Landscape for the Night

"Landscape for the Night," a kinetic sculpture by LDSOA associate professor Martijn van Wagtendonk, is featured on the front page of the Athens Banner Herald today.

It's a great work, a terrific notice for one of our very talented faculty members, a great show and the second time in several days that art work related the Lamar Dodd School of Art has been above the fold on the front page of the local paper.

Substantive, good news - not "good" but good - on the front page of a small town paper is positive in a number of ways, not the least of which is that it reinforces the high impact the arts have on campus and in the town of Athens. "Landscape...," for example is sophisticated work by a Dutch artist living in Athens, highly celebrated elsewhere, and so raises the tenor of an already-formidable arts scene here that makes our local quite international. 

These kinds of stories also support the case for the arts as an economic development tool at least as well any article dedicated to talking about such a proposition. It's the old saw - show, don't tell. Good job, ABH.

Image: Athens Banner Herald photo by Richard Hamm.