Summer Cool Sessions for Creatives: Art in the Military

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Thursday, July 23, 2020, 12:00 - 1:00 pm

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Art in the Military
Presenter: Alex Bostic, Illustrator and Professor at Mississippi State University
Thursday, July 23rd 12 – 1 p m
Moderator: A.J. Simmons, Assistant Director for the Peer Career Ambassador Program
Description
Military art creates a visual account of soldiers in active duty serving humanitarian missions throughout the world. The subject matter encompasses many aspects of war, and the individual's experience of war, whether allied or enemy, service or civilian, military or political, social or cultural. This presentation will discuss the expression of cultures and significant legacies that combine artistic and documentary functions to depict a pictorial portrayal of military scenes and show "how war shapes lives." It represents an attempt to come to terms with the nature and reality of violence. Military art is typically rendered as representational, captures factual eyewitness detail, and emotional impression based on the artist's interpretation of those events.
Bio
Alex Bostic is an Illustrator and Artist. He was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Pratt Institute and his Master of Arts Degree from Syracuse University. Alex began his career as a studio artist, working in Kansas City, Missouri and Los Angeles California. He returned to New York City and began a full-time career as a freelance illustrator specialized in advertising art. HIs work is in the collection of The National Baseball Hall of Fame, Cooperstown, New York, The Ludwig Museum, West Germany, Wilberforce University, Wilberforce, Ohio, The National Gallery of Zimbabwe, Africa, and National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NASA Headquarters in Washington, DC and the US Military. He is a member of the Society of Illustrators of Los Angeles, as well as memberships at The Illustrators Club of Washington D.C./Maryland, The Portrait Society America and The Oil Painters of America. He is currently an associate professor of art at Mississippi State University.
Presented by the Department of Art & Art History and the University Career Center