On Friday, February 7th, the Albertus Magnus Student Veterans Association held an art workshop on behalf of the War Experience Project. Student-veterans Dean Tudeme and Jesse Ede, along with the Associate Director of Enrollment Operations and Navy Veteran, Michael Morrissey, and the Albertus Veteran Liaison and Army Veteran, Thomas Noonan, all created their own unique works of art. These pieces will be put on display as part of the War Experience Project travelling art exhibition.
In 2008, The War Experience Project was formed by veteran, Rick Lawson, to explore ways in which our world communicates about war and the military. It is a personal journey of healing for one and many simultaneously. Over seven years veterans were asked to paint onto a military uniform blouse about their experience. There were no directions and no rules to this project. The works of art created by members of the Albertus veteran population will be on display through the exhibition.
This is a collaborative art exhibition about the military and war. Veteran-painted uniforms are hung in rows resembling a military formation. The exhibit brings outsider art that would ordinarily never be seen by the public, into the public eye and the art world. The exhibition also honors the art created by the untrained as expressive, evocative, and powerful both in terms of the quality of each piece, the message of each piece, and the message of the whole.