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By Monique Bos The 2004 season for the Savannah Sand Gnats marked the centennial anniversary of minor-league baseball in Savannah. To commemorate this milestone, Savannah College of Art and Design student Joseph C. Gamble contacted the team about chronicling their season through photographs. The resulting work, “Farm Team: A Season in the Minors,” is on display at the Sand Gnats’ home field, Grayson Stadium, 1401 E. Victory Drive, through the 2005 season. An opening reception will be held April 29, 5-8 p.m. The exhibition also is serving as Gamble’s thesis project for his Master of Fine Arts degree in photography. To capture the spirit of the team, he spent the summer of 2004 traveling on the bus with players and observing their daily routines. “I was able to portray a side of minor-league ball that spectators rarely witness: prayers in the dugout on Sunday, clubhouse card games during a rain delay, dominos games on the team bus and the training room routine before each game,” he said in his artist’s statement. “The resulting visual chronicle honors the hopeful determination of the minor-league team and documents their attendant hardships in pursuit of the highest level of sport.” According to Gamble, minor-league baseball serves “as a proving ground for young men hoping to advance to professional baseball’s top tier. This quest to move up from short-season ball and independent leagues through single A to triple A and on up to the major league is one of drama, sacrifice and struggle.” Since 1996, 25 members of the Sand Gnats have received major-league contracts. The Sand Gnats assumed their current name in late 1995, when they switched major-league affiliation from the St. Louis Cardinals to the Los Angeles Dodgers. Formerly known as the Savannah Cardinals, the team adopted a name with more local flair. The Sand Gnats now are affiliated with the major-league Washington Nationals, formerly the Montreal Expos, and the team recently was purchased by Illinois-based lawyer John Simmons. Gamble earned an undergraduate degree in English literature and then worked as sports editor for the Nantucket Beacon, a weekly paper in Massachusetts for which he wrote stories and took photographs. He later worked as a writer, photographer and editor for Rodale’s Scuba Diving magazine. In addition, he developed experience with nature and landscape photography during a six-month hike on the 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail. In 2003, Gamble started classes at SCAD to work toward his M.F.A. in photography. He is a member of the American Society of Media Photographers and the News Press Photographers Association. Gamble’s photographs are on display throughout Grayson Stadium, and prints are available for purchase in the souvenir shop. For more information, visit www.aseasonintheminors.com.
By Monique Bos Two thesis exhibitions by Savannah College of Art and Design students opened this week. Jason Kofke, a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts painting program and comics editor for District, displays his work in “Living Space,” on display at May Poetter Gallery, 342 Bull St., through May 10. The exhibition explores communication, interaction and memories of his muses. In “A Closer Look,” Master of Fine Arts photography candidate Aimee J. Saccio chronicles images created in the sand on Tybee Beach. Her work, showing at Hamilton Hall Gallery, 522 Indian St., through May 26, consists of Giclee prints that capture images created by variable forces such as the tide, wind and sun. Both exhibitions also are featured on the May 6 gallery hop, 5-7 p.m. ‘Bridge’ spans East and West “Bridge,” an annual group exhibition, features work from the Chinese Painting class taught by painting department chair Josh Yu. Work is on display in Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St., through May 13 and connects Eastern techniques with Western motifs. Artists include Sarah Feltner, Christine Hutchins, Lisa Johnston, Courtney Jones, Virginia MacKenzie, Patrick McGrath, Jennifer Parzych, Coleen Rampulla, Vera Schmidt, Morgan Shaffer and Erin Vaiskaukas. Barton resurrects courtyard Julia Barton, the British landscape artist who served as SCAD artist in residence during Fall 2004, launches “Resurrection,” a living installation, April 29. Her work fuses organic elements, such as native plants, with industrial materials to showcase the history of the Habersham Hall courtyard, 235 Habersham St. A reception, open to the public, is scheduled for 4:30-7 p.m. April 29. Visitors also can view the exhibition Thursdays and Fridays, 9 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.; Saturdays, 10 a.m. - 5 p.m.; and Sundays, 1-4 p.m. On May 1 at 3 p.m., Barton leads “A Walk with the Artist,” a guided tour of the installation. Sculptor speaks, offers workshop The sculpture minor presents a lecture and workshop by visiting artist Jenny Krasner. Krasner, a New York-based sculptor, develops mixed-media wall reliefs based on the theatrical events of daily life. Her work incorporates pen-and-ink stories, digital scans, photographs, found objects, oil and acrylic paint, charcoal, pastel and gouache. Krasner was slated to lecture on “Making Art in the Age of eHarmony” April 28, 8:30 p.m., Alexander Hall Auditorium, 668 Indian St. On April 29, she leads a hands-on workshop for students in Boundary Hall, 415 W. Boundary St., Room 112, 1 p.m. Students will begin by writing about an interesting incident they recently experienced and will develop a finished piece that visually describes the event. To reserve a space and receive a list of suggested materials, students should contact professor Susan Krause at skrause@scad.edu. Show honors foundations The 2005 juried Foundation Studies Honors Show is on display through May 14, with a reception and awards presentation scheduled May 13, 1-2:30 p.m. The exhibition venues are foundation studies buildings Anderson Hall, 412 E. Anderson St., and Boundary Hall, 415 W. Boundary St. Work showcased includes drawings, 2-D and 3-D design, color theory work, sculpture, ceramics, sculptural applications in the arts, painting, fibers, metals and jewelry, computer 3-D work, furniture design, industrial design and architecture. All submissions were created in foundation studies courses during the 2004-05 academic year. |
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