ART 108 is a required course through the NECC art program, and this is where students can practice making three dimensional pieces.
“Pawn-tificating” was a pop up exhibition created by the three dimensional foundations students for art pieces to be displayed. The exhibition was located in the Linda Hummel-Shea Artspace in the Bentley library on the Haverhill Campus. Installation began Oct. 18, with a reception Oct. 20, and then the exhibit came down at the end of the day on Oct. 21.
Dianne Pappas is the ART 108 professor who organizes this event.“This project we have been doing for a few years now I was really taken by the movie the Queen’s Gambit with all the great visuals in it,” Pappas announced.
The students were assigned a ‘pawn’ and a ‘non-pawn’, one of them being a maquette, which is a model for a larger piece of sculpture. This exhibition was student run leaving creative
endeavors of setting up podiums and displays all to the art majors themselves. Cassandra Kussad is an art and design major here at Northern Essex Community College and this exhibition was
required for her.
“This project was quite challenging but I learned a lot about how to bend and move cardboard,” stated Kussad.
She also encourages future art and design majors looking to go to NECC that despite it looking scary, your classmates and this program as a whole will be there to support you.
Cassandra Kussad’s fellow peer Ashely Garcia added that this requirement helped her vision her artwork coming to life.
“The most entertaining part of this event was setting up the show, there was a lot of controversy but our professor encouraged us to make everything more and more amazing,”
Garcia stated.
There were refreshments and handouts in the entryway of the exhibition, and as you leave a podium was displayed that allowed the public to write down their thoughts and feelings about
their experience. If you are looking into art and design at NECC, this resource is available on the Northern Essex Community College website on the calendar tab.
