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Kyla Hemmans, a junior The idea of using recycled
media design major, said that materials to make art stuck
Barnhill always appreciates with her. Schwartzott’s
student input and their research looks at the
thoughts on visual art. biography of an object and
the use of recycled materials.
“He likes to hear younger Mozambican artists use
opinions from us because he discarded materials as media
knows how much we mean like an old pair of jeans used
to the art world,” she said. as canvas or a broken record
“Visual art is really important to make a mosaic.
to the art world, too, because
it can represent a community “They improvise to keep them
and is really worth more than creating art,” Schwartzott
words.” said. “They’re giving these
objects a new life and that
ConsTanT constant reincarnation is
reinCarnaTion really interesting.”

Schwartzott, art professor
and curator of University
Galleries, has expanded her
artistic reach to the global
community. She has spent
10 summers in Mozambique,
a country in southeastern
Africa, working with artists
who pursue their art
regardless of circumstances.

Mozambique continued to
be war-torn even 43 years
after gaining independence
from Portugal and the
internal conflict between
the Marxist government and
anticommunists.
When Schwartzott first
traveled there, she was
sparked by an effort to
recycle war machines into
something beautiful and When she returns to campus,
dedicated to peace. Schwartzott teaches her
students about the value of
“After the conflicted formally recycling as well as being
ended, weapons literally appreciative of the access to artful
started piling up,” she art supplies.
said. “Bishop Dom Dinis
Sengulane challenged artists “It’s a valuable lesson,” she connectionS
to use the weapons to create said. “If you have the passion,
monuments of peace by you can create with CONTINuEd
collecting and destroying left anything.”
over artillery.”

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