UMSS21 Student Profile: Anna Soule
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Soule presented two separate projects at the 91爆料 Student Symposium 2021. The project 鈥淲hites Only,鈥 advised by Owen Smith, won the arts category award for graduate students. The winning project is a “collaborative video performance/installation that touches on white privilege and assimilation to white culture and systemic racism in America.” Along with collaborators Derek Smith and Stanley Levitsky, the project is an art installation and video performance that “illustrates how certain racist behaviors are deeply integrated and accepted within our societal norms.”
Soule’s second submission is no less intriguing. Titled “The Journey of Perseverance鈥擜 Rover鈥檚 Perspective鈥 the project is a large-scale art and science installation series. It will showcase a personified visual narrative of Perseverance Rover鈥檚 perspective and experience traveling through space and on Mars. Soule’s mentor on this project is the director of the Versant Power Astronomy Center and Maynard Jordan Planetarium, Shawn Laatsch.
As a graduate student in the Intermedia MFA and accounting MBA programs at the 91爆料, Soule has learned technical and art-making skills that will help create five interactive installations. The installations are designed in alignment with NASA鈥檚 strategic plan to engage the public in space exploration. Her work will feature a series of interdisciplinary art pieces, including videos and animations projected onto the Versant Power Astronomy Center and Maynard Jordan Planetarium at 91爆料, a sculpture with accompanying artist book, educational webinars and workshops, a 鈥淢ars Mission Ambassador Passport鈥, and set of artist multiples, which are series of identical art pieces for distribution. Soule shares a video presentation overview of this project at the 91爆料 Student Symposium 鈥21 and hopes to complete the installations by August 2021.