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Sketches to Sculptures: Rendered Reality, Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks Opens at the Museum
Sketches to Sculptures: Rendered Reality, Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks
exhibition opens today at Saginaw Valley State University
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum has long sought to make the artist’s work and the Museum known globally. Toward that end, a traveling exhibition of Fredericks’ work has been developed.
Over the last year Museum staff has developed Sketches to Sculpture: Rendered Reality, Sixty Years with Marshall M. Fredericks, an exhibition of 31 small sculptures and 36 related drawings and sketches. It will debut at the Museum on February 12 and remain on display through June 12.
In January 2012, the exhibition will begin traveling to various historical and art museums around the country. In addition to the sculptures and drawings, the exhibit will include an exhibition catalogue and an interpretive DVD with excerpts taken from Marshall Fredericks’ archival videos, making this a memorable and educational experience for all who see it.
“We are pleased to have assembled such a strong exhibition that demonstrates the relativity of an artist’s sketch to a completed sculpture. Some of the sketches are pencil on tablet paper, while others are beautiful four-color presentation drawings,” said Marilyn Wheaton, Museum director.
This exhibition is made possible with generous support from Denis and Madeline Burke, The Jack and Joanne Martin Charitable Foundation, Don and Jo Anne Petersen, and Robert Sarow.
For more information about the exhibition, call (989) 964-7125 or visit the Museum’s website at www.marshallfredericks.org.
Summer Art Camp Session 3 part 1
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Summer Art Camp Session 3, Sculpture
The third session of summer camp explored three-dimensional media. The students created sculptures with modeling compound and painted them. Then they created a plaster sand cast face by making impressions in sand and embedding objects in the sand. Plaster was then poured over their sand face design and allowed to dry. The next day they revealed their face sculptures by brushing away the sand. The next day they created African Paper Mache Masks. They designed their own mask based on ideas and concepts learned from a presentation about Africa. First they created small armatures of the basic form. The next day they finished the mask and then painted them the following day. While the masks were drying they began their next project, making tetrahedron kites. Using straws, string, and tissue paper they engineered their kites. On Friday they got to fly their creations. As with Session 1 and 2 the students finished the week by creating their own t-shirt design with three-dimension paints.
Summer Art Camp Session 2, Painting
“Art is messy” was the theme to session two of the MFSM Summer Art Camp! The week was filled with painting and the students got to experiment with watercolor and acrylic paints. After a tour of the museum, the students began the week off with a lesson on the color wheel. We went over primary colors and learned how to mix them to create the secondary colors. The concept of complementary colors was introduced and we practiced mixing complements to create earth tones. The watercolor assignment allowed the students to experiment with a different medium and it also reinforced their new knowledge of color mixing. They got very familiar with different values, which came in handy during the monochromatic self-portrait project. The assignment started with a lesson on tints and shades and proper placement and proportion of features. Before long, we had twelve beautiful self-portraits painted with a wide variety of tints and shades, all created by using one color plus white and black. The week ended with another watercolor painting, but this time the students picked a favorite sculpture from the museum for their inspiration. Much like the first week the t-shirt design was a big hit and everyone enjoyed seeing one of their masterpieces framed in a picture frame once owned by Marshall Fredericks, himself! While art may be a little messy, it is most certainly a lot of fun!
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In the classroom
Group photo
Young Jackson Pollocks
The students showing off their final framed works!
Written by: Patricia Bry
Photos by: Geoffe Haney
Summer Art Camp Session 1, Drawing
The first session of the MFSM Summer Art Camp was a success. The week started off with a tour of the museum where the students got a chance to learn a little about Marshall Fredericks and the fine art metal casting process. Back in the classroom, we shared things about ourselves with a “Body Double” project. The children picked a partner and traced each other’s outline on large craft paper. Then they were instructed to fill it in with drawings of things they liked. We learned a lot about each other and discovered we all had something in common. Throughout the week the students were introduced to a variety of concepts; basic knowledge and proper use of art supplies to more challenging projects like one point perspective drawing. The still life assignment introduced many new skills including how to measure objects, duplicate angles, shading techniques and shadows. Drawing the sculptures in and around the museum appeared to be a favorite for many students and everyone got to have one of their drawings matted and framed, using picture frames that belonged to Marshall Fredericks. The week ended with a fun lesson on Op Art and then we created one of a kind T-shirts. Definitely a high point for the week!
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Written by: Patricia Bry
Photos by: Geoffe Haney
