South Dakota State University Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange Faculty Publications School of Design 2013 Contemporary Art as an Educational Resource: The oC ckerline Collection Leda Cempellin South Dakota State University,
[email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://openprairie.sdstate.edu/design_pubs Part of the Art and Design Commons Recommended Citation Cempellin, Leda. "Contemporary Art as an Educational Resource: The ockC erline Collection." Cockerline Collection: Prints of the 60s, 70s, and 80s. South Dakota Art Museum, 2013: 7-9 Print. This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the School of Design at Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of Open PRAIRIE: Open Public Research Access Institutional Repository and Information Exchange. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. Contemporary Art as an Educational Resource; The Cockerline Collection From an eager college printmaking international scene, Cockerline originally student in Michigan to a major collector envisioned a collection that would of prints, Neil Cockerline has embraced educate future Michigan art students his educational mission by providing by providing a multi-faceted context as students with direct exposure to great art. inspiration for their own work. By including The adventure started during Cockerline's the offshoot of Abstract Expressionism, early formative years at Alma College in Color Field, Hard-Edge Abstraction, Michigan (1977-1981), in an exchange Pop Art, New Realism, Photorealism, of academic work with his mentor, Conceptual Art, plus several artists printmaker Kent Kirby.