{"id":1422,"date":"2020-11-20T13:59:43","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T20:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/art\/?page_id=1422"},"modified":"2020-11-21T10:19:20","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T17:19:20","slug":"spring-2020-bfa-show","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-art-design\/galleries\/online-galleries\/student-gallery\/spring-2020-bfa-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2020 BFA show"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spring 2020 Bachelor of Fine Arts show<\/h1>\n

Reflecting on art and community while in quarantine has made us all realize the importance of celebrating creativity and staying connected. The graduating class of 2020 earning their BFA degrees will be entering a post Covid-19 world quite different from the early days of their Freshman year. No matter what is happening in the world, artists will always find time and space to make new work. Let us now come together and support our graduating BFA students and look at their work as a virtual BFA Show. Let us read their artist statements and take time and reflect on all the hard work our talented students have created. As faculty, we want to say congratulations to our graduating BFA students. Against the odds of the current situation, they have succeeded in creating some profound and exceptional work.<\/p>\n

The Beasley Gallery has been a gathering place and like many public spaces in the world right now, we appreciate it in a new light. As a community we are lucky to have access to celebrate creativity together in such a large space in an academic setting. For the School of Art, the Beasley Gallery is the outward manifestation of our efforts. It is where we come together to see what the present and future of art looks like. The celebration of the Spring BFA Show is more than the sum of its parts and beyond the work on the walls and on pedestals. It is a time family and friends in the community come out to support the students. The Spring BFA Show Reception is by far the biggest and most well attended night in the School of Art and we as faculty will miss seeing all the students who we have worked with over the years. It is a fun night where we get to meet students\u2019 family and friends. It also is a time when we award scholarships to our students in the School of Art. When we hand out the scholarships, we are able reflect on and celebrate with gratitude our support networks of donors.\u00a0 It is a time our students who will be graduating in the upcoming years get to see how the greater Flagstaff community comes out in force to support and celebrate the arts.<\/p>\n

To our students and their families, and to our community, we are here for you as you have been here for us. No one knows what a post-Covid-19 world is going to look like, but we know the human spirit and our creativity will always be the light which leads the way. We are here now to support you and we will be when it is safe to return to our communities. When we all do return, I know we will be humbled by this difficult time and eager to come together and share in the experiential learning of witnessing art in public in an academic setting. Until then, view and celebrate all our students online and stay safe!<\/p>\n

Christopher Kane Taylor, Beasley Gallery Coordinator and Senior Lecturer<\/em><\/p>\n

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Clay Cabral
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Artist Statement:<\/strong>
\nRoger is my alter ego like The Mask is to Stanley Ipkiss (Jim Carrey). He is based on the pain, suffering and deceit that I have lived through and dare not speak. While this character is free to express the burden that life had on me while contrasting a background of bright colors like that of cartoon shows. Roger is acting out five of the most painful experiences I have went through in my life using dark colorful humor. I never could express these feelings before until one day I decided why not let all them be apart of the past by creating them as images to live on for the future.<\/p>\n