A Surprise Around Every Corner

By Sara Williams

As I enter the Dedo Maranville Fine Arts Gallery to view the “Valdosta National 2019: All-Media Juried Competition”, I feel as if I become enclosed in a trove of artworks that are desperately seeking attention.  To varying degrees, the artworks suggest the presence of each artist offering insight into their motivation and intention behind each piece.  Some pieces are confusing and chaotic and require more than a just few minutes of interpretation.  Other artworks are Continue reading A Surprise Around Every Corner

VSU delivers a ‘Mixed Bag’.

By Rasheem Callender

The VSU Gallery hosts a show full of sexual innuendos. ‘Mixed Bag: An assortment of Contemporary Craft’, is an exhibition currently showing at the VSU Dedo-Maranville gallery. Mixed Bag is comprised of 5 different artists that practice craft in an artistic way . Craft has a history of not being considered an art form. These artists band together in order to disprove this common misconception. Emily Culver, Elyse-Krista Misch, Max Adrien, M. Paige Ward and Xia Zhang are among the five artists that are showing in this Exhibition. The artists that I’m choosing to focus on are Max Adrien and M. Paige Ward, two of the five artists showing.

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