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Fundis, Robert, undated, approximately 1974-2004

 File — Box: 2

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Linda Robinson Sokolowski student print collection contains student prints from Linda Robinson Sokolowski’s printmaking classes at Binghamton University. All of the prints are from Sokolowski's art classes, and some of these prints are included in her 2021 book, What’s The Problem? Enigmas for the Visual Arts Studio, and were included to show how her methods of artistic problem-solving can energize art students. While some prints from the book are included in this collection, not every single print from Sokolowski's book is included, and some prints in this collection do not appear in her book.

A description of the book from Sokolowski’s website: “There have been major publications for several decades questioning whether studio art and creative writing can be taught. Problem-based teaching, though proven to work in many other fields, seems to remain questioned by some in the visual fine arts. My experiences as a young undergrad at Rhode Island School of Design, and certainly as a professor of drawing and printmaking, have proven to me (and to those whom I mentored for thirty-five years of college teaching) that unique, open-ended assigned problems in series provide complicated, serious games which bright students of the visual arts crave. They begin to search for animated objects, mysterious enclosures and human interactions which they had never considered as subject matter. They also begin to accept the accumulated discoveries as a vital part of their being, and thus, seldom open a bare closet when searching for intriguing worthwhile subjects and spaces.”

The types of prints in this collection include etching, etching and aquatint, etching with soft ground texture, woodcut, collagraph, monotype, hard ground etching and engraving, double printed etching, drypoint, etching with scraping, etching with viscosity painting, sugar lift ground, spirit ground aquatint, etching with scraping and burnishing, double printed hard ground etching, and reductive woodcut.

The prints themselves appear in a variety of sizes, ranging from 5 ¾” x 5” to 28 ¾” x 29 ¼”.

Dates

  • Creation: undated, approximately 1974-2004

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

This collection has been reviewed for restrictions and is open for research.

Extent

1 items (1 print) : hard ground etching ; 10 by 13 inches

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Binghamton University Libraries Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Binghamton NY 13902 USA