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Mixing art with
food
By Melissa Anderson
Summer On-line Forty-Niner
A gigantic color
wheel covered with matching colors of food will be the product
of the Art 300 class at Cal State Long Beach. The class
is composed of both Liberal Studies students seeking a Multiple
Subject Teaching Credential and Art Education Majors seeking
a Single Subject Teaching Credential. This six week summer
course will end with this tasty exhibition.
"I wanted
something really special for them. I want Liberal Study students
to feel like artists," said Merrie Martino, Instructor
Art 300 and Liberal Studies 404. "I wanted to teach them
what it is really like to be an artist."
According to Martino
the class was divided into five groups. Group one will
be the red entree group, two will be the blue dessert, three
takes care of the white beverages, four is the yellow salad
group, and group five is in charge of the lighting, reception
and publicists.
"The students
have been working this entire summer; four hours a day, four
days a week, for six weeks. These students have been working
so hard it makes me feel so good, they love this class,"
Martino said. "White pasta might be blue, sauces orange,
we'll have to see."
The color wheel
will take up the middle of the gallery, and will be taste-tested
by the artists at the end of the event.
"The students
are going to eat it after, they have to have it documented
for the capstone class," Martino said. "We
will see if the color has a psychological affect, if the color
repels them. They have to change the color of the food
in a radical way, it is part of the perceptual, psychological
aspect."
The taste test
will be documented after the color wheel is documented via
video, digital photography, and slides. Dr. Karen Kleinfelder,
Professor of Art History at CSULB, as well as a 20th/21st-century
specialist will participate as the "art critic"
and offer the students feedback.
After the event
there will be a reception for guests, that will contain "normal"
food. The guests do not get to take part in the tasting
of the color wheel.
Everything will
come together at the exhibition on Tuesday, August 21, 2001
at 5:00 PM, at the Design Department Gallery in the HSD Building.
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