Rachel Harris, Final Blog Assignment

On December 7th, Bloomsburg University Alumni, Marcy Geyer gave a very thought provoking talk of her art work having to do with the LGBT community. Being active in LGBT rights, the presentation was very inspirational. Not only did she talk about the discrimination of people's sexualities but she also mentioned the discrimination against races. Her opinion on discrimination was very bold in all of her work.

Her work was very interesting to look at. While watching the slide show we were able to enjoy her progression as an artist and through the years her works have morphed into pieces that can easily get messages through to the audience. My favorite thing that Geyer walked about was her pillows and how she left them around in places, even in the MoMA. The subtly of this work was creative because discrimination is not always in your face. It was definitely a creative way to spread awareness. Overall, I enjoyed Marcy Geyer's talk and looking at the works of art she had produced over the years.

Lee Patton Final Blog: Marcy Geyer

Bloomsburg University printmaking alumni Marcy Geyer recently gave a talk in the student services center about her recent work as well as pieces created while attending the university. The majority of her work focuses on racism and equal treatment of the LGBT community, as well as instances of violence, disapproval, and mistreatment against them in society. Most of the pieces she showed were very strong, especially the ones concerning Matthew Shepard and Emmett Till. I thought her prints on pillows was an interesting idea and a different but probably effective way to spread the message.

I thought her work was definitely made stronger by the passion she put into it. It was easy to tell this was a topic that she found highly important to address and try to fix. While talking about the pieces about Matthew Shepard and Emmett Till, I think it brought tears to her eyes and I saw how much these issues meant to her. Having that strong passion about an issue like this shows in the work and that passion came through in hers, as well as her talk.

Amber Weaver: Final Blog Assignment

The December 7th presentation given by Bloomsburg University Printmaking Alumni, Marcy Geyer, was very powerful. I really appreciated how passionate she was about her work. For me, this gave the work an little extra punch on top of the already powerful topic of gay and lesbian rights. As a supporter, I was intrigued by her take on the topic. I liked how she connected everything to a vote. i found this interesting because if you do think about it, everything does come down to a yes or a no vote. it pretty much rules the kind of so society that we live in. I liked how she not only examined gay/lesbian marriages but also traditional marriages and the "what if they were to be decided by a vote" factor. It makes the viewer stop and think more about the work as opposed to just glancing at it and saying "well that's a pretty picture" and then walk away.

Again, I really appreciated how passionate she was about her work. I liked how her pieces ranged from installations to singular pieces. I liked her installation with the pillows. I remember looking at them on campus and thinking that that was a cool idea. The pillows were small but they held a powerful message. I also thought her piece with individual stories was really strong. I liked how the image was just of the the person involved but when you looked closer it had a layer of text telling their story. I liked the hidden but obvious quality to the pieces. This goes more with the pillow installation then the others but they also had little things that hidden but in your face. For example: the American flag one. It was an image of the American flag but when you look closer people made up the stripes and crosses made up the stars. Over all, I thought she did a good job with her presentation and i would like to she how she can take her work to the next level.

Candyce Musinski - Final Blog Assignment (Marcy Geyer)

Marcy Geyer's art presentation was an extremely moving one. As an activist for the LGBT, her artwork revolves around gay and lesbian rights. As a fellow activist for gay and lesbian rights, I was very touched by Marcy's artwork and her motivation behind it. I found her pieces to be visually pleasing and detailed with much thought behind them. I was inspired by her art.

Marcy presented a slideshow of her work at Bloomsburg University. Some of her first pieces seemed amateur, but as she showed her more developed pieces, I got the sense that she learned something. She started experimenting with ideas and I appreciated her fierceness. In the beginning, her pieces consisted of printing same gender couples being crossed out or other symbols that intertwined with the american flag. Though these pieces had a beautiful meaning to them, they didn't strike me as much as her later pieces did. One piece that I truly enjoyed was of two political figures' faces being reversed on the other side. The colors were bright and vibrant and text of quotes were printed on top of them. I found her pieces with faces and texts to be a little literal, but very powerful. I was intrigued and the details in them made me want to stare at them for a long time. I loved Marcy's boldness in these pieces.

The greatest piece Marcy presented were her pillows. Marcy used silkscreen on pillows with text or pictures. On the pillows were either pictures of well-known abused gay/lesbian people or text that pronounced gay rights. I thought the pillows were visually striking, but then Marcy took her piece a step further by placing these pillows around campus. I thought her idea was great! Marcy took her art and threw it in people's faces. I loved how publicly powerful she was and I thought she could inspire a lot of other people by continuing this idea. Marcy's pieces questioned our rights and society and her pieces definitely proved her opinion.

Brooke Knepp-Final Blog

On December 7th, I attended the artist talk by Marcy Geyer. She is a printmaking alumni who graduated last spring. Marcy focuses her work in printmaking on gay rights and discrimination, which I believe is a very strong topic that a lot of people tend to ignore. Marcy said that, "You discriminate even when you don't think you are." That statement is true on many levels and it is a little disturbing that what happens around us is so second nature that we don't even realize it.

Another strong topic Marcy talked about had to do with marriage laws and dealing with gay/straight marriages. She brought up a really good point about how you would feel if people were attacking or restricting your straight marriage, since it seems to be such a big deal for gays to get married. People don't want to accept people who are different so their way of reacting is by discriminating. Because of the harsh behavior of straights toward gays, there have been more than enough crimes and even deaths as a result. This is not something that should be taken lightly and I am very glad that Marcy takes this subject into deep consideration with her artwork. I enjoyed hearing her speak and seeing the different kinds of work that she has done with printmaking.

Erica LoPresti - Final Blog Assignment

Marcy Geyer is Bloomsburg University Alumni, and she gave a very interesting presentation on her personal printmaking pieces in the Student Services Center. She was very into her work and had many topics that influenced her printmaking. She had a variety of prints that showed topics such as bullying and gay rights. It was very obvious that Marcy had very strong feelings toward people bullying others and gay rights/marriage. She was even a member of LGBT while she attended Bloomsburg.

Knowing that Marcy had very strong feelings towards her topics, made me appreciate her and enjoy her artwork even more because she was so enthusiastic about it. My favorite piece of hers were the pillows she made and placed all over campus to raise awareness of LGBT rights. I thought this was a very creative idea and an interesting way to spread information to raise awareness about a well-known problem. Overall, I enjoyed listening to her presentation and learning about her works.

Francesca Pizzurro Final Blog Assignment Option #1 Marcy Geyer

Today i went and saw Marcy Geyer's, Bloomsburg Alumni, presentation in the Student Service Center. She graduated Bloomsburg in May 2010, the same as my sister! She was a printmaking focus and really seemed to enjoy it. As she explained her work, i really got a sense of what you felt strongly about. Gay rights and Gay marriage. All the work she showed today was about her progression as an artist for her views on gay rights. She is also a member of LGBT.

I really enjoyed her work as a whole. I think more then anything, i really enjoyed how passionate she was about the subject she was working with. I really felt her progression as an artist and as a person through her work. I really enjoyed her one piece of art work, the one with the American flag. I liked how she didn't incorporate words in this piece because to me, it felt more direct then actually having words explaining it. It was very BAM! in your face America! and I really enjoyed that. I also liked that she was questioning straight marriage as well. To me that was a good twist on going about defending gay rights. Overall, she did a great job explaining her work.