Who’s Who with Annie Yu: Zhen Lin
Annie Yu: What made you decide to come to New Paltz? Zhen Lin: I’m originally from Staten Island, N.Y. My mom found this school in […]
Month: April 2011
Little Monsters and Free Hugs
For his class Ceramic Objects as Multiples, second-year transfer BFA student Daniel Sangiacomo and his classmates were assigned to create 100 small ceramic objects and install them in a space. Sangiacomo chose to install the art of hugging. After deciding to make 100 “hug monsters,” representational ceramic figures of people with their arms out, Sangiacomo distributed 33 of the personified “monsters” in the lobby of the Sojourner Truth Library and 67 in the Atrium. Inspired by the “small word experiment,” Sangiacomo […]
Collaborative Ceramics
In 1993, two high school friends turned college art majors made the move after graduate school from their hometown of Akron, Ohio to the Big […]