Saird Gallagher
A native of Wolfeboro, New Hampshire, Saird Gallagher is a senior in the BFA program with an emphasis on sculpture. She will graduate in the spring of 2007 and plans to go on for an MFA. Her research project, funded by a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF), was an adventure into new territory. “I had never had complete freedom to choose materials and subject matter,” she says, “and I had to design the project and manage my time without outside help.” Emergence, the piece that resulted from her SURF project, was shown in a winter, 2006, regional BFA exhibition at Boston University. Saird is inspired to continue working with new materials and ways of expression.
Assistant Professor Benjamin Cariens
In 2002 Assistant Professor Benjamin Cariens came to the UNH Department of Art from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. At UNH he teaches a range of drawing and sculpture courses. He is particularly interested in the relationships between the two fields and in employing alterative processes in both. His work with Saird was his first mentoring experience. It was, he says, “an opportunity to introduce a broader range of materials and techniques” than any single course could offer. “To witness her personal vision manifest itself with such power and articulation has been a deeply rewarding experience.”
Read Saird Gallagher’s commentary, Expression Through Memory and Material >>
