Little Boxes: Explorations on a Simple Form
I know that a lot of folks use other doors to enter and exit Sarratt Student Center besides the doors on the main floor, so I wanted to share this photo and article on the current exhibit, “Little Boxes”.
“Little Boxes: Explorations on a Simple Form” is on display at the Sarratt Student Center’s Sarratt Gallery now through August 9.
The exhibition features fine art craftwork by Nancie Roark, Susan Moody and David Heustess, all instructors at Sarratt Art Studios and the summertime Sarratt Youth Art Institute. Using mediums such as glass beads and metalwork in silver, brass and copper, the artists have created 21 boxes ranging in style from the sophisticated to the whimsical to the sacred.
The box, usually seen as an everyday item, can take on numerous roles from a practical container to something more ornate, meaningful and important, such as a reliquary, which can contain a sacred treasure, special object or memory. The exhibition reveals how boxes can be created and celebrated as beautiful objects in their own right and how fine art craftwork delivers ornamental wares significant to our society and community.
Sarratt Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday-Friday. (Summer hours subject to variation.)
— From Assistant Director David F. Heustess, Visual Arts / Office of Arts & Campus Events