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April 2005: Todd Woodlan

Visual Artist Todd Woodlan, senior

Graduating Emory senior Todd Woodlan will present a multi-media installation representing the culmination of his individual undergraduate research project funded in part by the SIRE (Scholarly Inquiry and Research at Emory) program of Emory College. Woodlan is an English major participating in the honors program and a visual arts minor who has participated in a variety of arts activities at Emory. He has been a student arts leader as president of Student Arts Corps, as a member of the Steering Committee for the Arts and Student Arts Council, as vice president of Stipe honors society, as a member of the new Public Art Committee at Emory, and as Media Council president. From 2002-2004 Woodlan branched out into music through participation in the Department of Music's Emory Wind Ensemble and Emory University Orchestra. In addition to co-organizing an array of campus and off-campus student arts events, he has helped to organize Human Rights Week, has been involved in a variety of filmmaking activities, and has worked on the Lullwater Review, Emory Wheel, the Student Art Corps' 'zine, and other publications enabling him to utilize his literary and design talents. In 2004 he was a co-organizer of a juried Recycled Art Project through which sculpture created by metro-Atlanta artists from recycled material was displayed on campus.

Woodlan's Nostalgic Warfare will be on view April 22-29 in the Visual Arts Building and Gallery. The Free public opening reception will be April 22 from 5:00-8:00 p.m. Nostalgic Warfare has a dual purpose: to create an environment and to conjure up nostalgia. Using figures placed around the room and projections that cover the entire surface of the area, the visitor can’t help but be included in the piece. Using found footage from 1950s-era government films warning about the dangers of atomic war a sense of nostalgia from that time also accompanies the work. But, as with any art piece, the viewers add their own meanings.

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