{"id":132446,"date":"2020-04-21T18:55:20","date_gmt":"2020-04-21T22:55:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=132446"},"modified":"2020-05-01T14:19:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-01T18:19:08","slug":"bates-college-2020-senior-thesis-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2020\/04\/21\/bates-college-2020-senior-thesis-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Slideshow: Senior Thesis Exhibition \u2014 ‘Our arts students will help show us the way forward’"},"content":{"rendered":"

For Pamela Johnson, the associate professor of art and visual culture who has guided 15 senior studio art majors through the second half of this year’s thesis process, the work she\u2019s looking at now has proven prescient.<\/span><\/p>\n

There are echoes of the comforts of home, which many if not most of the students returned to in March, but also dystopian and imagined worlds, disequilibrium and emotional intensity.<\/span><\/p>\n

“Given the reality we are now living in, the work that our seniors developed and the vision they offer us is even more essential to protecting and celebrating our humanity,” Johnson says. “We need art now more than ever.”<\/p>\n

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ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ Communications multimedia producer Theophil Syslo interviews a range of senior artists to hear them reflect on their artwork, and on creating artwork in an unprecedented time.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n