JULY 14 - SEPTEMBER 9
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, JULY 17, 6:00 - 9:00 PM
CLOSING RECEPTION: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
GUEST LECTURE: THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 5:30 PM
COLLABORATIVE VISION:
POETIC DIALOGUE PROJECT
Organized by artist and independent curator Beth Shadur, the exhibit is an ongoing collaboration between contemporary artists and poets. Thirty-one artists were paired with 31 poets from across the United States to produce new pieces, taking their work in unexpected directions with the strategic outside influence of a partner. The poets supply pictures through words, prompting the artists to consider text and memoir in relationship to their studio work. The result crosses the boundaries between media and genre, reminding the audience that creators share a common goal of communication.
Shadur, curator of the project, is an artist and independent curator based in Chicago. For more information, visit her website at www.bethshadur.com.
Featured artists included Shadur, Jane Fulton Alt, Granite Amit, David Lloyd Brown, Kay Campbell, Cat Chow, Laura Ann Cloud, Shawn Decker, Deborah Adams Doering, Ana Fernandez, Michael Ferris, Shelley Gilchrist, Jane Hammond, Donna June Katz, Dianne Kornberg, Kim Laurel, Lynda Lowe, Susan Mackin-Dolan, Elizabeth R. Mears, James Mesple, Betty Ann Mocek, Gladys Nilsson, Laurel Paley, Bonnie Peterson, Charlotte Segal, May Stevens, LaShawnda Crowe Storm, Lynn Takata, Annette Turow, Mirjana Ugrinov and John Weber.
Poets who participated in the project include Lois Roma-Deeley, Maria Eliza Abegunde, Jimmy Santiago Baca, Jan Beatty, LR Berger, Karen Brennan, Michael Burkard, Lisa D. Chávex, Martha Collins, Kathryn Dohrmann, B.H. Fairchild, Annie Finch, Beth Frost, Elisabeth Frost, Kate Gale, Maria Mazziotti Gillan, Beckian Fritz Goldberg, Eliose Healey, Michael Heller, Cynthia Hogue, Jeffrey Levine, L. Lindsey Mears, Steve Orlen, Greg Pape, Alan Michael Parker, Margaret Rozga, Michael Ryan, Barry Schwabsky, Peggy Shumaker, Maurya Simon, Nance Van Winckel and Cecilia Woloch.
The guest lecture includes curator and artist, Beth Shadur; artist, LeShawnda Crowe Storm; and poet Maria Eliza Abeguda. The lecture will be held in the Music Recital Hall in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts.
SEPTEMBER 17 - OCTOBER 2
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
YOU ARE HERE. FACULTY EXHIBITION 2009
This annual exhibition features recent work from the Department of Art. You are here is representative of the established talents of the ISU Department of Art, offering a rich survey of drawing, painting, sculpture, ceramics, photography, and video. The exhibition will feature the work of Alma Mary Anderson, Chester Burton, Erin Caldwell, Ray Chen, Glenn Dunlap, Fran Lattanzio, Nancy Nichols-Pethick, Bradford Venable, and Sala Wong. The exhibition is a unique opportunity for students and the community to view the quality of workmanship that is not only taught but also personally executed by art professors here at ISU
OCTOBER 1 & 2
VISITING SCHOLAR LECTURE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 5:30 PM,
CENTER FOR PERFORMING AND FINE ARTS, ISU
PANEL DISCUSSION: FRIDAY, OCTOBER 2nd, 12:10 PM,
SWOPE ART MUSEUM, MARY FENDRICH HULMAN GALLERY
ART IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE:
A TWO-DAY EVENT ON PUBLIC ART IN AMERICA
Presented by Art Spaces, Inc., Indiana State University Art Gallery, Indiana State University Department of Art and the Swope Art Museum
Thursday, October 1: Erika Doss, Ph.D., University of Notre Dame,
Picturing New Deal America: Visual Art and National Identity, 1933-1945
The impact of the Great Depression was felt far and wide in the 1930s, and so were New Deal efforts to restore American productivity and national spirit. In this lecture, American art historian and chair of the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame will survey the variety of visual arts produced in the U.S. under the auspices of various New Deal federal art programs from 1933 to 1945. Such artists as Thomas Hart Benton, Stuart Davis, Berenice Abbott, Grant Wood, Jacob Lawrence, and Jackson Pollock (several of whom are represented in the Swope Art Museum) were employed for the purpose of creating significant permanent art in schools, hospitals and libraries. Through the lens of visual culture and public art, Doss will examine issues of citizenship, changing understandings of public participation and the dynamics of national identity during a most challenging era in American history.
Erika Doss is chairperson of the Department of American Studies at the University of Notre Dame, where she teaches courses in modern and contemporary American art and visual culture. She is the author of numerous publications including Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism: From Regionalism to Abstract Expressionism (1991), Spirit Poles and Flying Pigs: Public Art and Cultural Democracy in American Communities (1995), Elvis Culture: Fans, Faith, and Image (1999), Looking at Life Magazine (editor, 2001), and Twentieth-Century American Art (2002). Her new book, Memorial Mania: Commemoration and Public Feeling in America will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2010.
Friday, October 2: Community and Panel DIscussion:
What is Public Art Doing in Your Backyard?
During this one-hour session, the panelists will discuss topics related to public artists responding to communities; the role public art can play in education; and the transformative nature of art for a city, community or campus. This conversation, including questions and input from the audience, will provide insight into the public collections of Art Spaces, ISU and the Swope Art Museum and how they relate to other models and current practices, as well as their historical context. Attendees may order a lunch from the Swope by calling (812)238-1676 by Thursday, October 1 - or bring your own lunch. Boxed lunches from Boo's Crossroads Café are $7. Otherwise, no reservation is required.
Participants include: Erika Doss, Chairperson, Department of American Studies, University of Notre Dame; Douglas Kornfeld, Artist, Art Spaces Collection; and Lynette Pohlman, Executive Director, University Museums at Iowa State University. The discussion will be moderated by Melissa Vandenberg, Assistant Professor, Foundations, Easter Kentucky Univeristy.
OCTOBER 12 - NOVEMBER 13
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
VISITING ARTIST LECTURE: THURSDAY, OCTOBER 15th, 5:30 PM
RE(SEARCH): EXPLORING THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ART & SCIENCE
The exhibit is made up of 5 artists from different media, motivation, and background. These artists approach the act of making not just with science as muse or impetus, but as researchers in their own right. This grouping will illustrate the range of creative inquiry born from the presence of science and technology saturating our daily circumstance while exploiting it as a common language.
This exhibition features the work of artists Steve Aishman, Ronald Leax, Brian Nelson, Sara Mast and Kathryn Refi. Refi will lecture on the topic in the Music Recital Hall in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts. For more information, please view each artists website or representing gallery:
Steve Aishman and Kathryn Refi: www.solomonprojects.com
Ronald Leax: www.philipsleingallery.com
Brian Nelson: www.briannelsonsculpture.com
Sara Mast: www.saramast.com
NOVEMBER 19 - DECEMBER 4
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
FALL MFA/MA THESIS EXHIBITION
An exhibition of work by graduating Master of Fine Arts and Master of Arts degree candidates. This show is the culmination of the students’ extended visual thesis work and it marks the beginning of their professional careers.
DECEMBER 11 - 19
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
FALL BFA/BS EXHIBITION
An exhibition of work by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Science degree candidates. This show is the culmination of the students’ extended visual work and it marks the beginning of their professional careers.
JANUARY 21 - FEBRUARY 10
JUROR'S LECTURE: THURSDAY, JANUARY 14th, 6:00 PM
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, JANUARY 21st, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
2010 ISU JURIED STUDENT EXHIBITION
An annual tradition at ISU, this year’s juror for the Juried Student Exhibition is Thad Duhigg, Associate Professor of Art, Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. This show features the selected work of undergraduate and graduate students from ISU and numerous awards will be presented in a variety of categories.
FEBRUARY 18 - MARCH 25
ARTISTS’ RECEPTION: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
VISITING ARTIST LECTURE: THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18th, 5:30 PM
HOW TO MAKE A PLACE IN THE WORLD
This solo exhibition features the work of Mara Adamitz Scrupe, Associate Professor of Fine Arts and head of Multi-Disciplinary Fine Arts BFA Program at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She received her BA in French from Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota and an MFA in Sculpture from Bard College in New York. She has had extensive international exhibitions of her site installations and projects and has received numerous grants, fellowships, residencies, and awards for her projects, performances, interventions, drawings, and artist-made books. Adamitz Scrupe has held numerous residency fellowships in France, Irelnd, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Lithuania, and in the U.S. at the MacDowell Colony, Djerassi Foundation, and Sculpture Space, among others.
Scrupe's lecture will be held in the Music Recital Hall in the Center for Fine and Performing Arts. For more information on Mara Scrupe's work and bio, please visit her website at www.scrupe.com.
APRIL 5 - 16
RECEPTION: THURSDAY, APRIL 8th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
SPRING MFA/MA THESIS EXHIBITION
An exhibition of work by graduating Master of Fine Arts and Master of Arts degree candidates. This show is the culmination of the students’ extended visual thesis work and it marks the beginning of their professional careers.
APRIL 26 - MAY 8
RECEPTION: FRIDAY, APRIL 30th, 5:00 - 7:00 PM
SPRING BFA/BS EXHIBITION
An exhibition of work by graduating Bachelor of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Science degree candidates. This show is the culmination of the students’ extended visual work and it marks the beginning of their professional careers.
