Series: Art
Opening Reception Date: Friday, August 29, 2008
Time: 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.
Venue: Visual Arts Building

Exhibition dates: August 19 - September 13, 2008

Ticket Prices: Free

Visual Biography: Jo Harvey Sullivan
MFA Exhibition of Jana Miller

Jana Miller records the life of her grandmother through digital photography, to create a visual biography.  Miller's main focus encompasses documenting her grandmother's daily routine, and her possessions.  Unlike mainstream society's documentation of the elderly, Miller acknowledges that those over 65 offer wisdom gained from life experience.   As the artist states," Most senior citizens have a story to tell; all they need is someone to listen."  Jana Miller, recipient of the Master of Fine Arts Degree in Art and Technology, is a native of Texas and currently lives in Allen, Texas.

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The Arena
MFA Exhibition of Manuel Pecina

Artists statement: "Technology is perhaps one of the most significant but least acknowledged challenges facing the human condition. It creates a need or desire for more technology, linking us through everyday use, shaping our everyday lives, drawing upon the human mind for development, influencing and changing how we live and act. The digital age has evolved into the fusion of computers and telecommunication systems such as the Internet to create collaborative artworks designed for a utopian vision of a unified, commercialized cultural sphere.

This imagery, derived from past collective experience and existing in the individual, projects a few typical archetypes most common in our lives, and display human form doing everyday things, nothing and something. They say you never really know a person until you get to know them. Are you the bystander that sits idly watching, never acting, choosing to ignore or walk away?"