This summer, the Kimmel Galleries' Curatorial Labs Project presents work from Professor Donna Cameron's Politics of Portraiture class, in an exhibit entitled I am Other, to Myself and Another: Power Pairs and Portraits. From release:

In this project, the students were given a timeline of significant images, ranging from Paleolithic cave paintings to Impressionist art. They were asked to choose one piece and engage in creative research on the era, materials and genre of the work which they chose, the history and intention of the portrait artist and the personal background of the sitter. In conjunction with to a semester-­‐long study of archetype and art, they were asked to document their perceived resemblance to the chosen portrait with an essay and a multimedia work. They teamed up in pairs, creating a scholarly, inventive and unique response of their own. The result is a willed, interpersonal connection to the original portrait and to the person, society and epoch represented. Archetypes that students researched and cited in their work include the orphan, warrior, altruist, magician, shadow self, martyr, innocent and wanderer. The intensity of community feeling on the part of the students and its translation into a desire for connectedness is superbly conveyed.