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title: ‘Grounded … In Art-Making Practice’
date: 2021-11-29T05:30:00-05:00
author: University of Maryland
canonical_url: "https://today.umd.edu/grounded-in-art-making-practice"
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# ‘Grounded … In Art-Making Practice’

*November 29, 2021* — by [Jessica Weiss ’05](/author/jessica-weiss-05)


> 20 Faculty Members Display Works in UMD Art Gallery’s First In-Person Exhibition Since Pandemic Began

*Faculty art exhibition 1920x1080 — Visitors view works at Faculty Exhibition 2021, the first in-person exhibit at the UMD Art Gallery since the COVI-19 pandemic began. Below: Mollye Bendell's video project “Sketch for Sleepers"; a visitor experiences Cy Keener’s “Terminal Front.”*

As the COVID-19 pandemic worsened in early 2020, Department of Art Lecturer Mollye Bendell felt a growing anxiety that her last sight of loved ones might be on a video call.

Bendell, who uses electronic media to explore themes of vulnerability, visibility and longing, began to attempt to preserve friends and family through images of their faces from video chats. In her video project “Sketch for Sleepers,” Bendell projects those images in 3D onto digital silhouettes of human bodies that float across a screen.


*Projected image*


*Person wearing VR headset*



**Sidebar note:**

Visit the Faculty Exhibition 2021 at the [University of Maryland Art Gallery](https://artgallery.umd.edu/) in the Parren J. Mitchell Art-Sociology Building 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday through this week.





**Topics:** [Arts & Culture](https://today.umd.edu/tags/arts-culture)


**Tags:** [Visual Arts](https://today.umd.edu/topic/visual-arts)


**Units:** [College of Arts and Humanities](https://today.umd.edu/topic/college-arts-and-humanities)