Gallery

Antonia DaSilva

This piece was done for a painting class. I used the lasercutter and materials available at Design Thinking to help me develop my painting in layers. Adhered acrylic and painted wood cutouts give the piece three dimensional elements. These cutouts create physical layers, and I responded to these layers with the imagery and paint, hoping to both develop and confuse space—foreground and background—in the final piece. This project was also an experiment in material and surface. I was exploring the question of how to make plastic, wood, oil and acrylic paint work together in one piece.

Wall-E Team: Tani Somolu, Asmita Gautam, Mia Delpriora & Noor Khan

Wall-E was a project that we completed for our Engineering Mechanics final group project. We were inspired by the character in the movie, as well as our combined interests. Although the project was a challenging one, with a lot of moving parts, it was extremely rewarding to see our robot come to life (quite literally). Wall-E is currently displayed on the first floor of Ford Hall.

Isabelle Hodge

Isabelle started her own business in the Draper Competition, created a Youtube channel with millions of views, and makes countless gifts for friends and family. This series is a collection of “charms,” which can be used as bracelets, window ornaments or Christmas decorations. Isabelle used a computer file to cut outlines with the Glowforge, and then mixed and matched materials to create a stained glass effect.

Sophie Willard Van Sistine

This broadside was created using entirely reused materials. For this project “reused” can be defined as materials that were found, recycled, shared, communal or second-hand. The goal of this project was to engage with the Northampton Community about reducing waste, and to begin discussion about sustainable art practice. I partnered with the Northampton ReUse Committee to collect their stories about reducing waste. Their stories are depicted in cartoon panels and printed on one hundred unique recycled papers. I found the papers in recycling bins across Smith campus, from donors on the Northampton FreeCycle Network. I used the laser engraver in the Design Thinking Studio, to engrave a wood board, which I then coated in ink and used as a “stamp” to transfer my design onto each paper. The broadsides were distributed in Northampton at Pulaski Park on Wednesday, December 12, to the first one hundred people to show up. This project will be extended in the near future to include web-exclusive comics that were inspired by the numerous stories collected, that did not have room to be printed on this one-page broadside.

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