I hope would be a celebration of ALL of their lives.

I built this piece as a protective prayer for them all.

Craftivism Quilt

Craftivism= Craft + Activism

This quilt was created by the students of the First Year Seminar Craftivism class as an exercise to introduce them to practicing craftivism. Each student was given the opportunity and freedom to create a quilt square however they wish. Their artistic expression could be something abstract, personal, or political.