Fall 2009 Art 200/500 Events
Art 200/500 Co-Curricular Experiences is a course for art majors and art education students. It is required for six semesters of your program.
While we encourage you to attend all of the art events, you are required to attend a minimum of 3 events and submit the labels in order to receive credit for the class. You will receive either a CR (credit) or NC (no credit) for this course. The course will be listed as TBA – “to be announced,” on your schedule.
At the beginning of the fall and spring semesters, there will be a list of art and design events posted outside of the art office and near your classrooms. However, keep in mind that new events can arise, be cancelled or rescheduled at short notice, so regularly check the bulletin boards and the website: www.marshall.edu/cofa/art.
You are to choose a minimum of 3 events for the semester, attend them, and collect a label from an attending faculty member (they will let you know who they are) at the end of the event. Fill out the label and give it back to the faculty member at the event. The art and design office staff will collect them and insert your label into your file.
ONLY LECTURES BY PROFESSIONAL ARTSTS AND/OR DESIGNERS WILL BE ACCEPTED.
Theatre performances, movie ticket stubs, brochures, undergraduate shows, graduate shows or exhibitions are not acceptable.
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
SEPTEMBER
Cincinnati Art Museum
Sept. 4 | 1 p.m. : "Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection" &
Gallery Talk with Chris Wiliams & Megan Emery
Cost: Free. Open to the public. $4 general parking.
Outside the Ordinary: Contemporary Art in Glass, Wood, and Ceramics from the Wolf Collection is the first public exhibition of the nationally recognized, private collection of Cincinnatians Nancy and David Wolf. It features over sixty-five pieces by the foremost artists working in contemporary craft today. The Inside Story Gallery Talk is a behind-the-scenes talk about the installation of the exhibition with Chris Williams, Chief Preparator, and Megan Emery, Assistant Conservator of Objects. The Wolf Collection will be on display until Sept. 13.
Fairmont State Brooks Gallery
Sept. 8 | 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. : Derek Overfield Gallery Talk and Reception
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Derek Overfield Alumnus Art Exhibition. Opening reception and gallery talk by artist in the J.D. Brooks Gallery in Wallman Hall.
Speed Museum
Sept. 12 & 26 | 12 p.m. - 3 p.m. : Skylar Smith and Jenny Shircliff Workshop, "Art Sparks Family Studio: Building Green"
Cost: $5 for non-members.
Are you keen on being green? Join artist Skylar Smith and Jenny Shircliff for this opportunity to make art with the environment in mind and try your hand at building constructions using organic materials.
Birke Art Gallery
Sept. 14 | 5-8 p.m. : Erika Osborne Gallery Talk and Reception
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Erika Osborne received her BFA from the Univeristy of Utah in painting and drawing and her MFA from the University of New Mexico. Osborne's artwork deals directly with cultural connections to place and environment; she taught environmentally based field courses at the University of New Mexico and has developed two similarly driven courses in her current role as assistant professor of painting and drawing at West Virginia University. She has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, locally, nationally and internationally. Her work has been highlighted in regional publications along with national art magazine such as Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine and Southwest Art Magazine. Osborne's work will be on display from Sept. 14 through Oct. 8.
Speed Museum
Sept. 17 | 6 p.m. : "Artist Dialogues: Creative Practice and Process"
COST: Free. Open to the public.
In this series, artists from the vital local visual arts community will offer insights into their artistic practice and process. Four to five artists, from different generations and working in varied media, will briefly present their most current body of work or project. After each presentation, there will be a discussion about the artist’s underlying, motivating ideas, themes, and influences as well as aesthetic decisions. Presentation is in the Speed Auditorium.
Huntington Museum of Art
Sept. 24 | 7 p.m. : Public Presentation by Aysha Peltz for "Capturing Moments with Porcelain - Wet Altering"
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Master Artist Presentation by Aysha Peltz with reception to follow. Peltz is currently a studio potter and on the ceramic faculty at Bennington College in Vermont. She received her Master of Fine Arts and Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art and Design at New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, Alfred, N.Y. Her work has been exhibited across the United States. She has taught workshops in Massachusetts, New York, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, Michigan and New Jersey. In 2004, she served as resident artist at the Alfred Summer School at the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York. Peltz's work will be on display from Sept. 19 through Nov. 25.
Morehead State University
Sept. 25 | 10:20 a.m. & 12:40 p.m. : Lecture by Visiting Artist Lori Larusso for "The Shape of Things"
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Lori Larusso, visiting artist lecture. Discussion of work displayed in exhibition, "The Shape of Things: Works by Mollie Oblinger, Analia Segal, and Lori LaRusso." The artists' work will be on display from Aug. 26 through Sept. 25.
Huntington Museum of Art
Sept. 25-27 | 9 a.m. - 4 p.m : Workshop by Aysha Peltz
Cost: $120 for students, $165 for teachers. Contact museum for registration information.
In this workshop, Aysha Peltz will use the potters wheel as a tool to make pots that depart from their original, round, wheel-thrown form. Class will explore the possibilities of freshly thrown porcelain by manipulating, texturing and wet altering simple forms into pots. In these pots the class will search for the clay moment when something about the beauty of clay is revealed. During the three days, the class will talk about inspiration, sources and developing ideas. Demonstrations may include: vases, bowls, cups, jars, plates and platters.
OCTOBER
Wexner Center for the Arts
Oct 6 | 7 p.m. : Community Artists Discuss "Compassion,"an Episode of PBS Television's "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century"
Cost: Free. Contact ticket office.
Can a work of art help us to understand past events? What can art teach us about tolerance and empathy? These questions and more will be tackled in a special preview of the new season of the acclaimed PBS television series Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century. We'll be screening the episode titled "Compassion," which features artists William Kentridge (whose work was shown at the Wexner Center in 2006), Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems. Stay after the screening for creative presentations and discussion led by community artists and educators in response to the program. You'll come away newly inspired about how the arts can create social change. This event is part of Art21 Access '09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century sponsored by Art21. Art21 Access 09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month.
Fairmont State Brooks Gallery
Oct. 8 | 7 p.m. - 9 p.m. : Mark Soppeland Gallery Talk and Reception
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
The Shrine to Suspension of Disbelief and Other Visionary Images and Objects by Mark Soppeland. Opening reception and gallery talk by artist.
Huntington Museum of Art
Oct. 8 | 7 p.m. : Public Presentation by Diane Townsend for "Going into Abstraction"
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Master Artist Presentation by Diane Townsend with reception to follow. Born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1946, Townsend received her BFA from Indiana University in 1969 and her MFA from Queens College in New York in 1971. A longtime adjunct faculty member at New York Institute of Technology from 1971 to 1993, the artist currently resides in Milanville, Penn. Her work has been the focus of numerous solo exhibitions at such venues of New York's Broome Street Gallery, Tatistcheff Gallery, Prince Street Gallery, and the Delaware Valley Arts Alliance. She has also been included in a multitude of group exhibitions over the past four decades, including American Realism at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1986, Pastels at Nora Haime Gallery in New York, and in 1983 at Yale University's Artists Choice Exhibition. Townsend is surrounded by color in all of her endeavors, be it in creating her own paintings and collage works, or manufacturing her pastel line that is used by many of today's important artists, including Wolf Kahn. Her own work follows in the tradition of the Color Field painters, mid-20th century masterminds such as Robert Motherwell, and Mark Rothko, whose work was characterized by its bold, flat and solid areas of color and color alone. Townsend's work will be on display from Aug. 22 through Oct. 18.
Huntington Museum of Art
Oct. 9-11 | 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. : Workshop by Diane Townsend
Cost: $120 for students, $165 for teachers. Contact museum for registration information.
The workshop explores and experiments with any painting and drawing materials that lead deeper into abstraction, moving from works based on nature to works improvised after nature to works that are compositions without direct reference to naturalism. Workshop participants will choose a theme, form or a subject and follow it through a series of works that reveal the territory of their vision. Townsend will discuss art from post-impressionism to 20th century to aid in discovery of expressionism where the non-logical, instinctive and subconscious mind takes over.
Wexner Center for the Arts
Oct. 13 | 4 p.m. - Art Talk and Reception with Artist Ardine Nelson
Cost: Free. Contact ticket office.
Ardine Nelson, an associate professor in the photography program of Ohio State's Department of Art, talks about her recent work, including her images of community gardens in Germany. An early experimenter with Polaroid materials, Nelson is recognized for her continued bodies of work with alternative cameras and transfer processes. Her German garden images have been recognized through a Graham Foundation grant and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for 2008–09. She has exhibited nationally and internationally and received artist fellowships from the Ohio Arts Council and Greater Columbus Arts Council. She recently taught alternative camera techniques in Slovakia and previously participated a GCAC residency program in Spain. This talk is presented as part of the Department of Art's Current Perspective series, held in conjunction with the Faculty Exhibitions at Hopkins Hall Gallery (128 North Oval Mall), where a reception for the artist will be held immediately following Nelson's presentation.
Speed Museum
Oct. 15 | 5:30 p.m. : "Sleep Dealer" Film Screening & Discussion with Director and Co-Screenwriter, Alex Rivera
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Gorgeous, intelligent, and intensely imaginative, Sleep Dealer is set in a near future marked by airtight international borders, militarized corporate warriors, and an underground class of node workers who plug their nervous systems into a global computer network that commodifies memory. Winner of the Alfred P. Sloan Prize at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, this film will be followed by a discussion with the film’s director and co-screenwriter, Alex Rivera. This screening is presented by the Commonwealth Center for the Humanities and Society at the University of Louisville, with additional support from the Latin American Studies Program, the University Book-in-Common Program, The Speed Art Museum, and the Louisville Film Society. Screening and discussion located in Speed Auditorium.
Wexner Center for the Arts
Oct. 27 | 4 p.m. - Artist Talk with Amy Youngs and Ed Valentine
Cost: Free. Contact ticket office.
These talks are presented as part of the Department of Art's Current Perspective series, held in conjunction with the Faculty Exhibitions at Hopkins Hall Gallery (128 North Oval Mall), where a reception for the artists will be held immediately following the program. Amy Youngs is an associate professor in the Department of Art's art and technology area. She uses electronics, kinetics, insects, plants and pixels to create artwork about the changing relationships between technology, nature and self. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and her essays about art and biology have been published in Leonardo and Nouvel Objet. She was awarded an individual artist fellowship from the Ohio Arts Council in 2002. Ed Valentine is an associate professor in the Department of Art at Ohio State's Lima campus. His paintings and drawings have been included in exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Paris, Tokyo, and the United Arab Emirates. A ten-year survey of Valentine's work was held in the Czech Republic in 2002–3. Between starting and finishing his BFA degree at the Columbus College of Art and Design, Valentine worked in a variety of positions, including assistant art director for a television station in Columbus, master screen printer in Chicago, and freelance illustrator for Warner Bros. Records in New York City.
NOVEMBER
Wexner Center for the Arts
Nov 10 | 7 p.m. : Discussion with Art Historian T.J. Clark about Luc Tuymans
Cost: Free. Contact ticket office.
Learn more about the Luc Tuymans exhibition by hearing from the artist himself at this conversation with art historian T. J. Clark. Experience the work of this Belgian contemporary artist in his first U.S. retrospective—and the most comprehensive presentation of his art to date. Tuymans is considered one of the most significant European painters of his generation. Tuymans is an inheritor to the vast tradition of Northern European painting and draws on this heritage in his work.
Huntington Museum of Art
Nov. 11 | 7 p.m. : Public Presentation by Dan Mitchell Allison for "Printmaking: Polymer Photogravure Process"
Cost: Free. Open to the public.
Master Artist Presentation by Dan Mitchell Allison. Allison, printmaker and painter, has achieved worldwide acclaim for his work. Born in Houston, Texas, in 1953 the artist continues to live and work in his native town, while garnering attention throughout the country, as well as overseas. He first made his mark on the art world in the late 1970s with his trademark aquatint etchings, created through a unique, one plate, three color printmaking process that he pioneered while attending Sam Houston University in Huntsville, Texas, where he earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree with an emphasis on printmaking in 1978. Allison's technical mastery is on display in this exhibition of his work that includes both collograph pieces and polymer photogravures on canvas. Allison's work will be on display from Oct. 31 through Dec. 27.
Huntington Museum of Art
Nov. 13-15 | 9 p.m. - 4 p.m : Workshop by Dan Mitchell Allison
Cost: $120 for students, $165 for teachers. Contact museum for registration information.
During this workshop, participants will learn to create their own film positives in the computer, burn their images into a plastic plate with light and then etch the plate with non toxic solution. Finally, participants will be able to pull one, two and three color images using the color method developed by the artist to create black and white full color prints from their images.