by Erin Turner | Jul 17, 2015 | News Slider
Robots slid through the classrooms of James D. Hughes Center this week under the direction of young campers, ages 8-11, who carefully piloted the controllers. The youngsters were a part of Lipscomb’s Junior BisonBot Camp — now in its ninth year. The robot experience began as a small camp and has grown into a program that now includes several weeks of robotics camps for different age groups, sponsored by the Raymond B. Jones College of Engineering and Nissan. Robotics camp co-director Ginger Reasonover — whose son Bryan hatched the idea for the camp — has been watching young engineers build robots since the camp began in 2006. The camp started out as Bryan’s Eagle project for scouting. The year before Bryan had been a part of BEST Robotics, a middle and high school robotics competition. “He said ‘you know, it’d be really cool if kids knew a little bit about electronics and motors and gears before they came to BEST,’ so he put on — with the blessing and help of [Lipscomb’s] Engineering College — the first robot camp,” Reasonover said. The first year the camp was called BERP, standing for “Bryan’s Engineering Robotic Project.” “It was such a success and there was such a need that the university picked it up and then the year after that Nissan came along as a sponsor,” Reasonover said. And Reasonover isn’t the only person to continue with the camp as it has developed. Counselor David Jack started as a camper and now serves as a counselor. “The first year that I was here it was not nearly as elaborate, but we had a...
by Whitney Jarreld | Oct 16, 2013 | Uncategorized
Most people keep original pictures for nostalgic reasons, but Joshua Dildine works with photographs and paints over them on a large scale. At Lipscomb’s John C. Hutcheson Gallery in the James D. Hughes Center, eight pieces of Dildine’s work are part of the visiting artists program. Dildine is an artist based out of Los Angeles. Dildine grew up in the California area, and the original influence of art in his life was his grandmother, a water color painter. “She would babysit me, and she would point into the sky and say ‘what colors do you see in the sky?’, and I would say ‘blue’, and she would say, ‘wrong’ and I would think she’s crazy,” Dildine said. The art background his grandmother inspired propelled Dildine to pursue his passion in art. “Having that constant influence throughout my whole life has been amazing, but now that I’m much older and in the contemporary art realms my influence has changed. I look at art and I’m inspired by everything,” Dildine said. The core of his artwork looks into how society views images. “I wanted to make it more personal, but also in some ways I wanted to investigate the power of image and photographs,” Dildine said. Dildine has three base steps to his work: construction, deconstruction and re-construction. “The construction part is the context that we give images. The meaning behind them. Deconstructive aspect is the act of painting over it and removing that context,” Dildine said. Dildine believes that removing the face of mother on a photograph, the power of it is lost. The third step, reconstruction, “is fusing painting with...
