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Video: CMU art students capture images for posterity
Wednesday, November 14, 2007

 

By Mark Roth
and Andy Starnes
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Cast in aluminum and welded together in striking collages, the sculptures that line the basement of University Center at Carnegie Mellon University represent 15 years of work by art professor Ron Bennett's sophomore students.

 
 
 
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But the faces there are more than sculptures. They form a burnished time capsule of who these students were and what was important to them when they cast their countenances upon the world.

The collages also include a personal history of Bennett himself. Every two or three years, he creates a sculpture of his own face and fits it in among those of his students.

The professor plans to retire in three years. As fate would have it, there are just enough empty spots left on the University Center walls to accommodate his remaining collages.

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First published on November 14, 2007 at 12:00 am