Rockville Art Department

Activated Icons
Working in groups, Professor Stone’s 3D Design
Students designed, laser cut, and assembled “activated icons” using acrylic glass.

Invented Creatures: Monsters, Fantasy, and Bizarre Combinations
Professor Miller’s woodcut students combined characteristics of different animals to
create new invented creatures. They worked together in groups to create unifying design
for a collaborative puzzle print of invented creatures. Their designs were laser cut into
puzzle pieces. Students then carved the individual pieces by hand, assembled them
together, and printed the large blocks on muslin fabric for outdoor installation.

During ArtWalk, the Student Art League hosted large scale community weaving throughout the week. Together, students turned recycled
clothing into a shared work of art.

Monumental Identities
Professor Stone’s sculpture students created a monumental-scale sculptures using chicken wire
armature and paper mâché for display during ArtWalk. Each sculpture functions as a personal symbol of
identity and is designed to communicate a strong visual presence in a public environment while also
containing personal meaning connected to the artist’s life experiences.

If you are on campus today, please stop by the ceramics area outdoors to see Body + Clay,
a performance exploring how the body interacts with clay to leave traces of movement and
gesture.
Today! Friday, May 1 1-2:30 p.m. Outdoors, outside the Ceramics Area in the Art
Building
Ceramics II and Studio Practicum-Ceramics, Professor Shin Yeon Jeon
Body + Clay: Performance and Material Traces
This project explores performance-based mark-making using clay and the human body.
Through actions such as pushing, nudging, stepping, and imprinting, the body interacts
directly with soft clay in real time. These gestures create traces that function as a form of
drawing in space.

ArtWalk, A Week of Outdoor Art, April 27 - May 1
Join the Art Department for a celebration of student voices! Students engage in
contemporary art practices beyond the studio, address timely topics, and explore
unconventional materials, all while tackling the challenge of designing for outdoors.
ArtWalk is underway on the Rockville Campus!
Look for outdoor installations along the central “crossroads of campus,” extending from
Campus Center, through the quad and past Theatre Arts, to the Art Building.

Led by Artist-in-Residence Heather McMordie, students in six Rockville and
Germantown art classes and the Student Art League explored the textures
of campus through rubbings and monotype screenprints on fabric. These
textiles were used to create covers for cushions and pillows, providing a
space for rest and reflection within the gallery.

Sensing Life: The Textures, Shapes, Sounds, and Colors of Montgomery College
Collaborative Artist in Residence Heather McMordie
Sarah Silberman Art Gallery, Paul Peck Art Building, Rockville Campus
During October, Artist-in-Residence Heather McMordie invited students to experience
campus through a variety of senses. Heather led Rockville and Germantown art students
as they created a record of the living things around campus through printmaking. Students’
individual expressions were designed as tessellations (infinitely interlocking in all
directions) so that they can be printed in almost limitless combinations. The massive and
variable textile prints are installed in the gallery along with other tactile and sensory
materials, representing the students’ individual and collective experiences of the natural
world.

We are pleased to announce the opening of our Collaborative Artist in Residence, Heather McMordie’s
exhibition, Sensing Life: The Textures, Shapes, Sounds, and Colors of Montgomery College. There will be
an opening reception and artist talk this Wednesday, Oct. 8 at noon in the Sarah Silberman Gallery, Paul
Peck Art Building, Rockville Campus. We hope you can join us!

For ArtWalk 2025, students in Professor Miller’s Woodcut class worked
collaboratively to design “puzzle prints.” Wood was lasercut into puzzle pieces based on
each group’s design. Students then carved the individual pieces by hand, assembled them together,
and printed the large blocks on muslin fabric for outdoor installation.


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