GC ART welcomes the AAEA

This week, Xochitl (aka Sheila) Barnes, President of the American Academy of Equine Art, is offering a workshop on campus for AAEA painting members. Workshop students have been enjoying the Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Building, the upper veranda & golf course (thank you, Daniel Graham),  and our galleries. If any of our blog readers see our guests, please make them feel welcome.

A bit about their instructor: Xochitl (Sheila) Barnes has been drawing and painting all her life – both parents were artists. Sheila began doing commissioned portraits of horses in 1971. A Full member of the AAEA, she has been a student of the Academy since classes began at the Horse Park in ’92. The AAEA invites all of the campus and community to attend the Fall Open Juried Exhibition and Sale on Friday, September 14, 6-8 pm at the Scott County Arts & Cultural Center.


But, before you head over there on Friday night, take in the artist talk in the GC art galleries. On  Friday at 12:30 pm come one, come all to hear more about the Hanover Connection.

Images of Xochitl Sheila Barnes' work courtesy of the AAEA. 

Jessica Ferguson: Museum of Memory at U of L

"My work is slow, handbuilt, and cumulative, rather like the layering of dust of memories over time."

Exhibition
August 23 - September 30, 2012
Schneider Hall Galleries
Gallery X | Hite Art Institute

Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture
Presence, Absence & Pinhole Photography
Tuesday, September 18, | 6:30 pm
Schneider Hall Galleries

Reception prior to lecture
5: 00 pm, Schneider Hall

The University of Louisville Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce an exhibition of pinhole photography by Jesseca Ferguson of Boston, Massachusetts, titled “Museum of Memory” in Gallery X of Schneider Hall Galleries on Belknap Campus.

Ferguson’s photography alludes to the passage of time, and to what she refers to as a “private interior library” which she believes serves as a paradigm for collective and personal memory. The work exhibited combines 19th, 20th, and 21st century photographic techniques.

Ms Ferguson will be a visiting artist at the Hite in September and present the Barbara Bullitt Christian Memorial Lecture titled “Presence, Absence, and Pinhole Photography” Thursday, September 18 at 6:30 pm in the Hite Galleries. A reception to meet the artist, beginning at 5:00 pm that afternoon, will precede her talk. For further information about Ms. Ferguson or Barbara Bullitt Christian Lecture, contact the Schneider Hall Galleries at (502) 852-6794.

Link to original message via U of L

This Week: Get Your Art On!

Beautiful weather, busy week here in Georgetown, Kentucky, and more specifically, in the GC Art Galleries!  Check out these exciting opportunities:

Tues, September 11, 12:10-12:40 p.m. in the Jacobs Gallery:

First Meeting of the Art Tigers, 

a volunteer student gallery guide group.  Learn about ways to use art objects to engage people of all ages!  

Wed, September 12, 3 p.m. in the Art Building

Kappa Pi SONGFEST BANNER Painting

(L) Bajuyo, Rewind, detail; (R) Whistler, Between You and Me and the Bedpost (detail)

 Fri, September 14, 12-2 p.m. in the Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery, 

NEXUS Talk at 12:30

Don't miss the Closing Reception for "The Hanover Connection: Installations by Leticia Bajuyo and Deb Whistler."  

Opportunity: Teach art to little ones!

Becky Whittemore, the director of the Kindergarten program at First United Methodist Church here in Georgetown, is seeking a student or students who may be interested in teaching art to work with their students once a week.  We are fairly flexible on the day and time.  The school hours are 8:45-3:00.  Afternoons do work best. Interested? Contact

First United Methodist Preschool/Kindergarten

BeckyWhittemore, Director

1280 Lexington Road

Georgetown, KY 40324

fumcpschool@bellsouth.net

502-863-0186

A'shop of horrors...

Students in modern art will be familiar with the first example of appropriation. . . 
a group that goes by the name "A'shop": 

They created the work at the right (thanks to Lynsey for tipping us off to this.) For 16 days straight, from dawn to dusk, this artist-run collective, A'shop, worked on a mural of a female figure that was Inspired by Czech Art Nouveau painter Alphonse Mucha. They used 500 cans of spray paint in 50 colors. Here ere are some progress shots that were taken over the 16 day period.

The artists were appropriating an earlier artist with a newer medium. And, they were also appropriating the wall, since it had graffitti on it already. 

To appreciate this, watch the video here. Artists names are: Fluke - Guillaume Lapointe - Bruno Rathbone - Antonin Lambert - Dodo. More info on them here.

STUDY ABROAD: London & Dublin this Winter

"Photography & the British Landscape"

I will be teaching a course abroad this winter break through CCSA. It is a two-week trip to London, England and Dublin, Ireland. It is a photography course focused on landscape/cityscape and place. The course will culminate in the production of a self-published photo book via Blurb.com.

There will be an informational meeting today, Wednesday, September 5, at 5:00 PM in the Wilson Art Building if you would like to find out more.

Application deadline is at the end of this month, September 28. (The early deadline to save $100 is September 14.) You can apply online at CCSA's website.

I hope to see you at the meeting. If not, stop by my office (WAB 107) anytime before the end of the month to talk.

Links to a previous trip on Flickr.com:

http://www.flickr.com/groups/ccsa-ld/

http://www.flickr.com/groups/1043011@N23/

Link to my photo book on Blurb.com:

http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/642315

Thanks,

Prof. Darrell Kincer

Below is the course description and additional information.

Course Dates

December 26, 2012 to January 8, 2013

Application Deadline

September 28, 2012

$100 Discount for applications received by September 14, 2012

Course Costs

$2995 without airfare, $3995 with airfare (Tuition not included)

"Photography & the British Landscape"

Digital photographers will develop their skills as we explore the cityscapes of London and Dublin with visits to the countryside of England and Ireland. Participants will develop their skills as they explore urban cityscapes and rural countrysides. Daily discussions, demonstrations, and critiques will be followed by fieldwork tuned to each photographer’s personal goals and talents. Opportunities will also arise to visit local museums and cultural landmarks. Once home, the course will turn to online posting via Flickr.com for discussion of work and culminate with each student producing a unique art book of edited and refined photographic work through Blurb.com.

Prerequisite: It is recommended that students have at least a semester of experience in photography and/or digital imaging, although the course is open to photographers of all skill levels, with permission of instructor.

Credit Hours: 3 (undergraduate, upper level)

Instructor: Prof. Darrell Kincer

darrell_kincer@georgetowncollege.edu

502-863-7976

Campus Representative: Dr. Rick Kopp

richard_kopp@georgetowncollege.edu

502-863-8088

Pizza & SoDAH!

Fun TRIPS        Festive EVENTS     Fantastic FRIENDS!

Kappa Pi

International Honorary Art Fraternity

PIZZA & PLANNING MEETING:

THURS, SEPT 6, 6:30 P.M. 

WAB ROOM 104

For more than 100 years, Kappa Pi has offered thousands of art students and professionals an outlet for their success, talent, creativity and scholarship. In hundreds of chapters, including SoDAH (students of design, art, and art history) at Georgetown College, students with a similar passion for visual art enjoy excursions, lectures, exhibitions and companionship that comes from being part of a group of like-minded individuals.   

 

CONSIDER A LEADERSHIP POSITION AND COME TO THE MEETING!

LES and NOoSPHERE cont'd

“LES is More!” was the buzz leading up to the grand opening of NOoSPHERE Arts (please note the name change from .NO). The New Museum had just reopened and a number of eager upstarts started flaring-up the neighbourhood. The last week’s article by Rachel Corbett on bloating of Chelsea, must see article here, only reaffirmed what all of us already knew: LES is fun! Annoying as it may be, listening to manhattanites monopolizing their existence by real estate conversations is beside the point: It is a matter of conviction rather, a kind of commitment to pleasure investments – especially by those who came “not-to-stake-claim-to” anything of estate or land. 

On behalf of the NOoSPHERE Arts Advisory Board, I hope to extend an invitation to the 2012/13 season opener (see the post below). Aptly phrased I Thought We Were the Same Person, NOoSPHERE is proud to present a collaborative multimedia production created by Agnes Nedregard, Moray Hillary and Torgrim Wahl Sund. NOoSPHERE Arts is precisely that, the venue for the ever important challenge of “we.”

NOoSPHERE Arts is an artist-run, nonprofit exhibition and performance venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.

NOoSPHERE season opener, Wed@6pm

I THOUGHT WE WERE THE SAME PERSON: Artist Trio Agnes Nedregard, Moray Hillary & Torgrim Wahl Sund  September 5–30, 2012 Opening Reception: Wednesday, Sep 5, 6-10 pm with live performance by Agnes Nedregard

NOoSPHERE Arts, an artist-run, nonprofit exhibition and performance venue on the Lower East Side of Manhattan, is excited to open the new gallery season with I Thought We Were the Same Person, a collaborative multimedia production partially created on site by Agnes Nedregard, Moray Hillary and Torgrim Wahl Sund. While the nomadic artist trio – based partially in Glasgow, in Paris and in Bergen – have a long history of working together, this is their very first joint show in NYC. Nedregard, Hillary and Wahl Sund will combine a series of individual works into a collective whole that explores the intricacies of identity and individualism. Quoting from their joint artist statement: “While many of us have at hand the opportunity to exercise free will of thought and action, we often forego exactly that option and find ourselves bound by the myriad of societal codes and structures. In everything from expressions of cultural taste and fashion to what we ought to be doing with our lives, there is a tendency to bend to the prevailing conventions of the times in which we live.” Two oft-cited psychological studies of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Stanford Prison Project and the Milgram Experiment, which analyzed aspects of obedience to extreme levels, demonstrate that individuals can be coerced into acting brutally and inhumanely merely by being told to do so. Through this exhibit, which spans the media of painting, performance, video, sculpture, and printmaking, the artists aim to convey their sense that “the further away you walk from dominant trends and attitudes and the deeper you dig into what being alive really means to you, the more able you become to unearth significant expressions of individual thought.” Like Alice, who disappeared down the rabbit hole to reveal a brand new world of imagination and wonder, you only need to take the plunge.

NOoSHPERE is located at 251 East Houston Street, btw. Norfolk and Suffolk Streets. Subway: F-train, Second Avenue–Lower East Side stop. Gallery hours: Tue-Sun 12-6pm. For more information, please contact the gallery at (646) 389-8229 or mail@no-in-nyc.org