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By Courtney Mengel ’19, staff writer<\/p>\n

Michael D. Fay, former combat artist and adjunct professor of art and visual culture at LVC, and Dr. Tara Tappert, independent scholar and activist, discussed the artistic responses to events from WWI.<\/p>\n

Fay and Tappert presented the final lecture of the Fall 18-19 Colloquium series at LVC titled \u201cBeyond Stereotype: WWI, Warriors and the Creative Arts.\u201d The two-part lecture was in conjunction with the Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery\u2019s current exhibition, \u201cWitness to War.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fay began the lecture and discussed how WWI has transformed art, artists and the present. When talking about war and art, Fay immediately went back to WWI because everything connected to it. Fay showed evidence of this through artists such as Henry Tonks, a British surgeon who gave up medicine for illustration. During WWI, Tonks worked with plastic surgeon, Sir Harold Gillies, to document the progress of injured veterans as they underwent facial reconstructive surgery. These pastel portraits of wounded veterans served as inspiration for the Joe Bonham Project, which Fay founded in 2011. The project serves to document the experiences of the most physically injured soldiers, sailors and Marines through art as they receive medical treatment.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis exhibition is probably the closest most of you will get to war,\u201d Fay said. \u201cThat\u2019s why we use the word \u2018witness.\u2019 We want people to witness the veteran experience.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tappert discussed the growth of occupational therapy. Over the past century, the therapy has shown the ways in which art heals injured veterans. As Fay pointed out in his part of the lecture, art is not only used to document war but also to rehabilitate veterans. By creating art, music and poetry, veterans can work through the trauma they experienced as a result of war.<\/p>\n

\u201cStudies have shown that trauma is stored in the non-verbal part of the brain,\u201d Tappert said.<\/p>\n

To continue, Tappert discussed contemporary grassroot organizations dedicated to creative art therapy for veterans. The Peace Paper Project is unique in that veterans make paper out of their used military uniforms. This transformative process is a catalyst for conversations of war experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWitness to War\u201d will run until Dec. 16. For Gallery hours and information about upcoming events, please email gallery@lvc.edu.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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