Nic Eckmayer – Perfect Imperfections in Stoneware
Nic Eckmayer explores a marginally tapped area of beauty through ceramics and sculpture in a process that is informed by eastern arts, natural materials, and a controlled level of chance. The artworks straddle utilitarian and fine arts strategies to produce imperfect, yet visually provocative, tactile objects. This week The ...
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2021 Art & Design Honor’s Exhibit
USF Student Art & Design Exhibition & Competition
Congratulations to all exhibiting students!Exhibition display now, through April 13, 2021Gallery hours: Tuesday-Thursday, 10 a.m. - 3 p.m.USF Art Gallery25 E. Van Buren StreetJoliet, Illinois, 60432Visit: Take the USF bus to Rialto and St. Bonaventure campus. The gallery is on the corner ...
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10 Comics Read at Least Twice in 2020
This has been a year where reality has clearly merged with the unknown. Our upside down world has been many things: bizarre, enlightening, compassionate, disappointing, empowering, and misleading, to name just a few. One thing is certain, 2020 will be remember as a year of spectacle from top down. ...
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5 Games Played Obsessively in 2020
To note that 2020's video game schedule was mildly distracted by the Covid-19 pandemic would be most insulting. There's been studios shuttered, massive lay-offs, crunch time at epic scale, and more games have been delayed than can be remembered. That said, this has been an ideal time to address ...
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Animal Crossing – Staying Safe & Healthy
The world changed drastically when COVID-19 became a global pandemic at the beginning of this year. As more COVID-19 cases spiked throughout the world, governments started enforcing guidelines and rules for people to stay safe and healthy. Most of the general public, except for essential workers and businesses, had ...
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Innovations in Motion Capture Technology
There is no question that animation in both video games and movies is becoming increasingly more realistic. Franchises such as the Marvel Cinematic Universe offer hundreds of hours’ worth of content. From movies and TV shows such as “Avengers: Infinity War” and “The Punisher” to videogames like PlayStation’s “Spider-Man”, ...
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Portal 2: Puzzles and Humor Combined
Within the world of video gaming, few names carry quite the weight that Valve does, especially amongst the PC community. With heavy hitter game series like Half-life, Left 4 Dead, and Dota as well as the veritable colossus of game distribution that is Steam, Valve has developed a ...
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Don Bersano – Building Elegant & Striking Forms
Having worked as a professional photographer for more than 35 years, Don Bersano has built a unique career photographing fitness and glamour subjects through the use of imaginative and intuitive lighting strategies. Bersano's portrait work has been widely circulated in numerous publications in the United States and abroad including ...
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Kindred Spirits: Kathie Shaw & Corey Postiglione @ USF
Kathie Shaw & Corey PostiglioneKindred SpiritsOctober 8 - November 30, 2020University of St. Francis Art Gallery25 E. Van Buren, Joliet, Illinois, 60435
Kindred Spirits: Kathie Shaw & Corey Postiglione, exhibition announcement, October 8 - November 30, 2020.
On exhibit now through November 30, 2020F Art Gallery welcomes KINDRED SPIRITS, work by ...
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Chester Alamo-Costello – A Two-Pronged Approach
In 2014 Chester Alamo-Costello started The COMP Magazine with a group of students (Egzon Shaqiri, Jessica Cuevas, Evan Griffin, and Jazzmyne Robbins) as a platform for covering new art and music in Chicagoland. In addition to functioning as the magazine’s publisher since inception, Chester has had an extensive career ...
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