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Fantastic artwork by students from ARTZ 284 Photog

Fantastic artwork by students from ARTZ 284 Photography 1 for the BA online Art degree.
#svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #BAonline #onlineartdegree #photography #B&Wphotography #BAonlinedegree #photooneoneline
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This summer, Sarah Jones has been busy at work in

This summer, Sarah Jones has been busy at work in her studio. She just completed an installation at the Sun Valley Museum of Art in Idaho and is now heading out to Seattle to finish an exhibition in Mount Vernon. This fall semester, Sarah is teaching Drawing 1, Drawing 2, Digital Drawing as well as Senior Studio for the BA online degree. There are still a few seats open in Digital Drawing! ARTZ 391 CRN 73806. Don’t miss it!
#svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #UMartfaculty #umdrawingfaculty #drawingteachers #digitaldrawing #installationart #installationartist #textiles #artistandnature
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The forever entertaining foundation drawing projec

The forever entertaining foundation drawing project–the Exquisite Corpse!! Delightful!
#svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #exquisitecorpse #foundationdrawing
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UM alumna Kourtney Zeigler finished her 4th year t

UM alumna Kourtney Zeigler finished her 4th year teaching middle school art in Western MT. She enjoys the personalities of her 5th-8th grade students and is always excited to see what they can create! While teaching during the COVID 19 pandemic has been difficult, students are happy for some sense of normalcy at school and have celebrated making art together. See celebrity pencil drawings, toilet paper food sculptures, animal mounts and some really really big heads!
#svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #UMartalumni #umalumni #middleschoolteachersarethebest
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Work from the Special Topics Course Visual Communi

Work from the Special Topics Course Visual Communications: Patterns, Relationships, Repeat. This was an experimental course taught by Alumni Tressa Jones. In this course the students explored the contemporary trends in the creation of artworks from data sets. Using visual translation the data gained the capacity to tell a story, evoke emotion and deepen meaning. Artwork by: Jean Carter -Montana land Use, Emma Brandt -Glitched Art and Cari Maus -Covid Takes a Seat -theater tickets to reference COVID deaths in Missoula County. #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #visualcommunication #montanalanduse #COVIDtakesaseaat #patternandrelationship #datasetpatterninart @umontana @umartsandmedia

Work made by some of the post-bac studio resident

Work made by some of the post-bac studio resident in ceramics last year! Nice! Congratulations Tessa on being accepted as an Artist in Residence at The Clay Studio of Missoula! And lucky for UM, Morasha, Annaliese, Mary, Patty and Morgan will be returning for a second year.
Artwork by: Annaliese Cole-Weiss (video), Morasha Winokur, Tessa Hoening, and Mary Krochmalny. #svma #studioart #missoulaartscene #umkeepcreating #ceramics #postbac #ceramicspostbac #niceartwork

Karl Schwiesow glazing a large ceramics sculpture

Karl Schwiesow glazing a large ceramics sculpture –nice technique! @karlschwiesow will be teaching ceramics this fall semester while Trey Hill is on sabbatical. Thanks for joining in Karl, and we miss you @treyhillstudio! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #ceramics #ceramicsculpture
#crazingglazing @umontana @umartsandmedia @karlschwiesow @treyhillstudio

“The Button” by student Cory Paringer from MAR

“The Button” by student Cory Paringer from MART 325: Introduction to Animation class. Delightful! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #animation #3Danimation
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Students getting ready for the final critique in D

Students getting ready for the final critique in Drawing class last spring - the Metamorphosis
Tryptic projects look great! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents
#studentdrawings #metamorphosis #trypticdrawing @umontana
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Sadly, we did not fire the wood kiln this spring –however, fall 2022 –it is on! Wood fire kiln for sure! There are still a few spaces left in ARTZ 331 Ceramics 2: Handbuilding if you want to join in, make some ceramic sculpture and fire the anagama!! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #UMwoodkilnm #umceramics #montanaceramics #woodkilnorbust @umontana @umartsandmedia

Jean Carter piece titled ‘Nucleus’ from the AR

Jean Carter piece titled ‘Nucleus’ from the ARTZ 491 Visual Communication: Pattern, Relationships, Repeat course. Jean said “each stitch in the chain stitches represents 10 genes and the total number of chain stitches represents the number of genes in the human genome. The total number of chain stitches is between 2,600 and 2,700....I lost count.” #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #dataarts #visualcommunication #glitch #glitchart #stitching #textileart #humangenome #2700stitches @umontana @umartsandmedia @tressa_jones

Sculpture One students final casting projects from

Sculpture One students final casting projects from this past semester, Check out the vinyl sculpture! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #studentsculpture #castscultpure #concretefruit #castskulls
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Last semester, the students in Foundation Drawing

Last semester, the students in Foundation Drawing completed a project called ‘Impossible Drawings’. Fantastic! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #drawing #impossibledrawing #studentdsrawing #beginningdrawings @umontana @umartsandmedia

Back to the basics....never too late to get back t

Back to the basics....never too late to get back to color studies in painting 1. This coming fall, Jennifer Combe will be teaching painting, and there are very few seats open in the Monday / Wednesday section, ARTZ 221.02. Sign up now, classes fill fast!
#svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #painting #studentspainting #colorstudies #painter #learningpainting #paintlikewow @umontana @umartsandmedia

“Strange Fruit” by student Tom Attwater from M

“Strange Fruit” by student Tom Attwater from MART 325: Introduction to Animation class. Nice! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #animation #3Danimation
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Performance piece by Nicole Ichtertz from the Draw

Performance piece by Nicole Ichtertz from the Drawing 2 class this past spring semester. Nicole is punching holes in a piece of paper she has made a drawing on, then running it through a music box to create an artwork both visual and audio pleasing. Nice job Nicole! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #performancedrawing #advanceddrawing #studentsdrawing #artmusicbox
@umontana @umartsandmedia @sarah_jones_studio

“Proto Roto Heart” by student Jethro Fisherfro

“Proto Roto Heart” by student Jethro Fisherfrom MART 325: Introduction to Animation class. Nice! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #animation #3Danimation @umontana @umartsandmedia

More examples of student artwork from ARTZ 491 Vis

More examples of student artwork from ARTZ 491 Visual Communication: Pattern, Relationships, Repeat, taught by Alumni Tressa Jones. In this project the students are altering date to create glitched images. Nice work! Artwork by Traci Bosshardt-Patino, Sam Hillard and Morgan Schulte.
#svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #dataarts #visualcommunication #glitch #glitchart
@umontana @umartsandmedia @tressa_jones

Sculpture One students final casting projects from

Sculpture One students final casting projects from this past semester. Media included, and weren’t limited to: concrete, plaster, castable resin, found objects, even vinyl! #svma #mediaart #studioart #missoulaartscene #UMKeepcreating #UMartstudents #studentsculpture #castscultpure #concretefruit #castskulls @umontana @umartsandmedia @karlschwiesow

This past spring Professor Matt Hamon gave a pre-s

This past spring Professor Matt Hamon gave a pre-school class a tour and explanation of 3D printing in the Fab Lab in the Fine Art building. Young students getting to it! #fablab #preschooltour #Fablabtour #studentsbusyatwork#3Dprinting @umontana @umartsandmedia @jkcombe @matthew.hamon

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