Student Literature and Art Highlighted in Annual Publication
Elmira, NY (12/17/2019) — "Mash-ups," a print-on-demand book, features a collection of essays, poems, and artwork created by Elmira College students in the 2019 First Year Seminar 1010 class, Mashups and Other Collisions in Art and Literature.
The First Year Seminar students considered the perennial topics of gender stereotypes, love, and war, by reading and comparing literature such as Thornton Wilder's play, The Skin of Our Teeth, and Mark Twain's writings based on his Diaries of Adam and Eve. Both of these authors relied on Biblical stories from Genesis for inspiration, creating "mashups" of the future colliding with the past.
Additionally, students viewed and wrote about art from the Elmira College collection, exhibitions in the College's George Waters Art Gallery, and personal artwork. Their own artwork includes magazine collages, drawings, paintings, and cartoons. They created visualizations of the Bill of Rights to exhibit in the Gannett-Tripp Library in September as well as in the Term I Student Show in the George Waters Art Gallery.
The complete book can be previewed here.
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