WKU Art Department hosts visiting Bosnian artists, the HAD Collective

HAD Collective Artists Hamo Bešlagić, Anel Lepić, & HAD videographer Ilhana Babić visited WKU for a week and created two wallcut murals, with students and members of the WKU community, on site at the WKU Kentucky Museum.

Wall one: process

Surfaces are built and prepared by Kentucky Museum staff and volunteers. 

Anel Lepić (left) and Hamo Bešlagić introduce the project to WKU students.

Anel instructs students in laying out the grid used to transfer their hand-drawn image to the wall.

Gridding!

Anel and Hamo transfer their image to the wall surface with pencil.

Over the course of the project, over 150 students and members of the WKU community participated and observed the art in process.

The image is rendered in paint.

The wallcut process begins.

Students and WKU community members are invited to participate.

High spots are rolled with white paint.

Students enjoy the finished mural.

Wall two: process.

Everyone loves laying out a large-scale drawing grid! With WKU students.

Anel and Hamo lay in the image with graphite and acrylic paint.

Students are excited to join in the wallcut process. 

So are faculty.

Perri Kostecki and David Marquez are trusted with detail areas.

Along with hand tools, the artists use power tools in their wallcut process.

Hamo adds a dilute black wash to the cut-away shadow areas.

From HAD to WKU.

From left to right: Anel Lepić, Ilhana Babić, Hamo Bešlagić.