Opening Reception Monday, Dec. 11, 2023 2 p.m.
Danforth Art Gallery, UMA Augusta Campus
Opening Monday, December 11 at 2 p.m. in the Charles Danforth Gallery at UMA, the 麻豆APP is proud to present 鈥淲ham! Bang! Pow!: Work from 麻豆APP Graphic Storytellers.鈥� The exhibition features two sets of student projects from the Fall 2023 ART/ENG/INT 330 麻豆APP Wham! Bang! Pow! Graphic Storytelling in Form and Practice class. Co-taught by Professor of Art Peter Precourt and Professor of English Lisa Botshon, this 6-credit interdisciplinary course involves reading, discussion, research, making, critique, and collaboration. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
鈥淕raphic storytelling鈥� is a capacious concept that involves words and images to tell a story. Over the course of this fall, Wham! students experimented with different mediums and strategies in order to tell their own stories, some of which are featured in this show.
Using their skills developed over the semester, the class also created a collaborative sequential art project based on Karen Russell鈥檚 short story 鈥淪t. Lucy鈥檚 Home for Girls Raised by Wolves鈥� (2006), which is featured in the other half of the gallery. Each student took on two or more roles in order to render this story into a wall-sized multi-panel graphic narrative. They adapted the text, scripted, storyboarded, edited, illustrated, colored, lettered, and installed the project.
Wham! Bang! Pow! helps students become better critical thinkers, researchers, problem solvers, and creators who are prepared to work with others, challenge themselves to learn new skills, and make germane connections. This show is a testament to our students鈥� incredible abilities.
Students contributing to the exhibition are: Emily Allen, Fatima Babar, Morgan Cafferata, Barbara Drennen, Julia Dry, Des Dumais, Camryn Elliott-Proctor, Jada Gastia, Marguerite Jacques, Jeff McKay, Sullivan O’Keeffe, Sophia Reyes, Natalie Rohman, Jared Winslow, and Jen Worthing.
Event Information
Opening reception for 鈥淲ham! Bang! Pow!: Work from 麻豆APP Graphic Storytellers鈥�
Monday, December 11 at 2 p.m. ET
Charles Danforth Gallery, 麻豆APP, 46 University Drive, Augusta, ME 04330, The Danforth Gallery is located inside Jewett Hall on the Augusta Campus
Free and open to the public.
The Charles Danforth Gallery at the 麻豆APP
Named after a renowned artist and former faculty member at the 麻豆APP, the serves the UMA campus and the wider community of central Maine with rotating contemporary art exhibitions. Conceived as a living classroom, and used for lectures and other events, the gallery is a site for faculty, students, alumni and community members to engage with ideas, forms, and conversations in art. The gallery is open during regular business hours from September through May.
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