By ERIC ANDRES
Student Reporter
Northwestern Oklahoma State University and the Molten Capital Artist-in-Residence, Marianne Hoffmeister, will be having two shows on Friday.
Hoffmeister will be exhibiting her body of work, titled “On the Marvelous Generic”, from 3-5:30 p.m. in Jesse Dunn Room 325. At 5 p.m Marianne will be giving an artist talk and Q&A, also at 6 p.m. at the Graceful Arts, Marianne will be exhibiting her series of small drawings that were inspired from direct observations around Alva and nearby towns.
The Director of Visual Arts, Kyle Larson, wasted no time describing the mark that Marianne will be leaving on his students, “She did four session drawing laboratories, during each session she gave a lecture on a specific concept of drawing, she gave students who attended these workshops different ideas towards drawing and their sense of what drawing can do and the possibilities of drawings.
”Seeing inspiration everywhere you go and everything you see. This is how Marianne sees the world around her.
“The whole city has inspired me, I’ve never been in town like this before in the United States and I have been to Miami which is a very different world and here in a very small town it`s interesting how everything is displayed. The house, downtown, where the super market is and how the super market is structured even how people move around everyone drives, no one walks.”
Marianne will be explaining her work and her decisions she made while being in Alva, how she doesn’t like having loose ends in her work and also the book “One Hundred Years of Solitude,” by Gabriel Garcia Marquez and more in her artist talk Q&A.
“The Molten Capital Artist Residency is an incredible resource to have because they have a vast number of artist to work with. I do plan on working with them in the future,” Larson said.
Two pieces of Marianne Hoffmeister’s art that she has worked on during her stay as the artist in residence in Alva.