Coming to the Robert L. Ringel Gallery this Wednesday, October 26 (tomorrow): a unique collaboration between Purdue Galleries and Purdue Theatre results in "Living Portraits." MFA acting students will "embody" the subjects of photographic portraits from the Galleries permanent collection.
The event will take place from 12 - 1 pm in the Ringel Gallery, Purdue Memorial Union, with the actors on display next to their chosen portrait image. Visitors are encouraged to stop in to the gallery at their leisure during the lunch hour.
Professor Richard Stockton Rand says, “Actors are transformers, embodying human character through their bodies. This transformation process requires empathy, intuition, analysis, physical virtuosity and courage. In advance of the Living Portraits event, actors in the MFA acting program were given a photograph of a human being. Nothing more. They’ve worked to penetrate and comprehend their characters’ inner lives and they will breathe life into these historical figures in the art gallery.”
Hope you can come out to support the actors and this unique endeavor!
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