The wood block for printing that Yun Chi ’13 created using the Engineering Studio’s laser cutter locked up for printing in the bed of the Vandercook SP-15.
Yun Chi ’13 printed her bills on the pages of a disbound book.
Bills printed by Allison Li ‘13 drying on a table in the Book Arts Lab.
Here is the artist statement that accompanies the exhibition:
As a studio art course focused on collaboration, we as the class of ARTS 317 explored various modes of collaborative working practices using both traditional and new media techniques. Eye of the Storm is the cumulative effort of a semester’s worth of teamwork between our seven class members. The core idea originally stemmed from the a desire to (re)create a natural environment through artificial means. As individuals, we all had differing opinions on this approach; as a class, we worked to integrate our separate ideas into one collective project. The decision to work with money was drawn directly from our current economic situations—with various Occupy movements voicing financial disquietude cross-country and around the globe, money was seen as a theme that pertains to everyone’s lives. Integrated with the umbrellas, the financial turmoil turned into a storm. Individually, we each designed our own form of currency and hand-printed each bill on a Vandercook press with various papers and color inks. This allowed each person to express her own individual artistic license while cohesively unifying the piece under on central motif. This leaves us wishing: if only money was really raining from the heavens.
The bills were hung from umbrellas suspended from the ceiling of the Jewett Gallery.
A bill printed by Jeung-Mi Takeda ’12.
The students are selling single umbrellas with bills attached for $10 each. To reserve an umbrella, email Katherine Obermeyer ’14 at kobermey(at)wellesley.edu.