What's Happening this Week

There are couple of fun things happening in the Cochenour Gallery this week.

On Thursday from 4-7pm the Georgetown Main Street Group is hosting Love Your Downtown. In an effort to work more with the college, this community development group have invited students, faculty and staff, the ENTIRE police force, and even the Mayor to come together and chat about Downtown Georgetown.

Don't miss this event! There will be cookies, Nexus credit, and an opportunity to voice your opinion on what YOU would like to see happen Downtown!

THEN

On Friday from 12-2pm, again in the Cochenour Gallery, photographer Tim McCoy's exhibit Sanctuary will open. Mr. McCoy's photographs involves a radical re-framing of reality. Meaning is often determined as much as by what is "cut" from the framing of the images as it is by those elements that are revealed in detail. He has largely excluded human figures, although humanity is alluded to through the cultural icons and remnants shown. Thus, the focus is on what people leave behind rather than the evanescence of contemporary culture. Hope you can make it! Also a Nexus event and... cookies!

Senior Spotlight: Elizabeth Metcalfe

Elizabeth Metcalfe (Georgetown, KY) researched the relationship between architecture and memory (placemaking) within the context of Georgetown College. Below is an aerial view of Georgetown's campus in the 1960s, featuring four buildings labeled as placemakers: Giddings Hall, Pawling Hall, Rucker Hall, and John L. Hill Chapel. Other buildings explored for their placemaking characteristics include the old Chapel-Library-Gymnasium building and Rucker Village. The slide lecture will be Friday, March 22 at 5:30pm in the Wilson Art Building, WAB room 104 (no reservations needed, but the seating is limited).

"Placemaking refers to to the dynamic process of integrating human experience into a space, so that people want to interact with and contribute to the collective experience of the place."

-- Elizabeth Matcalfe

Georgetown College campus circa 1960s, image courtesy GC Archives

She will attend graduate school in art history.

why is this happening?

Senior Art Exhibition 2013 

March 22 - April 5, 2013

reception, lecture and screening: Friday, March 22, 5 – 7 PM

For more information please follow Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery, Georgetown College, Georgetown, KY http://www.georgetowncollege.edu/galleries/ or https://www.facebook.com/whyisthishappening2013

Jeanette Tesmer, Director of Art Galleries and Curator of Collections
E-mail: jeanette_tesmer@georgetowncollege.edu
Phone: 502-863-8399

Boris Zakic, Professor of Art

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