A Room of Our Own

Friday March 13th from 2 - 4

Opening reception in the Spence Pavilion Lobby (the building in the Academic Village where Philosophy and Religious Studies are located) for "A Room of Our Own."

Located in the two women's restrooms in Spence Pavilion, the exhibition, which features art from the Elon Collection and is part of Alaina Pineda's College Fellows' project, explores issues of gender construction and space. Among other things, the installation highlights the fact that neither WGS nor the Elon Art Collection have "rooms of their own."

The exhibition continues through March 20th.

“And I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it is worse perhaps to be locked in ...” Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Chicago painter John Bakker

Artist talk Monday March 9th, 5:00, Arts West Gallery

On his work: Recent trends in art have shifted the focus from the artist and the artwork to the viewer’s response to the work. Bakker’s large scale, multi-paneled, recent works place the audience in a position to reveal their aesthetic by asking: “Does the artist’s intention matter? Does the viewer’s understanding of the artist’s intention structure the meaning of art?” Bakker’s work poses questions about competing interpretative frameworks for art, politics, and theology. Exhibition continues through April 15^th.