Small world, big mind

By: Shelby Coulter

Logan Lott’s Good Hope, Digital Pinhole Photography, 8”x10”, 2019.

Logan Lott was born and raised in Valdosta Georgia by a family with not much interest in art. She says, “I am the oddball of the family for sure. No one in my family or extended family has ever had much interest in the arts beyond craft projects.” As far as she can remember, Logan has always had a passion for art. She grew up as a big fan of pop artists such as Keith Haring, Andy Warhol, and Roy Lichtenstein. She is also fond of Frida Kahlo, Cindy Sherman, Barbara Kruger, and many other women artists. Logan is heavily influenced by many different art movements such as Dadaism, Surrealism, Pop Art, Postmodernism, and Contemporary art.

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Bearing Witness: Installations by Margi Weir

By Shelby Coulter

Margi Weir’s “Bearing Witness” at Valdosta State University’s Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery

The walls of Valdosta State University’s Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery are currently covered by an overwhelming array of color and decorative pattern that invites discussion on today’s sociopolitical realities. These walls hold “Bearing Witness,” a bold exhibition that includes installations by Margi Weir, an artist and professor at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. “Bearing Witness” features work from three of Weir’s recent series that include topics that are personal and political. Her work involves “blurring—but not hiding—the socio-political and ecological themes in her pieces,” according to Weir’s artist biography. Weir’s exhibit opened February 17th and will close March 6th, 2020, after Weir presents her artist talk at noon.

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