As an attempt to maintain the history of the Art & Design Department, the Comp Magazine will be posting archived information from past projects produced by the students, faculty and Comp Community. The following is an introduction and the press release from the 2006 Departure project.
Image – Ivka Markovic, Departure t-shirt, 2006
The Departure Show 2006
Each year a select group of artists from the Studio Art program in the Art and Design Department at the University of St. Francis are provided with an entire house to transform into an artwork.
Employing a rich variety of art-making approaches from traditional approaches like painting and drawing to contemporary practices like video and performance art, these students collaborate to turn these unoccupied former family homes into sculpture.
Graphic design students in the program are tasked to produce a marketing campaign for the show and, upon completion the house is opened for public viewing.
Now in its third year, the Departure Show has generated a great deal of interest from within the university and beyond. Several former Departure participants have gone on to study for their Masters degrees in the most prestigious programs around the country.
Departure 2006
Opening: March 24 at 7pm – 9pm
Show dates: March 24 to May 7
Gallery hours by appointment
418 Wilcox St. Joliet, IL, 60435
A house can be seen as a metaphor for the human body and a vessel for the storage of memories. The five artists in Departure 2006 take these as their organizing metaphors for their collaborative efforts to transform the space. The installations, videos and performances investigate such issues as childhood memories, domestic and sexual abuse, innocence lost and mortality.
Participants:
Amanda Hamilton is a sophomore whose work deals with the violent loss of childhood innocence.
Katherine Jannusch is a senior from Minnesota whose work deals with repressed memories of trauma
Linda Lawinger is a senior whose work deals with the anxieties surrounding the journey from childhood to adulthood
Ivka Markovic is a sophomore from Croatia whose work deals with reflections on one family’s experiences of war.
Joe Pavlik is a junior whose work deals with the fragility of the human body, specifically in relation to disease and aging.
