Artist/Activist Lillian Ball to speak at Elon

   

You can view her work here:  http://www.lillianball.com/

Student Juried Exhibition: Kaleidoscope

Through December 1, Arts West Gallery
Opening reception, Thursday, 11/4:  12:30

Christian Karkow, October 4-November 4

Opening reception, Monday October 4
Arts West Gallery, 12:30 p.m.
Artist lecture, Monday, October 4
Yeager Auditorium, Center for the Arts, 5:30 PM

After a few short years of sculpting, Karkow, also an architect, prefers a blurred boundary between art and craft, and tool and folly. The experimentation in his art embodies this concept. After attempting to make a tool for some process, the resulting artifact is oftentimes art. Exhibition continues through November 4.

Women of the Mexican Revolution, opening reception

Monday, September 27, Isabella Cannon Room, 6 p.m.

Thirty images of the seldom seen but very important role women played in Mexico’s revolution. Soldaderas not only joined the battle on the frontlines, they performed the many thankless tasks that go along with fighting, which allowed the troops to succeed. Their participation had an immense impact on shaping Mexico’s history and society.   Exhibition continues through November 17.

Heather Freeman: Printmaker, Mixed-Media artist

Reception:  
Monday, September 13, 12:30 PM
Arts West Gallery


Artist lecture: 
Monday, September 13 5:30 PM 
Yeager Recital Hall
Center for the Arts








Since the inception of the scientific method, politics and political religion, blind-sighting skepticism and violent desire for the accuracy of a false hypothesis have perverted this elegant system of its effectiveness.  Freeman prefers not to challenge established theory but to search for "truths" by exploring myths, superstitions and expectations of the past to propose where reality may lie – and to also point out and accentuate its occasional absurdity. Exhibition on view in Arts West Gallery August 28 through September 29.


Bio:
Heather D. Freeman is Assistant Professor of Digital Media at the University of North Carolina - Charlotte where she teaches digital print, animation, video, installation and drawing. She grew in Skillman, New Jersey and was heavily influenced by her parents’ careers in the sciences. She holds a BA in Fine Art and German Studies from Oberlin College and an MFA in Studio Art from Rutgers University.  Her work is regularly exhibited regionally and nationally and has appeared in international exhibitions in Canada, China, Cuba, Germany, Hungary, New Zealand, Sweden and Thailand. More of her work can be viewed at EpicAnt.com and PersonalDemons.org. 

Jack Smith, Little Ladies of Fashion

Thursday, September 9
Opening receptionIsabella Cannon Room, 6 p.m.

Associate Professor and Costume Designer at Elon University, Jack Smith will exhibit half-scale costumes representing traditional clothing of many different cultures. Exhibition on view August 20 through September 22.

Art in the Park

Environmental activist/author visits Elon for public talk - April 22

Annie Leonard, the activist behind the short film/flash animation “The Story of Stuff,” comes to Elon University for an April 22 evening lecture on the costs associated with the nation’s consumer-driven culture. Leonard’s appearance in McKinnon Hall, which is free and open to the public, coincides with Earth Day 2010.

Leonard has spent 10 years traveling the globe fighting environmental threats. She narrates the film with a rapid, often humorous and always engaging story about “all our stuff - where it comes from and where it goes when we throw it away.”

Leonard examines the real costs of extraction, production, distribution, consumption and disposal, and she isolates the moment in history where she says the trend of consumption mania began. "The Story of Stuff" examines how economic policies of the post-World War II era ushered in notions of “planned obsolescence” and “perceived obsolescence” and how these notions are still driving much of the U.S. and global economies today.

The talk begins at 7:30 p.m. To watch the flash animation, visit Leonard’s web site www.storyofstuff.com.

Zeroes and Ones: Exhibition of Advanced Digital Art Students

Alamance Arts Council April 14–May 20. Reception Thursday April 22, 6:30-8:30.

213 South Main Street
Graham, NC 27253-3301
(336) 226-4495

Art Installations

Newly admitted BFA students, Marlee Belmonte and Mark Capozzola, will be hosting an opening reception for their installation "Discourse" in the Trollinger House (Arts and Letters Community) Friday 4/16 at 4pm-5:30pm. Please come and explore the piece as well as ask questions and enjoy some refreshments. Hope to see you there, and if you cannot make the reception but would still like to see the work, feel free to email Mark at mcapazzola@elon.edu and they can arrange another showing.

Senior Thesis Exhibitions

April 18-May 14

Thesis exhibitions for Elon Art Department graduating seniors.

Receptions on Sunday April 18, 1–3 and Sunday May 2, 1–3.

Arts West Gallery and Isabella Cannon Room in Center for the Arts

An-My Le

Arts West Gallery, March 7 - April 14

Closing reception and discussion (with pizza!): Wednesday, April 14, 12:30 PM, Arts West Foyer

An-My Le, a Vietnamese refugee, examines the complex cultures of warfare through the combined lenses of traditional documentary photography and the drama of Hollywood films. Her work focuses on Vietnam War re-enactments and military training sites to prepare soldiers for service in Iraq and Afghanistan. The lovely aesthetics and dispassionate distance of her photographs seem to belie the sobering nature of battle while complementing the truth of their simulation. This dissonance brings into question the viewer’s assumptions about the depiction and realities of war.

An-My Le currently teaches in the photography program at Bard College. Exhibitions include Rhode Island School of Design, Columbia College, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Cornell University. She was awarded a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and her work resides in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris.

Steven M. Johnson coming to Elon

WHEN: Wednesday, March 31
WHO/WHAT: Designer Steven M. Johnson, "Imagine If: What the World Needs Now"
WHERE: LaRose Digital Theatre, Koury Business Center, 7:30 p.m.

Digital Artist Joe Von Stengel visits Elon Friday March 12

Artist lecture, Friday, March 12th, 12:00-1:00PM, Room 126 Arts West

NY-based digital artist Joseph Von Stengel will give a presentation on his work, which ranges from interactive net.art games meant to evoke the early Atari aesthetic to digital photography of Life board-game pieces recontextualized into car accidents and military invasions.

Art History Speaker Series

Student Curated Art Exhibition -- Tuesday 2/23 at 5:30 in the Isabella Cannon Room

Lovers of Art, listen up!

Many of you are interested in museum studies and curatorial projects so I know you will be excited about Tuesday’s student curated art exhibition, which opens to the Elon community on Tuesday at 5:30 in Isabella Cannon Room (Fine Arts Center). Erin Day, Nichole Rawlings and Travis Butler have curated (and created art) to accompany William Chapman’s Nyaho’s visit to Elon this coming week. Nyaho is a pianist who plays and collects Diaspora composers.

Don’t know that Diaspora means?

Come to his piano recital on Monday at 7:30 in Whitely Auditorium...
Or, come to the creative workshop with Nayho on Tuesday at 4;15 in Whitley Auditorium...
And, come to the art opening on Tuesday at 5:30 in Isabella Cannon Room.

Have questions or need more information, contact Dr. Evan Gatti at: egatti@elon.edu

Reception and gallery talk for current Arts West Gallery exhibition

Please plan on starting the semester right by joining the art department in welcoming visiting artist Brant Schuller on Monday, Feb. 8th at 12:30 in Arts West Gallery. Brant is an interesting printmaker/installation artist that will have his work on display for the month of February. At the reception he will be giving a brief lecture on his work.

The exhibition of Schuller's work focuses on making the often passive role of the observer into an active one. Schuller has been exploring ways to capture time through drawing, more specifically tracing as a means to map or document the experience of looking. The images in the exhibition include tracings of the landscape as it sped by from automobiles, trains, buses and planes. These “Travel Tracings” were than hand colored with acrylic paint using the colors found in the landscape. Many of these images take the shape of the car window and reinforce the viewer’s position in the documented place. Other tracings have Schuller gazing out windows from banal and famous locations such as the bedroom of Charles Demuth. In “Exterior Tracings” he documents not only the activity outside, but also his constantly changing viewpoints. These flattened images compress the space into imagery that often reinforces the sites he chooses to work.

Time Arts class installations

Students in ART 114 Time Arts constructed installations in the display cases of the Arts West foyer. Exploring various issues surrounding material culture, students gathered objects found at thrift stores and other assorted places to transform the cases, pushing the boundaries of the display case's usual format. From top to bottom: Emma McGregor, Maggie Nolan, and Maria Papa; Joanna Patterson; Blair Foster and Mollie Hunter; Dean Coots and Ryan Cousins; Nick Seckerson and Rob Shapiro; Brent Edwards, Dan Enders, and Greg Gentile.