everything (very) nice!

Art Seniors 2011(l to r: Hannah Snider, Kelsey Stamper, Leah Babik, Abigail Claire Watkins, Megan Sauter, Danielle Speirs, Brenna Fitz-Gerald)

 

Stewards of True Beauty: How to care for your works of art---Part One

End of the semester. Its been an interesting one. Be sure to take the time to see some of the work that your classmates have been working on during the course of the semester. There blog links are to the lower right. Check 'em out and comment :)

Stewards of True Beauty: How to care for your works of art---Part One: "Song of the day: Katy Perry ET (Benny Benassi Remix) While working on this internship, I have learned a lot of things about how to care for..."

details on senior EXHIBITION:

Location 
Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery at Georgetown College



Dates
 April 27-May 12, 2011



Hours
 The Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery is open daily M-F 12:00-4:30 PM
 and by appointment



Events 
Opening Reception, April 27, 5-7PM
; Closing Reception, May 12, 5-7PM

During the Opening Reception,
 Art History Candidate Hannah Snider
 will give a presentation at 6 pm.



The exhibition … and everything nice includes
 works and research of seven Bachelor of Arts
seniors expected to graduate in May, 2011.

Quick Bios:

Leah J. Babik grew up in Northern Kentucky. Painting
 and drawing are her preferred mediums. Spending time in Asia, 
Africa and most recently a semester in France has influenced
 her perspective on life and work. After graduating, she plans to
work in Ghana doing micro financing.

Brenna Fitz-Gerald is from Defiance, Ohio and Lexington, Kentucky. She has been working with textiles, specifically knitting, crocheting, and sewing, for 15 years now. In the future she plans on continuing to create work, plan her wedding, and get a job, but beyond that, it's still a mystery! See more at http://colorfulmanatee.wordpress.com

Megan Sauter works in sculpture and ceramics. She also teaches 
ceramic classes, to both children and adults and sells her jewelry
and pottery. She plans to enter graduate school and teach
at college level. See more at www.wix.com/Msauter0/artist

Hannah Snider was raised in Taylorsville, Kentucky. Her senior art 
history thesis project examines the initial stages of the 
Permanent Art Collection of Georgetown College. After graduation 
she plans to find an internship in order to gain more experience.

Danielle Speirs was born in Spokane, Washington. She is a double major, Bachelor of Science in Accounting and Bachelor of Art with an emphasis in graphic design. She is interested in the possibilities of combining the two.

Kelsey Stamper is from Georgetown, Kentucky. She works in
digital media: graphic design, photography and info-graphics.
 She hopes to continue to work in this field.
See more at Kelseystamper.blogspot.com


Abigail Watkins is from Mount Washington, Kentucky. Currently, her work is directed toward an approaching life change, as she will be moving to the Netherlands in summer 2011.



For further information please contact:


Laura Stewart, Director of Art Galleries and Curator of Collections


E-mail: laura_stewart@georgetowncollege.edu 
Phone: 502-863-8399

Professor Boris Zakic


E-mail: boris_zakic@georgetowncollege.edu
Phone: 502-863-8107


For more information, please visit: 
www.georgetowncollege.edu/art/

Senior Show 2011, TONIGHT!

Come to the opening of our art seniors' thesis exhibition. Doors open to the Wilson Gallery at 5 PM with a presentation at 6 PM. Join the fun and support your classmates. See you there!

sugar, spice and tin?

...and everything nice, the Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery exhibition featuring work by the graduating seniors, 2011, Leah Babik, Brenna Fitz-Gerald, Megan Sauter, Hannah Snider, Daniel Speirs, Kelsey Stamper, and Abigail Claire Watkins opens with a reception, 5-7pm on Wednesday, April 27.  See you there!

And, I saw an article about this incredible work by Los Angeles-based artist Pae White and wanted to share. 

Oslo Opera House main stage curtain by artist Pae White

It's not tinfoil but a curtain for an opera house, made using a "computer-assisted loom."  To learn more about it, visit this link.   

Moving assembly line

(This is a project from an 8th grader.  The video, research, and images is all cited at the end.)

     Fords Moving assembly line definitely changed the industrial world. For the better or worse is definitely up for debate.  Obviously it created a distance between craft and production. Minus assembly line work like found in the Steinway Piano factory (see trailer below, full movie available in library).
But I think much like the industrial revolution changed the countries view on higher education, Fords work on the model T changed the face of object making and the expectation of the public in its cost and reasonings. This is a constant battle for the role of the artist and craftsman, it is now up to the maker to educate their audience.
     There has been such a loss in the way of productivity, that I don't know if it can ever be redeemed. Much like the suburban mass production that has created so many homes and bred an expectation of speed and less than average creation as an acceptable norm.  I see this now bleeding into academia where education has for many become Fords moving assembly line. It has become a set of boxes to check off with no real skill invested in any one over the other. In what hopes? In the hopes to finish. So many say "I cant wait to get out of here". This saddens me greatly.  (I have not named this subject as  student or faculty because I see it in both.)
    There is a great solution to this apathy towards quality, and it goes back to before the Model T. The answer is investment of yourself into a craft. Whatever that craft is, writing, making, studying, analysis, storytelling, teaching, etc.  Where your time (mental or physical) is there is your practice. For some they have an apprenticeship in napping, some in multitasking, and some have an apprenticeship under the belief of career searching (which for some has potential of rightness).  I just ask you to consider thinking across your time and find who you are learning under.
  

Thank You Juilee Decker and Peter Morrin!!!

and finally, before we forget, a big thank you to our symposium organizers. (below)

Signing out from UofL's Ekstrom Library. Hope you've enjoyed the discussions.

UofL has video recorded the entire conference, including the keynote by Professor Theresa Leininger-Miller, Department of Art, University of Cincinnati.

Panel Three Skype

"Much contingent on what we mean by public." Helen Lessick
pictured Jack&Helen at a conference in Santa Monica

PANEL THREE

MAPPING, IDENTIFYING, AND CREATING LEGACIES: INTERNET RESOURCES FOR PUBLIC ART

Internet technologies, including Web 2.0 technology and other digital platforms, are viable resources for - and a means of creating – public art. An overview of multiple formats will be introduced by the moderator and the panelists will then discuss their current work.

Moderator: Professor Juilee Decker, Chair, Department of Art, Georgetown College, Georgetown, Ky.

Panelists:

• Chris Huskisson, Adjunct Faculty, Department of Art, Museum Studies, University of Kentucky and Lisa Broome-Price, Acting Director, Gaines Center for the Humanities, University of Kentucky, Central Kentucky Museum without Walls website and Take It Artsidephone App
• Helen Lessick, Project Manager, Web Resources for Art in Public via Skype
• Jack Becker, founder, Forecast Public Art, and publisher, Public Art Review, via Skype

Panel Two and Lunch...

lunch topic: the issues of permanence. A nice extension to what came up during the Q&A: How does the temporality of accepted proposals, if a recent trend at all, measure up to bronzes a la Hamilton (you can picture Davidson's fountain here instead, too) etc.? To which, Leticia Bajuyo, quoting Christo, suggested a flipside, that there is a "bravery" of sorts that could be associated with an artist undertaking a project, knowing it will have been short lived and "passed." Rhetorical device or not, the "bravado" does give way to the instantaneous, freshness and dialogue. It also aids to the cost effectiveness by eliminating the need for preservation and minimizing the opportunity for vandalism. After all, consider the annual waxing of all public bronzes required by State of Kentucky as one of those laboursome steps. Thank you Peter for engaging me in the conversation.

PANEL TWO

ART + PUBLIC=PUBLIC ART

How do artists define the terms “public” and “art”? Discussion of specific works and projects in the region will highlight ways in which public art has been created, is received and further re-viewed over time.

Moderator: John Begley, Gallery Director, Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville

Panelists:

• Ed Hamilton, sculptor and Morgan Professor, Department of Fine Arts, University of Louisville
• Leticia Bajuyo, Associate Professor of Art and Gallery Director, Hanover College, Madison, IN
• Valerie Sullivan Fuchs, video artist