Attention Art & Design Students:

The purpose of Art 200/500 is for students to attend lectures by external art and design professionals. Our rationale, and previous students agree, is that hearing artists, art educators, critics, curators, designers, gallery/museum directors, and art historians discuss their craft and/or careers helps students hone their visual, verbal and written articulations and appreciate the broader historical and contemporary context into which their work fits. This behavior also fosters a pattern of regular professional engagement that is expected/required to stay current during academic and professional career. Therefore, in order to receive credit for an Art 200/500 event a public arts speaker must be participating in the events you choose.  

Art 200/500 Events 2010-2011

REGIONAL MUSEUMS, GALLERIES AND VENUES

Birke Art Gallery
One John Marshall Drive
Huntington, WV 25755
(304) 696-2296
http://www.marshall.edu/cofa/art/birke.html

Huntington Museum of Art
2033 McCoy Road
Huntington, WV 25701
(304) 529-2701
http://www.hmoa.org/

Cincinnati Art Museum
953 Eden Park Dr
Cincinnati, OH 45202
(513) 721-2787
http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/

Speed Museum
2035 S 3rd St
Louisville, KY 40208
(502) 634-2700
http://www.speedmuseum.org/

Wexner Center for the Arts
Ohio State University Campus
Columbus, OH
(614) 292-0330
http://www.wexarts.org/cal/

Morehead State University
4165 Us Highway 60 E
Morehead, KY 40351
(606) 783-5000
http://www.moreheadstate.edu/art/

Fairmont State Brooks Gallery
1201 Locust Avenue
Fairmont, WV 26554
(304) 367-4219
http://www.fairmontstate.edu/academics/SchoolofFineArts/default.asp

WVU Mesaros Gallery
University Avenue
Morgantown, WV 26505
(304) 293-2312
http://artanddesign.wvu.edu/mesaros_galleries

Tour Schedules for Regional Museums

Weekend Special Exhibition Tours

Cincinnati Art Museum
Tours run Saturday and Sunday
*Visit website for further info http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/

Highlights of the Permanent Collection Tours
Cincinnati Art Museum
Tour highlights of the Cincinnati Art Museum’s world-class permanent collections.
Tours run Tuesday and Thursday
*Visit website for further info http://www.cincinnatiartmuseum.org/

Best of the Collection Tours
Free every Friday, Saturday & Sunday!
The Speed Art Museum
Discover something new about your favorite work of art. Best of the Collection tours are led by the experts every Friday at 7p and Saturday & Sunday at 1 & 3p. Meet at the visitor welcome desk. Free to all!
*For more Info visit http://www.speedmuseum.org/

Walk in Tours Wexler Center for the Arts
Ohio State University
Make the most of your visit to our exhibitions. Take a lively, informative Walk-in Tour. Your docent (tour guide) introduces some of the many highlights in our current exhibitions while also encouraging you to ask questions and express your own ideas. This summer you can see the first major survey of the work of leading American artist Mark Bradford, the 2009-10 Wexner Center Residency Award recipient in visual arts. You may also talk about Works for Columbus, OH, an installation by artist Zoe Strauss on view in the lower lobby. Admission to the galleries is free after 4 PM on Thursday, and there is no charge for Walk-in Tours. Tours last about an hour and begin at 5 PM. For more information visit http://www.wexarts.org

Artist Lectures and Workshops

September 2010

Michael Sherwin
WVU Mesaros Gallery
September 2, 2010
Using the mediums of photography, video and installation, Michael Sherwin makes art that reflects on the experience of observing nature through the lenses of science and popular culture. He has won numerous grants and awards for his work, and has been exhibited widely, including recent shows at CEPA Gallery in Buffalo, New York, SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, PUNCH Gallery in Seattle, Washington, and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Sherwin earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon in 2004, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University in 1999. He has been a member of the faculty at institutions including, the University of Oregon and Central Washington University. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Photography and Intermedia at West Virginia
University.

Human Conditions: Works by Chapman, Hamme, DiDonato & Caldemeyer
Claypool-Young Art Gallery Morehead State University
*Visiting Artist Lecture:
Gary Chapman, September 3 (Friday), 10:20 – 11:20 a.m. & 12:40 – 1:40 p.m.

Sixteen Hands Ceramics Exhibition
Birke Art Gallery
August 23-September 9
Install:
Closing Reception: Sept 7, 5-8 pm
Guest lecture: 7 pm

Nate Larson

WVU Mesaros Gallery

September 23, 2010
Nate Larson is a full-time faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. His work with photographic media, artist books and narrative video has been widely exhibited across the US and internationally. Numerous publications have reviewed and published his projects, including Exposure, Art Papers, The New York Times and Afterimage. He has received grants from the Ultimate Eye Foundation in California; Visual Studies Workshop in New York; the Banff Centre for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and the Illinois Arts Council. Larson earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio State University in 2002, and a Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University in 2000. He was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic Education.

Walter Gropius Master Artist Series Presents: Jon Yamashiro
Huntington Museum of Art
Three-day Workshop: 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. September 24-26, 2010
Public presentation: 7 p.m. Thursday, September 23, 2010
Exhibit: July 31-September 26, 2010
Much of the impetus for Yamashiro’s work comes from personal history, family situations, and cultural memories. In 2007, Yamashiro began photographing what remains of the World War II Japanese Internment camps in America. This exhibition presents 25 works from this series taken during family visits to 10 camp sites. They depict what remains; monuments or open spaces where the camps once stood. By incorporating his own children into some of these photographs, places Yamashiro refers to as “haunted landscapes, where people were held because of their inherited looks” he tries to address identity and race in contemporary America. Another series began in 2007 which he refers to as “Imagination Portraits” use children (his own, and others), to deal with the concept of reality in today’s high-tech world. Yamashiro believes that “Technology has greatly affected all aspects of the world we live in but the questions children have remain the same … I am fascinated by the spaces between believable reality, imagination and child’s play.” Examples from this series will also be on view. Jon Masuo Yamashiro was born the oldest son and raised as a third generation Okinawan American in the “cultural pastiche” of Honolulu, Hawaii. He traveled from the islands to study at Washington University in St. Louis and received his BFA in 1985, then went on to earn an MFA in photography from Indiana University in 1991. Since the fall of 1993, he has had the privilege of teaching photography to college students at Miami University. Jon lives in Liberty, Indiana with his wife Jennifer and their daughter, Lydia, and son, Luke. Last year he was the recipient of Miami University’s Alumni Association Effective Educator Award.

October 2010

Human Conditions: Works by Chapman, Hamme, DiDonato & Caldemeyer
Claypool-Young Art Gallery Morehead State University
*Visiting Artist Lecture:
Patrick Earl Hammie, October 1 (Friday), 10:20 – 11:20 a.m. & 12:40 – 1:40 p.m.

Artist’s Talk 
Suzanne Bocanegra
Wexner Center the Arts
When a Priest Marries a Witch
Fri, Oct 1, 2010  |  4:00PM
Film/Video Theater
1871 North High Street
Columbus Ohio 43210-1393
Located in the Wexner Center’s lower level.
Yahoo map & directions
A story about a priest, an artist, and a young girl in Pasadena, Texas. Part artist’s talk, part performance, part cultural history, part sound installation. New York–based artist Suzanne Bocanegra talks about her work, channeled through Paul Lazar, an actor long associated with New York’s legendary Wooster Group. Together (sort of) they tell a tale incorporating Elvis, abstract expressionism, the Pope, astronauts, the Singing Nun and obviously, a witch. Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Department of Art.

Mark Crabtree & Betty Rivard
October 7, 2010
WVU Mesaros Gallery
The focus of this presentation is on the 75th anniversary of the FSA photographs that were taken in West Virginia between 1935 and 1943, with a particular emphasis on the trip by Walker Evans to northern WV in June-July 1935. The presentation will include music performed by local musicians who are connected with the times. Rivard is a professional fine art landscape photographer who lives in Braxton County. She has completed a book titled Images of Resilience: New Deal Photographs in West Virginia – 1935-43 and has written articles for Goldenseal and Wonderful West Virginia magazines. She has WVU graduate degrees in Education and Social Work. Crabtree is a professional photographer and musician who lives in Morgantown. He has been researching Evans’ 1935 trip to West Virginia over the past fifteen years. Crabtree graduated from WVU in Journalism.

Walter Gropius Master Artist Series Presents: Catherine LeCleire
Huntington Museum of Art
Workshop: 9 a.m.-4 p.m. October 9-10, 2010
Public Presentation: Friday, October 8, 2010, 7:00 p.m.
Exhibit: October 2-December 5, 2010; Bridge Gallery
Catherine LeCleire creates artist books that combine her passion for both printmaking and bookbinding. She uses the book as both an art form and a receptacle of ideas. The artist book differs from a traditional book because there is absolute freedom in the selection of materials, sizes and shapes. LeCleire considers some of her content as narrative paper quilts that document the experience and fold into a formal book format or box structure. Her Middle Eastern heritage is intertwined throughout her work. Fragments of letters, maps, family photos, genealogy, as well as found objects are part of her visual vocabulary. The elements of size, scale, reflection, and surprise are intrinsic to her structures. “Women of War” is depicted in both a large and small format and reflects the neglect of women in all wars. The series “Memory” is a tribute to her mother’s 15-year battle with Alzheimer’s disease which destroyed her body and mind. A number of her works look at the human body and investigate the idea of a box as a vessel or container for organs. All of LeCleire’s books invite the viewer to participate, communicate and experience the work. LeCleire received her B.F.A. in printmaking, and her M.A.E. in art education with a concentration in printmaking from Philadelphia College of Art (University of the Arts), Philadelphia, Penn. She went on to receive her M.F.A. in fine arts from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, with a concentration in printmaking. She currently teaches printmaking and book art techniques at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, N.Y., and Montclair State University, Montclair, N.J. She has shown nationally and internationally and her work is in several major collections, such as the Baku Museum of Art, Azerbaijan; Hunterdon Museum of Art, New Jersey; Lafayette College, Pennsylvania; and William Paterson University, New Jersey. She has also bound books for David Salle, Joan Mitchell, Octavio Paz, Richard Tuttle, James Brown and others. In 2008, LeCleire was the first artist to be awarded a residency through the Adolph Konrad Endowment from the Printmaking Center of New Jersey.

An Evening with Matt Groening
Wexner Center for the Arts
Sat, Oct 16, 2010  |  7:00PM
Mershon Auditorium
1871 North High Street
Wexner Center for the Arts
Columbus Ohio 43210-1393
Yahoo map & directions
Creator of The Simpsons, Futurama, and Life in Hell, Matt Groening is leaving an indelible mark on the popular culture of the United States and many other corners of the world. This evening he’ll discuss his career in comics and television with Tom Gammill, an acclaimed writer/producer/cartoonist, who has written for such programs as Seinfeld, Late Night with David Letterman, and The Simpsons. This conversation with Groening complements the talk by Art Spiegelman, the 2010–11 Wexner Residency Award artist in media arts, held the following afternoon. Copresented by Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, this event is part of the 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art.

Art Spiegelman
Wexner Center Residency Award Artist
Wexner Center for the Arts
Sun, Oct 17, 2010  |  3:00PM
One of the world’s most influential and acclaimed cartoon artists, Art Spiegelman is also one of the 2010–11 Wexner Center Residency Award recipients in media arts. In this special presentation, he’ll discuss his past career and future projects. Spiegelman, along with figures such as Robert Crumb and Bill Griffith, was one of the key artists of the American underground comics movement in the 1960s and 1970s. Maus: A Survivor’s Tale (1986, 1991), Spiegelman’s best-known project, reimagines his father’s memories of the Holocaust as a story of cats and mice and is widely regarded as one of the most important graphic novels of all-time. A tireless advocate for cartoon art, he is a coeditor along with Françoise Mouly, his wife, of the series Little Lit (2000–2003) and The Toon Treasury of Classic Children’s Comics (2009). He also created the graphic memoir In the Shadow of No Towers (2004), along with numerous other works. Copresented by Ohio State’s Billy Ireland Cartoon Library & Museum, this event is part of the 2010 Festival of Cartoon Art. Click here for more information. Tickets for this event are on sale only to Wexner Center members through September 6. Public ticket sales begin September 7.

Bill Gilbert
October 28, 2010
WVU Mesaros Gallery
Bill Gilbert has served on the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at the University of New Mexico since 1988 where he holds the Lannan Endowed Chair as director of the Land Arts of the American West program. Gilbert is also the co-founder of the new Art & Ecology emphasis in studio art and has recently been appointed as Senior Associate Dean for Research of the College of Fine Arts. Gilbert has exhibited his place based, mixed media installation and video works internationally since 1981. He received a Lila Wallace Arts International Grant in 1994 to work with the Quichua people of Ecuador and has curated numerous exhibitions and written essays regarding the work of indigenous artists from the US Pueblos, Juan Mata Ortiz Mexico, and Pastaza, Ecuador.

MU Dept of A & D Sculpture Students
Gallery 842
October 29-December 2
Install: Oct 25-28, M-Th
Reception: Oct 29, 6-9 pm

November 2010

Erika Osborne
November 4, 2010
WVU Mesaros Gallery
Erika Osborne received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah in painting and drawing and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico. Erika’s artwork deals directly with cultural connections to place and environment. She has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with six solo exhibitions and over 30 group exhibitions in recent years. Erika has also been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, locally, nationally and internationally. Her work has been highlighted in regional publications along with national art magazines such as Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine.

Walter Gropius Master Artist Series Presents: Ron Meyers
Workshop: November 12-14, 2010
Public Presentation: Thursday, November 11, 2010
Exhibit: September 25-November 21, 2010; Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall
`Ron Meyers has been making functional tableware from red earthenware clay for 40 years. The various vessel shapes also serve as the base for his humorous, provocative, and sometimes confrontational paintings and etched designs. In writing about his work, Meyers states “my functional pots are made in a casual and spontaneous manner hoping to reflect the juiciness of the material as well as the pleasure of the process … For the past 40 years I have tried to go to the studio every day and hope that something positive happens from my efforts there.” His self-effacing style belies his impact on the ceramics world. He is an icon of the American ceramics community, and has influenced untold number of artists during his career as a teacher, and through visiting lectures and workshops across the United States, Europe, and China. He received his MFA in ceramics from the School for American Craftsmen, Rochester Institute of Technology, and both a B.S. and M.S. in art education from the State University of New York at Buffalo. From 1967-1972 he taught at the University of South Carolina, Columbia. He then went on to teach at the University of Georgia in Athens where he retired

Spring 2011 *More to Come*

January 2011

25th Annual Student Juried Exhibition
January 10-January 27
Reception/Awards: Jan 11, T, 5-8 pm

*qualifies if the judges give a public presentation*

Xiaoze Xie
January 20, 2011
WVU Mesaros Gallery
Xiaoze Xie received his Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of Arts & Design in Beijing and the University of North Texas. His 2004 solo at Charles Cowles was reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America and Art Asia Pacific. More recent shows have been reviewed in Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail and San Francisco Chronicle. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Arizona State University Art Museum. Xie received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 2003 and artist awards from Phoenix Art Museum in 1999 and Dallas Museum of Art in 1996. Xie is the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University.

February 2011

Fibers Invitational Exhibit
B.A.G
February 7-February 24
Reception: Feb 8, Tues, 5-8 pm

Walter Gropius Master Artist Series Presents: Alleghany Meadows
Workshop: February 11- 13, 2011
Public presentation: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Exhibit: January 15-March 13, 2011; Virginia Van Zandt Great Hall
Alleghany Meadows is a studio potter in Carbondale, Colorado, where he maintains an active studio, co-owns Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Artstream Nomadic Gallery and Studio for Arts and Works.
He received his M.F.A. from Alfred University, apprenticed with Takashi Nakazato, Karatsu, Japan, received a Watson Foundation Fellowship for field study of potters in Nepal, and was an artist in residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
Alleghany has presented lectures and workshops nationally and internationally, including at Penland, Anderson Ranch, Haystack, Arrowmont, and Good Hope, Jamaica. He exhibits nationally.

2011 Annual MSU Art Faculty Exhibition
Morehead State University
February 23, 6 – 8 p.m. (Wednesday), Closing Reception
February 22, 11:30 a.m.– 12:30 p.m. (Tuesday), Faculty Forum

Ayumi Horie
February 24, 2011
WVU Mesaros Gallery
Ayumi Horie received her Bacheor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1991, her Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in 1996, and her Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University of Washington in 2000. Ayumi has taught workshops and given lectures at many universities, art centers and residencies in the U.S. and abroad, including the Archie Bray Foundation, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Greenwich House Pottery, Penland School of Crafts, Peter’s Valley, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, the Northern Clay Center, and the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark. Since 2004, she has been on the board of directors at the Archie Bray Foundation, where she was a resident for two years between 1996 and 1998. Her work is in various collections throughout the US.

April 2011

Richard Gleason & Chris Jones
April 7, 2011
WVU Mesaros Gallery
Richard Gleason is a New York designer, photographer and art director. His clients include Jones Apparel Group, which includes Anne Klein and Rachel Roy lines, Ocean Star Apparel, Tommy Hilfiger, Surf/Bicycle/Run and other identity, web and print clients. He graduated with a Bachelor or Fine Arts in graphic design and printmaking from WVU. His experimental typography combined with innovative photographic techniques result in sensational imagery.
Chris Jones, WVU graphic design alumnus, is a partner in Mediaworks, llc and owner of Kidtropolis in Alexandria, VA. The award-winning studio works for E*TRADE, Johnson & Johnson, Comcast, AOL and Reuters among others. Innovative projects from this versatile company has at times turned into businesses on their own, such as Kidtropolis. Custom fantasy furniture and interiors for kids through teens has allowed Chris to mix his interest in sculpture and product design with functional environments.