Hello! I would like to congratulate Elle Rochford on winning the "Paul A. Rochford Award for Excellence." Elle received this honor on Wednesday for her body of drawings at Hiram's Annual Juried Student Art Show. Elle uses her mastery of the stippling technique, demonstrating several compositions of work made of small dots, which vary in shades of value and size. Her choice of medium for the drawings is ink, and in some pieces she even adds color pencil. The main subject of most of Elle's illustrations is anatomy. She has a very exceptional way of demonstrating the internal organs and the outside of the body. There is one distinctive piece from the rest of her work named Cubist Crucifixer that made it in to the show. It is also currently receiving commendation from the Cleveland Museum of Art in their spring exhibition "Connecting with Caporali." The Cubist Crucifixer portrays religious imagery...
Art Object of the Week
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Hello! I would like to congratulate Elle Rochford on winning the "Paul A. Rochford Award for Excellence." Elle received this honor on Wednesday for her body of drawings at Hiram's Annual Juried Student Art Show. Elle uses her mastery of the stippling technique, demonstrating several compositions of work made of small dots, which vary in shades of value and size. Her choice of medium for the drawings is ink, and in some pieces she even adds color pencil. The main subject of most of Elle's illustrations is anatomy. She has a very exceptional way of demonstrating the internal organs and the outside of the body. There is one distinctive piece from the rest of her work named Cubist Crucifixer that made it in to the show. It is also currently receiving commendation from the Cleveland Museum of Art in their spring exhibition "Connecting with Caporali." The Cubist Crucifixer portrays religious imagery...
In recent weeks, the contemporary media class has been exploring bookmaking. This goes hand in hand with the gallery show going on until the 25th of February, Monumental Ideas in Miniature Books II. There are books featured by artists around the world right here in Hiram, Ohio.In class, students were asked to create a western codex of their choice. By the time the due date had arrived, there were so many beautiful books expressing personal interests, ideas, and opinions. One of the artist books that stood out to me was senior, Loretta Ford’s book, Vascular Systems. Below are details of Loretta’s process, challenges, and ideas going that occurred while making her western codex.
Q: First, tell us a little info about yourself…
I am a senior Biology major and an Art minor. I would have been a double major, but I didn't have time to fit in the credits for the...
