This year’s faculty art exhibit showcases many fine pieces of artwork and pottery from various members of the UTM faculty.

Carol Eckert’s Conversation series is easy for anyone to appreciate. In Conversations: No Understanding, you see an image of two people in very dark colors who are turned away from each other talking; whereas, in Conversations: Understanding, these same people are turned toward each other, in brighter colors, and are communicating clearly with one another.

In Conversations: Misunderstanding the same two people, who are now shown in both dark and light colors, are once again turned toward each other, but their words are becoming intermingled.

Eckert, assistant professor of Visual and Theatre Arts, also has a painting entitled Gulliver in Lilliput, which shows a large silhouette of a man done in shades of green and blue signifying Gulliver and many smaller silhouettes in black, pink and purple symbolizing the citizens of Lilliput.

Eckert also has the Mapping the Interior series on display. In this series, you see a view of the world in the past, present and future. In the background of each piece, you see how the world was, is and might be in the future.

In a piece by Kristine Buchanan, assistant professor of Visual and Theatre Arts, titled Ton/(Lan)gue, there are various pictures of tongues and people with their tongues sticking out, including a picture of what looks like a tongue-shaped chair that is pierced. In addition to the tongue-shaped chair, there are pictures of babies who have their tongues sticking out and also many drawings and diagrams of different tongues.

Buchanan has many other pieces in the exhibit including Man and Pluto Bound.

In the Woodland Series, Diane Shaw, adjunct instructor of Visual and Theatre Arts, presents four paintings with different forest scenes on them. The colors used in these paintings range from very bright colors like orange and red to a more subdued green for the vegetation of the forest. In one of the pictures, you can see the reflection of a tree and the sun in a pool of water.

Also on display are various jugs, vases and bottles made by David McBeth, professor of Visual and Theatre Arts. There are different glazes used by McBeth. These glazes give the pottery a pretty color.

The Faculty Art Exhibit will be on display in the gallery of the Fine Arts Building until December 12.