What's happening...

BA/BFA student thesis exhibits

2011-04-28T11:50:00.000-07:00

April 17 through May 13, Arts West Gallery
Receptions:
BA students: April 17, 1:00-2:30 PM
BFA students: May 1, 1:00-2:30 PM

Linda Weintraub

2011-03-14T11:00:00.000-07:00

Golan Levin

2011-03-12T11:28:00.000-08:00

Arts West Gallery
through April 5

Levin has spent more than 20 years as an artist immersed in high-technology research environments, including the MIT Media Laboratory, Ars Electronica Futrelab and the Eyebeam Center for Art and Technology. His work is concerned with the "medium of response," the revelatory potential of information visualization, and the conditions that enable sustained creative feedback with reactive system. Levin will speak at Elon on March 31.

Art student challenges ownership

2011-03-11T04:06:00.000-08:00

"Senior Joanna Patterson has an eclectic collection of stuff and she wants the Elon population to borrow almost everything.

For her senior exhibition, Patterson, a BFA artsenior, is exploring the conventional notions of property and ownership by allowing people to "shop" at a permanent location at 201 W. Trollinger, a gallery space and home to the Arts and Letters Learning Community, as well as pop-up displays all over campus and a catalogue".

Read the full article here:
http://www.elon.edu/pendulum/Story.aspx?id=5000

Toplu: Landscapes of New Turkish Suburbia

2011-03-11T04:01:00.000-08:00

Isabella Canon Room, Center for the Arts, through March

Reception and artist lecture: Monday March 7, 5:30 PM

"I have a long-standing interest in the cultural landscape of residential areas. My previous work includes an extended project on the suburban landscapes of Midwestern America. I looked at delineations and borders - how residents and planners defined their spaces against the perceived chaos of the outside world.

I first traveled to Turkey in 2003 and have returned many times since. In this landscape, I began to see many parallels to my previous work played out on an exaggerated scale. In 2008, I began photographing the rapidly changing landscape of these far-flung, densely populated regions on the suburban outskirts.

I was initially struck by the Toplu Konut, developments of large scale mass-residences. In these photographs, many are still under construction - plopped down into empty fields at a startling pace. Others are tidy high-rise condominium clusters that are self-contained with their own restaurants, schools, shops, swimming pools, tennis courts, and playgrounds. Within their walls they are meticulously landscaped and manicured. Toplu, the title of the exhibition, has the dual meaning of 1. mass, common; as well as 2. tidy or neat.

Faculty Art Exhibition, through February

2011-02-11T17:23:00.001-08:00

Arts West Gallery and Isabella Canon Room

Reception, February 7, 12:30-1:30, Arts West Gallery

Juan Obando's Arts and Politics class holds debate in Irazu coffee shop

2011-02-11T08:30:00.001-08:00

Artist/Activist Lillian Ball to speak at Elon

2010-11-12T08:34:00.000-08:00

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

Student Juried Exhibition: Kaleidoscope

2010-11-03T14:25:00.000-07:00

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

Christian Karkow, October 4-November 4

2010-11-03T09:47:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-27T09:44:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-11T14:48:00.000-07:00

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

2010-09-11T14:36:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-26T10:27:00.001-07:00

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

2010-04-22T04:12:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-22T04:07:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-16T12:36:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-12T09:30:00.000-07:00

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

2010-04-09T06:38:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-29T09:53:00.000-07:00

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

2010-03-10T16:44:00.000-08:00

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

2010-03-01T11:32:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-23T12:40:00.000-08:00

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

2010-02-12T13:03:00.001-08:00

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

2010-02-01T14:09:00.000-08:00

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.

Small Works Invitational

2009-12-05T17:15:00.000-08:00

Colleen Choquette Raphael,

The Flower Eaters III

Reception: Tuesday, December 8, 12:00 – 1:30 PM

The annual Small Works Invitational exhibit will open this week in Arts West Gallery. All pieces do not exceed 100 square inches each and explore a range of media. Artists from across the United States and Canada have been invited to participate. Exhibition continues through February 3rd.

Current Trends in Print

2009-11-30T13:54:00.000-08:00

Reception Tuesday, December 1, 12:00 - 1:30
Isabella Canon Room, Center for the Arts

Current Trends in Print, represents artists from across the country. The exhibition has contemporary art from both conventional and non-conventional forms of printmaking, with mediums ranging from mezzotints, screenprints, monoprints, collage/chine-colle, and more. This is an International exhibition with artist represented from the US and as far as Japan.

Installation of Dr. Ahmed Fadaam’s Civilization on Nov. 19

2009-11-17T04:24:00.000-08:00

Thursday November 19, Arts West; 4:30 - 6:00

Please join us for the installation of Dr. Ahmed Fadaam’s Civilization, a gift of art to Elon University. The installation of the sculpture will take place on the portico at ArtsWest. A reception will follow, accompanied by a documentary film of the project and a virtual conversation with the artist.

The installation will occur as part of International Education Week and is sponsored by the Office of the University Art Collections, Elon’s Department of Art & Art History, and the Isabella Canon Center for International Studies.

DigiScapes

2009-11-09T18:22:00.001-08:00

Work from students in advanced digital courses (Static Imaging, Kinetic Imaging, and Web Art) will be on display in Center for the Arts Ward Gallery November 9 - 13. Reception Tuesday, November 10, 4:30 - 5:30.

Time Arts class soundscapes

2009-10-23T11:34:00.000-07:00

Professor DiRosa's Time Arts class constructed a series of soundscapes that responded to the nature of place, more specifically, "home." Working from a shared database of sounds the students recorded, each audio piece lasts from one – three minutes, but vary in style, process, and interpretation. The soundscapes will play in the foyer and main hallway on the first floor of Center for the Arts from October 26 - October 30.

Please join us for the first installment of the 2009/10 Elon Art History Speaker Series

2009-10-22T07:05:00.001-07:00

Monday October 26th, Yeager Recital Hall, 6:00 pm
Rebecca Brown, “India's Modern Antiquity: An Unreadable Text, A New Ruin, and the Question of Modernity after 1947”

All that we have in India still lives—several centuries at the same time. The eternity of it all, that is what matters finally.
—Raghu Rai

The simultaneity of India’s past and present often appears in tourist brochures, coffee-table books, and, as above, in the texts of one of India’s premiere twentieth-century photographers. This approach to history and temporality represents more than a stereotype easily sloughed off; it permeates much of how India articulates itself to itself and to the world. If modern approaches to time often privilege progress and place India sometime behind the modern, with one foot in the ancient and always “not yet” modern, then how can artists and architects in the decades after India’s independence be modern? To probe this question, Brown examines two works: K.C.S. Paniker’s Words and Symbols painting of 1964 and Satish Gujral’s Belgian Embassy building of 1980-83. Both artists imbue their works with something of antiquity, but they also provide creative answers to Raghu Rai’s statement—answers that show us India’s relation to its colonial past and ultimately transform the definitions of the modern.

For details about the event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=175382806222

For more information about Elon’s Art History Speaker Series (including the spring speaker) visit -- http://org.elon.edu/arthistory/

DiRosa awarded CATL Scholar grant for her project "(Un)common Partnerships for a Common Purpose"

2009-10-22T06:56:00.000-07:00

With the grant, Samantha DiRosa will construct a cross-listed course in Art and Environmental Studies that focuses specifically on collaborations between artists and scientists. For the next two years she will conduct research with students on such collaborations as they exist outside the academy to make the course transformative, timely, and effective. This project will promote sustainability within new areas of the curriculum, create more visible bridges between culturally polarized fields of study, open up additional possibilities for interdisciplinarity, and assist in demythologizing the roles of artists and scientists in society. Read more about the project on CATL's website: http://www.elon.edu/e-web/academics/teaching/catl-scholars.xhtml

Elon Photography professor and ArtPrize artist Young Kim wins special curatorial award

2009-10-13T10:42:00.000-07:00

From: http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2009/10/artprizes_young_kim_sweeps_away_his_salt_and_earth_art.html

GRAND RAPIDS - Kneeling on one knee next to one of the 50 portraits he created of salt and red clay, ArtPrize artist Young Kim carefully swept away the first layer of "salt and earth," separating all the debris and red clay from the white salt.
One of several portraits that were altered by ArtPrize goers who visited Young Kim's work at 47 Commerce.
"I'll just separate and then take the salt and recycle it, bring it to area farmers," Kim said as he swept away a man's face at 47 Commerce SWin downtown Grand Rapids.

"Traditionally, art is made to make sure it's going to last a long time. I'm more interested in art reflecting our own (temporary) existence," he said.

With ArtPrize over, artists are starting to sweep out or dismantle the art pieces that drew thousands of people downtown Grand Rapids in the three weeks.

Whisking away the pieces that took him more than a week and 2,500 pounds of salt to put together was always part of the plan, Kim said.

What wasn't necessarily part of the plan was ArtPrize goers using 10 elements Kim had placed as offerings to decorate - or vandalize - the portraits.

The offerings were symbols of the most needed elements for human's subsistence, Kim explained: water, iron powder, sea salt, flour, honey, milk, oil, cotton, wine and fire in the form of matches' heads.

ArtPrize goers used those elements to pepper the portraits with matches' heads , to decorate some or simply used their hands to change the subjects' appearances. Some seemed to be trying the art themselves, others seemed just to be having fun with it.

"I didn't necessarily intend for people to pick up matches' heads and embed them into the portraits. They were symbolic offerings and people took it pretty literally," said Kim, who was neither surprised nor angry about the development.
Mark Copier | The Grand Rapids PressA portrait of a man disintegrates as artist Young Kim brushes it away Sunday.
"Other people think it's defacing the work. I don't think people had a malicious intent. This is another level of engagement," he said. "It's OK. It's part of the process."

Young Kim garnered passionate fans of his "salt and earth' work during ArtPrize. When his piece failed to make the top 10, Twitter users set up a hashtag in his honor: #sorryyoungkim.

The Urban Institute for Contemporary Art made a surprise award on Thursday, the night Ran Ortner was announced as the ArtPrize winner. UICA awarded Young Kim $5,000 for his work.

And then today, the work disappeared with the help of a brush and a dustpan. As Kim swept away the portraits, many people trickled in to take a last look at the exhibit.

Rina Sala-Baker brought her grandson Matthew O'Brien to see Kim's work.

"I've lived in Grand Rapids for 38 years and I've never seen the city so awake," said Sala-Baker, who's originally from Italy. "It's been a great thing for the city."

Two artist lectures and receptions this week

2009-10-05T04:47:00.000-07:00

Mariam Aziza Stephan will be giving a talk at her reception in the Isabella Cannon Room on Tuesday from 5:00-6:30 (food and beverages provided). "Her work deals with the painterly languages of representation and abstraction. She explores the seemingly disparate themes of infinity and interconnectedness, through the metaphor of landscape."

Exhibition runs through Monday, November 23rd.

On Thursday, come hear Mark Robinson's talk in Arts West (a roundtable discussion with Will Taylor), 6-7:30. Pizza and beverages will be provided. "Mark is a mixed media and video sculpture artist that is interested in the intersections and networks of culture, technology and visualization. His past works explored the relationships of Quantum (Mechanics) Identity with forms of subjectiviity and cultural mediation found on the internet." He is going to be altering the shape and size of our gallery and has built some type of interactive robot. As a viewer, you will experience a true sound and visual transformation. Also, if you want to see a completely different body of work from Mark, do an internet search for "Lemons the Clown" on YouTube.

Exhibition runs through Thursday, November 5th.

Tri-State Sculptors Conference 10/2 - 10/3

2009-10-03T04:57:00.000-07:00

Keynote: Mel Chin Saturday, 10/3, 4:30 - 6:30

Koury Business Center 101

Though he is classically trained, Mel Chin’s art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. Alchemy, botany, and ecology are but a few of the disciplines that intersect in his work. He insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. Unconventional and politically engaged, his projects also challenge the idea of the artist as the exclusive creative force behind an artwork. (Biography from: www.pbs.org/art21/artists/chin/index.html)

Open mic night

2009-09-30T16:07:00.000-07:00

This Thursday,(tomorrow!) October 1st, the Arts & Letters Learning community is offering a really cool event:

Open Mic Night like you may never have seen before-

Bring your work (anything past/present/in progress), talk about your work, get people to ask questions. Awesome. Good practice for your critique/senior thesis defense!

Thursday, 8pm, Trollinger House

Questions: Joanna Patterson-jpatterson9@elon.edu

Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance, Free Speech and Negativland

2009-09-30T16:03:00.000-07:00

Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Yeager at 7:30

“Adventures in Illegal Art” is a 90-minute video and storytelling presentation by Mark Hosler, founding member of Negativland, with Q and A to follow. No lawyers were harmed in the making of these events!

Pranks, media hoaxes, media literacy, the art of collage, creative activism in a media saturated multi-national world, file sharing, intellectual property issues, evolving notions of art and ownership and law in a digital age, artistic and funny critiques of mass media and culture, so-called “culture jamming”.... even if you've never heard of Negativland, if you are interested in any of these issues we think you’ll find this presentation worth your time and attention.

Is Negativland a “band”? Media hoaxers? Activists? Artists? Musicians? Filmmakers? Culture jammers? Comedians? An inspiration for the unwashed many? A nuisance for the corporate few? Decide for yourself in this presentation that uses films and stories to illustrate the many creative projects, hoaxes, pranks and "culture jamming" that Negativland has been doing since 1980.

Most famous for getting sued for their “U2” single, Negativland has had many years of experience being a tiny thorn in the side of the corporate media and entertainment biz. This presentation touches on a number of issues that are very much in public view these days - creative anti-corporate activism, media literacy, intellectual property issues and evolving notions of ownership and law in a digital age, the art of collage, artistic and funny critiques of mass media and culture, pranks and media hoaxes.

Tri-State Sculptors Exhibition 8/24 - 10/3

2009-09-01T12:29:00.000-07:00

Closing Reception, Arts West Gallery, Saturday, October 3rd, 6:00-7:30 pm

The Tri State Sculptors Association, with 300-plus members, exhibit works that range from realistic to conceptual; in scales from architectural to intimate throughout Elon’s campus. Some locations include the Isabella Cannon Room and Patio, Arts West Gallery, and the Sculpture Walk.

Exhibition runs from Monday, August 24th-Saturday, October 3^rd.

Finders Keepers

2009-04-17T05:15:00.000-07:00

A Room of Our Own

2009-03-14T09:59:00.000-07:00

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

2009-03-06T04:28:00.000-08:00

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.

Art History Speaker Series

2009-02-26T05:23:00.000-08:00

Barbara Abou-El-Haj
What's the Matter with Pilgrimage Studies? History, Historiography, Hagiography and the Camino de Santiago
POSTPONED due to weather
Yeager Recital Hall

Barbara Abou-El-Haj (Associate Professor and Chair of Studies in the History and Theory of Art and Architecture at SUNY- Binghamton) will present: “What's the Matter with Pilgrimage Studies? History, Historiography, Hagiography and the Camino de Santiago" in Yeager Recital Hall at 6:00 p.m.

Abou-el-Haj’s lecture will examine the role of pilgrims and pilgrimage, fundamental to the historiography of Santiago de Compostela, to ask what is overlooked and who is excluded in a history that concerns itself almost entirely with the consumption, not the production, of the cult of Saint James.

She will review the production of the cult in the twelfth century, the documentary sources for Santiago and their modern asymmetrical circulation. She will then trace the centerpiece of pilgrimage studies, the history of the Camino de Santiago (Route or Way of Saint James), its revival in the nineteenth century and its role in political ideology and cultural capital in the twentieth century from Franco’s Spain to its incarnation as an icon for European unity and a premier destination in the trans regional heritage industry.

A Journey of Friends: The Collaborative Art of the Theatrical Designers of Elon

2009-02-26T05:21:00.000-08:00

Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts

An exhibition that considers how theatrical design develops and impacts the choices made in theatre production. Renderings, models, sketches, antique garments and other source materials will be on view as well as costumes and props from recent productions. Exhibition continues through April 23.

Ken Hassell to speak at the Ackland Museum - Feb. 26

2009-02-26T05:19:00.000-08:00

Ken Hassell, associate professor in the art department, has been invited to speak at the Ackland Museum of Art at UNC Chapel Hill in conjunction with their exhibition At The Heart Of Progress: Coal, Iron and Steam. The exhibition focuses on representations of the industrial revolution in imagery since 1750 also celebrates the Ackland's 50th anniversary. Hassell's presentation is part of a series of discussions on industrialization and the exhibition entitled Perspectives on Progress. The talk will feature his images and scholarship on coal mining in central Appalachia from historical and contemporary perspectives. It will take place Thursday, Feb. 26, at 7 p.m. in the midst of the exhibition's main gallery.

A Preparation for Death

2009-02-07T04:19:00.000-08:00

Arts West Gallery

Reception February 9, noon - 1:30.

Jean Sanders exhibition A Preparation for Death consists of photogravure prints utilizing the Buddhist meditative technique called Tonglin.

Inaugural Small Works Invitational

2009-01-27T07:55:00.000-08:00

Arts West Gallery

January 12 - January 28, 2009

Reception: Monday, January 12, 12 - 1:30

We had nearly 100 submissions for this exhibit. Included is work from neighboring institutions like Guilford College, UNCG, NCState, NCSchool of the Arts, as well as institutions like Penn State and Albright College. We received works from California, New Mexico, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Florida, South Carolina, and NY. The 2D works ranged from intaglio, silkscreen, and lithography to oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings; the 3D work included ceramic, bronze, silver and plaster sculpture. This is the inaugural exhibition of the SWI, and it will occur every year. The gallery director, Michael Fels, plans to continue its wide-reaching spectrum and hopes to eventually receive enough work to fill both galleries and publish a catalog with the exhibit. Read more about the exhibit here.

Group exhibit at Greenhill Center to include work of Elon Art Dept faculty

2008-12-07T07:23:00.000-08:00

Studio art professors Michael Fels, Judy Henricks, and Peg Gignoux have work included in Green Hill Center for NC Art's upcoming exhibition, Wintershow.

Opening: Sunday, December 7th, 2-5pm. Showcasing over 100 artists from North Carolina who work in ceramics, paintings, photographs, fiber art, wood sculpture, basketry, drawings, glass work, mixed media.

Greenhill Center for NC Art

Time Arts class sound installation

2008-12-07T07:03:00.000-08:00

Finals week, December 15 - 17; Center for the Arts foyer

Students in the Time Arts class constructed soundscapes on the nature of 'place' by digitally manipulating environmental field recordings. The theme students worked with is 'the subconscious'. The soundscapes can be heard in the foyer of Center for the Arts the last few days of finals week.

Juried Student Exhibition

2008-12-07T06:59:00.000-08:00

October 5 - November 5. Arts West Gallery.

Mario Gallucci, (a past alum) who works at the Greenhill Center in Greensboro was the juror. There were over 100 submissions from majors, minors, and students from across campus. The awards honored were:

1st: Joanna Patterson, "7 Months," book.
2nd: Cole Gorman, "Untitled 1," digital print.
3rd: Casey Catelli, "Perugia Post-Holiday," digital photo.
Viewer's Choice: Meredith Robinson, "Joe," mixed media

Time Arts class installations

2008-12-07T06:16:00.000-08:00

November 5 - December 5, 2008.

Students in the new foundations course Time Arts recontextualized objects and remnants from material culture to create small scale installations inside the display cases in the foyer of the art department. The installations critically explored the contexts, associations, and roles of collections in society, both personal and institutional. Students came up with a theme for their installations based on objects and information they gathered in the world that incited their curiosity and ignited their process of inquiry.

Charles Steele, Serigraphs and Drawings

2008-12-07T06:11:00.000-08:00

Exhibit opens Thursday, September 25; Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts

Steele, an artist and master screen printer, has exhibited his art nationally and internationally for more than thirty years and was a master printer for Watanabe Studios in New York City for Sol Lewitt and Robert Mangold. Steele also worked in Warhol's Factory.

Exhibit continues through February 18.

Read more about the exhibit in the Pendulum.

Libby Rowe, Pink

2008-12-05T09:19:00.002-08:00

Monday, September 29: Exhibit opens; Arts West Gallery

Tuesday, September 30: Artist Lecture; Isabella Cannon Room, Center for the Arts

Rowe’s artistic interests reside in defining and redefining women’s issues in ways that are informational and confrontational – yet accessible – to a diverse audience. Exhibition continues through October.

View more of Rowe's work on her website

Read a review of Rowe's work in the Pendulum.

James H. McEwen, Jr. Visual Arts Series

Art Department Faculty Exhibition

2008-12-05T09:19:00.001-08:00

September, 2008: Arts West Gallery, Isabella Cannon Gallery

Art department faculty kick off the 2008/2009 academic year with two exhibitions of new work.

Read more about Assistant Professor Samantha DiRosa's work and the exhibition in the Pendulum.

What's happening...

BA/BFA student thesis exhibits

Linda Weintraub

Golan Levin

Art student challenges ownership

Toplu: Landscapes of New Turkish Suburbia

Faculty Art Exhibition, through February

Juan Obando's Arts and Politics class holds debate in Irazu coffee shop

Artist/Activist Lillian Ball to speak at Elon

Student Juried Exhibition: Kaleidoscope

Christian Karkow, October 4-November 4

Women of the Mexican Revolution, opening reception

Heather Freeman: Printmaker, Mixed-Media artist

Jack Smith, Little Ladies of Fashion

Art in the Park

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

Zeroes and Ones: Exhibition of Advanced Digital Art Students

Art Installations

Senior Thesis Exhibitions

An-My Le

Steven M. Johnson coming to Elon

Digital Artist Joe Von Stengel visits Elon Friday March 12

Art History Speaker Series

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

Reception and gallery talk for current Arts West Gallery exhibition

Time Arts class installations

Small Works Invitational

Current Trends in Print

Installation of Dr. Ahmed Fadaam’s Civilization on Nov. 19

DigiScapes

Time Arts class soundscapes

Please join us for the first installment of the 2009/10 Elon Art History Speaker Series

DiRosa awarded CATL Scholar grant for her project "(Un)common Partnerships for a Common Purpose"

Read more about Young Kim's installation at ArtPrize

Elon Photography professor and ArtPrize artist Young Kim wins special curatorial award

Two artist lectures and receptions this week

Tri-State Sculptors Conference 10/2 - 10/3

Open mic night

Adventures in Illegal Art: Creative Media Resistance, Free Speech and Negativland

Tri-State Sculptors Exhibition 8/24 - 10/3

Finders Keepers

A Room of Our Own

Chicago painter John Bakker

Art History Speaker Series

A Journey of Friends: The Collaborative Art of the Theatrical Designers of Elon

Ken Hassell to speak at the Ackland Museum - Feb. 26

A Preparation for Death

Inaugural Small Works Invitational

Group exhibit at Greenhill Center to include work of Elon Art Dept faculty

Time Arts class sound installation

Juried Student Exhibition

Time Arts class installations

Charles Steele, Serigraphs and Drawings

Libby Rowe, Pink

Art Department Faculty Exhibition