RMCAD Wins at Denver Chalk Art Festival
A team from RMCAD created the People's Choice winner at this year's Denver Chalk Art Festival.
The piece, which you can see above, used a reflective cylinder—the chalk art itself was distorted, but created a perfect composite image of Salvador Dali and his work when viewed in the cylinder. It was the first time that this exact process, a form of anamorphic distortion, had been used in the eight-year history of the Festival.
A timelapse of the piece under construction:
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Foundations faculty member David Mesplé came up with the design and led the team as they started the drawing on Saturday, June 5. While he used Photoshop to create the reference image, the idea was based on a piece he created in 1968—long before that kind of helpful technology was available.
A walk-around by our friend Manea:
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Joining David on the award-winning team were RMCAD students Jacqueline Cortez, Andy Hirsch, Annalisa Kleinschmidt, David Laskowski, Julie Luu, Brandon Mannheimer, Tyler McCall, Kathryn Minney, and Rachel Timble, and staff members Chris Davis and Eliza Matheson. Faculty member Teddy Schmedke-Lee guided the team as they finished up on Sunday, June 6.
Attendees at the event were asked to vote for their favorite piece and RMCAD's won out over the more than 200 semi-professional and professional artists represented there.
Congratulations to all those involved on the well-deserved recognition.