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BREAKING BARRIERS
Angela Fraleigh, assistant professor of art, is intrigued by dichotomies—exploring the
boundaries that define gender, power, and identity. Her paintings encompass multiple points
of view simultaneously, while examining the fine lines that separate figure and abstraction,
male and female, narrative and chance, and, ultimately, reality and illusion. For her 2008
summer SOAR project, Angela worked with students Stephanie Mount and Nicole Shamy,
who assisted Angela’s series After: a series of paintings questioning issues of gender,
power and identity. The paintings were included in the exhibit “and I would shine in
answer/ being/ without becoming” at the P.P.O.W. gallery in New York.
PHOTO BY MICHAEL WILSON
Sophomores Stephanie Mount and Nicole Shamy explore new painting
techniques as part of their summer ’08 SOAR project, under the direction of
Professor Angela Fraleigh. The students also assisted Angela on After: a series of
paintings questioning issues of gender, power and identity. Paintings from top:
slight, the story she told from that time on, after, and even.
Orbis Pictus (The World Illustrated), written by Moravian bishop and educator John Amos Comenius and published in 1658, was the first illustrated book
for children. On this page we celebrate the ways in which members of the Moravian College community illuminate the world we live in.
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