Miyako Ishiuchi - b. 1947, Yokosuka Story #73, Odaki-Cho 1977, gelatin silver print on paper, 9 15/16 x 12 1/16 in. (25.24 x 30.64 cm), Museum purchase made possible by the Director's Acquisition Committee, 2021
On view: Fall 2024
Curated in Collaboration With:
LSWA 125-001
Scott Beal
LSWA 125-002
Christopher Crowder
LSWA 125-004
Megan Behrend
Writing 160-001
Naomi Silver
Writing 160-006
April Conway
This installation is an exercise in visual storytelling. UMMA and faculty from the Lloyd Scholars for Writing and the Arts (LSWA) and the Sweetland Center for Writing are conducting an experiment with students in classes that are considering creative expression within and across a variety of media, including words and images. LSWA is a student living and learning community focused on creative expression of all kinds. The Sweetland Center exists to support student writing at all levels and in all forms and modes.
We are particularly interested in considering how the artworks displayed here can be used to prompt creative storytelling. Each one provides an experience all its own, but we wondered what would happen if we arranged them in a way that promotes reading them in sequence, as if they were panels in a comic book. To that end, we have created three “pages” on the wall that invoke the kind of narrative connections and timing found in comic books.
Works Included In This Collection
1965 - 1970
Sir Eduardo Paolozzi ; Richard Davis; Editions Alecto
screenprint on paper
SUPPORT
Lead support for this exhibition is provided by the University of Michigan Office of the Provost, Erica Gervais Pappendick and Ted Pappendick, the Eleanor Noyes Crumpacker Endowment Fund, and the Oakriver Foundation.