A student-run platform to preserve and share WRA community's art:
The WRA Art Archiving Committee was initiated by Bowen Jiang '23 in 2022 as a continuation of his Compass project. The art archive is an invitation extended to all to explore and study the art, creativity and human experience captured by WRA's student-artists and all community members. Current members of the Art Archiving Committee include Annie Nguyen '23, Anya Mathur '24, Aurora Liu '26, Binita Shaw '26, Bowen Jiang '23, Bob Wang '24, David Hu '24, Jarissa Molina '23, Jenny Su '24, Loretta Wang '25, Michael Coyne '23, and Sammie Kolencik '23.
Art is an expression of our ideas, feelings, intuitions, and aspirations, but it is also about communicating how we perceive the world, which for many, is an extension of individuality. It is the sharing of sensitive notions that cannot be accurately depicted by words alone. Works of art in the WRA Art Archive may elicit a sense of amazement or cynicism, joy or despair, adulation or contempt; they may be direct or complicated, subtle or blatant, comprehensible or cryptic; and the themes and methods to the production of art are beyond our imagination - from aluminum foil to stones.
The goals of Art Archive are to:
- Document Reserve's artworks around the world;
- Provide unrestricted access to information about Reserve's artworks in one central repository;
- Create resources to share with a variety of audiences about the breadth and depth of what Reserve's art is today;
- Support best practices in cataloging Reserve's art;
- Highlight the variety of work types, functions, materials, and subject matter;
- Encourage sustained engagement with Reserve's art to support Reserve's mission.
Have your Reserve artwork to share? Feel free to email members of the Web Development Team:
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"Art is a vehicle for spiritual transformation." -- Mikael Owunna '08
Mikael Owunna is a queer Nigerian American multi-media artist, filmmaker, and engineer from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Exploring the intersections of visual media with engineering, optics, Blackness, and African cosmologies, his work seeks to elucidate an emancipatory vision of possibility that pushes people beyond all boundaries, restrictions, and frontiers. Owunna’s work has been exhibited across multiple countries and collected by many influential instructions in the world.