Fine Arts

In the Fine Arts program, students explore their individual visual voice and work one-on-one with faculty members who challenge them to expand their vision of their work. Through student seminars at local museums and galleries, they become part of Boston’s visual arts community. Below are selections from students’ 2008-09 work.

1/Rachelle Rickert

2/Ollie 1948, by Christina Watka. Time passing: faded garments, stained tablecloths, doilies, old shoes

4/Il Campo di Siena by Haley Matzell, exploring watercolors in Italy

5/The Boboli Gardens at the Pitti Palace in Florence, by Christine Lindberg

3/Scenes from the Life of Freddy, by Clara Wolverton. A child seeks to do good though no privilege is given him.

6/Time, In Passing, by Christina Watka. “A sense of theatricality in my work creates a very direct conversation between the space, the materials, and the individual interacting with them.”

Parting Thought

I am interested in creating biological and geological imagery, such as aerial views of different climates and microscopic views of organisms. I create opportunities for my materials—coffee, cream, sugar, water, and paper—to interact. I have control over the consistency of the coffee, the temperature of the room, and the way in which I apply the mediums to the paper, but there is always an element of unpredictability. The point at which my control over the materials ends and nature does the rest is what intrigues me.