Who and what defines value in the art world? How can the artist’s creative process engage with the viewer?
Students from the “MUCH 200: Arts in the Professional World” course, led by Franziska Regier, took a recent visit to the exhibit “Do Ho Suh: In Process” at Rice’s Moody Center for the Arts. Director Alison Weaver led a tour diving into the processes that Do Ho Suh employs to create his works of art, and the processes that the Moody employs to create an art exhibition.
In this “studio-like” exhibit, students had the opportunity to connect with Suh’s work on a more intimate level and engage with the acts of drafting, testing, and realizing new ideas. From collaborating with engineering students for inspiration, to tracing a house on molded paper to use as a model, to helping develop new materials to bring an artwork to fruition, Suh’s innovative and complex ways of making art serve as an insight into the many different ways a person can create.
Weaver’s expertise on the creation of museum labels, didactic materials, and layouts gave further insight into the creative process behind museum exhibitions themselves. This sort of creative museum work is one way that students can pursue a career in arts in the professional world!
