ESU Hosts Art Exhibit: Live Design: Jocelyn Kolb-3D printed jewelry; Kimberly Snyder-Concept Product

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An exhibit that highlights contemporary design, Live Design: Jocelyn Kolb-3D Printed Jewelry; Kimberly Snyder-Concept Product Design, will be featured February 1 to March 4 at the Madelon Powers Gallery of East Stroudsburg University’s Fine & Performing Arts Center, Normal and Marguerite streets, East Stroudsburg.

Hours for the gallery are 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays, and 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesdays and Thursdays.

A reception for the artists will be held on Thursday, February 4 from 4-6 p.m. in the gallery. Both the exhibit and reception are open to the public at no cost.

Jocelyn Kolb earned both a B.F.A. and an M.F.A. from Temple University’s Tyler School of Art. She has exhibited at museums and galleries throughout the United States. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and the Museum of Arts and Design in New York City.

“Before pursuing visual arts I trained as a dancer,” said Jocelyn Kolb, assistant professor of art + design at East Stroudsburg University. “I found I was drawn to body adornment because there seemed to be a seamless transition between the positioning of the body to achieve beauty and the creation of an external element that supplements human form.”

Kimberly Snyder, who is from Stroudsburg Pa., is on the faculty of the Pratt Institute and Parsons: New School of Design where she teaches industrial design and product design.  She earned a B.S. in art education and a B.F.A. in sculpture and woodworking from Indiana University of Pennsylvania and an M.F.A. in sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Eastern United States.

“As a sculptor and product designer, I often blur the lines between the familiar object and the unknown in my work,” Snyder said. “Within these broad areas I am able to explore issues such as containment, anxiety, growth, private spaces, memory and identity.”

Snyder will exhibit a series of cardboard box inserts designed for use through a child’s development stages from six months to 18 years of age. Each box specifically represents an observational study with the desire to exist inside the box.

This exhibit, part of the steA!m project at East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania, receives state arts funding support through a grant from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, a state agency funded by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.

For more information about the exhibits or reception, contact  esuarts@esu.edu or call the Fine and Performing Arts Events Line at 570-422-3483.