{"id":137635,"date":"2018-05-10T10:00:06","date_gmt":"2018-05-10T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?post_type=school-college-post&p=137635"},"modified":"2018-08-15T11:07:51","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T15:07:51","slug":"conversations-professor-cora-lynn-deibler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/05\/conversations-professor-cora-lynn-deibler\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Conversations’ with Professor Cora Lynn Deibler"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cora Lynn <\/span>Deibler<\/span>, Department Head of Art & Art History and Illustration Professor, discusses her latest installment of work at The Benton \u201cConversations\u201d<\/span>, <\/span><\/i>her various expressions of art, and her experience as a Professor.<\/span><\/p>\n

What inspired the \u201cConversations\u201d piece?<\/b><\/p>\n

In certain settings, often involving a lot of language and conversation, I found myself pulling out phrases that exist as non sequiturs and tossing them together. In that way, these phrases come together and make a story that\u2019s not really a story. You\u2019re left with the interrelatedness of these phrases taken out of context. You may have this desire to piece it together, but they’re really just a collection of phrases that happened throughout critiques in our graduate program. You can\u2019t have it make sense. That\u2019s something I really enjoy and I\u2019ve been working with for a while. In some ways I try to represent visually the ways the language flows while you\u2019re in those types of situations.<\/span><\/p>\n

What is your creative process when creating a piece such as this?<\/b><\/p>\n

When I sit and observe something like this while making a couple of sketchbook pages out of it, I don\u2019t go in with a plan. I just kind of start to lay out where I think the text will go and then build around it. I note things down in my sketchbook in pencil first and then I go back in with black ink or white pen. There\u2019s not much done with them digitally. This is mostly how they exist in the sketchbook. I scan the and add a little bit of value in just a few places.<\/span><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve had a wide range of editorial work. What is the goal of sharing more controversial art?<\/b><\/p>\n

I have done work that\u2019s more editorial and opinion-oriented. Anybody who works with illustration and design is trying to facilitate a conversation. Editorial work implies you have an opinion and you\u2019re trying to communicate that; you\u2019d like to communicate a set of specific ideas and it helps to generate a conversation around that work. It\u2019s definitely meant to communicate to people. Some of my other art is a little more obtuse and less specific. With editorial work, you\u2019re more likely shaping an idea and trying to communicate your thoughts a little more directly. Folks in the audience get to receive that and do with it what they will. They can have their own reaction, thoughts, and conversations about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

As a professor, how do you feel grading students art?<\/b><\/p>\n

I have a lot of practice with it. When you\u2019re looking at work in the academic setting, there is a rubric even if you haven\u2019t stated one. There are levels of mastery of the work, levels of exploration of ideas, technical aspects – there are these elements that you can evaluate. When you\u2019re teaching, it\u2019s those things that you\u2019re thinking about when working with students. There\u2019s also the element of participation – do you come to class, participate, contribute to the community in the classroom, and remain fully present? There are these other ways to evaluate the work that aren\u2019t based on taste or differences in style. Taste and style are much more subjective things.<\/span><\/p>\n

When you were a student, were you always doodling in your notebooks?<\/b><\/p>\n

Yes. I think it was distracting for perhaps my teachers. I drew a lot as a kid. In the margins of textbooks and tests. My father is a musician and he would sometimes turn his sheet music to find one of my drawings. It was always something that was fun for me to do. I think people who really like to draw <\/span>have<\/span><\/i> to do it. You start to feel cranky when you can\u2019t get to it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Do you teach while creating art simultaneously?<\/b><\/p>\n

When I\u2019m teaching, I\u2019m an Illustration professor. It\u2019s what I do professionally but it\u2019s also what I bring into the classroom. That\u2019s why it\u2019s important for us, as professors, to be currently making work. That\u2019s what you bring back into your teaching. As you grow and change over the years, your work will shift as well. That is how you inform what you are doing in your classroom. If you\u2019re not currently making work and engaging professionally, then what will you add to your teaching? Even though it\u2019s a busy life, making work while teaching, they\u2019re intertwined and it\u2019s critical to remain active.<\/span><\/p>\n

See more of Cora Lynn Deibler’s work at\u00a0www.cldeibler.com<\/a><\/p>\n

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