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One of them I'm definitely in. Nick and Eric, fellow printmakers in the department, recently found a cache of used intaglio plates. They decided it'd be fun to do a show/trade portfolio of altered plates. Grab a plate, do something else to it, print it, and you're good. I personally am cheap enough to use found plates for no better reason than because copper is bloody expensive (and I like how beat up old plates can be) so I was in.
Here's my end image:
The background is mostly older, the foreground entirely original, etc etc swirlies!
I'm really looking forward to seeing what the other printmakers have come up with. Because really, this is the fun part about being around a bunch of them.
The other show is the annual Student Art Show, which is juried. I submitted the maximum three pieces: Untitled: Hand Series #3", Self Portrait as Daruma with Cats, and the Portable Garden (I submitted it as a two-part piece, with a constructed model and an uncut print).
Should hear back today on whether or not any of those get in. I have to admit I have a slight...what's the word... well, anyway, I've never gotten into student art shows (Curse you, Scholastic, and the gold key award you rode in on) past about elementary school, so I may have a teensy emotional investment just in the idea of being in one, outside of the fact that it gets to go on my CV.
My art isn't flashy, and it's usually small and almost monochromatic. I sometimes feel this puts me at a disadvantage when it is being compared to a colourful painting covering an entire wall, or a sculpture welded together from leftover auto parts. (This is not to say that these works are bad. They're often awesome. They just have much higher visibility than my stuff.)
Also, a shot from another project I'm working on:
These are so not in their final form.