More SoFA Time!

If you eat too much turkey and trimmings this weekend, don't worry! 

Your couch potato time can be extended. 

Come to the "On the SoFA: State of Fine Art" Opening Reception on Friday, November 30, from 6-8 p.m. and ask questions of our "Opportunities After Graduation" Panel.  Discussants are Becky Alley of the Lexington Art League, Peter Morrin of the University of Louisville, and Charla Reed of the Kentucky Arts Council. Stay for the Hip Hop Listening Party with art senior Mark Terrell Taylor. The exhibition will be on view through January 4 in the Anne Wright Wilson Gallery at Georgetown College.

Opportunity: Mural artists needed

From Leah, Art Ed instructor: If you are interested in painting murals, contact Tim at timothyx11@gmail.com. He will give you more details on the project.

ART 120 Photography, Holga, Fall 2012

ART 120 Photography, Holga, Fall 2012, a set on Flickr.

The photography class experienced a cult classic, the Holga. Students experimented with this toy camera and color film to produce a wide variety of dreamy and even unexpected photographs. If the style looks a little familiar, it may be because aspects of Instagram mimics the look of the Holga.

ART 338 Intermediate Digital Imaging, Exquisite Corpse Project

ART 338 Intermediate Digital Imaging, Exquisite Corpse Project, a set on Flickr.

Results of our Exquisite Corpse project in ART 338, Intermediate Digital Imaging. It was a great experiment to collaborate with others in the class to produce inventive, responsive work that incorporates a sense of imagination through free association. One of my favorite projects of all time. Well done everyone.

Robert C. May Photo Lecture at UK Today

LALLA ESSAYDI

Exhibition: November 16 – December 23, 2012
Lecture: November 16, 4 pm
in the UK Student Center's Worsham Theater
FREE

In her lyrical representations of the female body, Lalla Essaydi employs a visual language rooted in her childhood in Morocco, where public spaces were defined by men, and women were confined to the private region of the home. In her photographs, women literally become part of the space they inhabit: she covers them in Islamic calligraphy that extends to the walls, furniture, and drapes, or garbs them in marvelous patterns that merge into surrounding mosaics.

As a contemporary artist, she also contests sexualized Western stereotypes of the harem seen in nineteenth-century Orientalist painting. “In my art, I wish to present myself through multiple lenses—as artist, as Moroccan, as Saudi, as traditionalist, as liberal, as Muslim,” she says. “In short, I invite the viewer to resist stereotypes.” re-post from the Art Museum at UK

Dead Sea Scrolls

On December 2, 2012 students from my Survey of Art History course and Dr. Clark's Religion course will make a visit to the Cincinnati Museum Center to see the exhibit on the Dead Sea Scrolls. The scrolls are leather and papyrus documents dating from the classical era, around the first century BCE and the first half of the 1st century CE. They were discovered, in the modern era, in caves of the NW shore of the Dead Sea. We refer to these caves, seen below, as the Qumran Caves. Types of documents found in these caves include copies of the books of the Hebrew Bible; copies of books of the Old Testament Apocrypha; and documents written by an ascetic community. 

View of the Qumran Caves, where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947. (2008). In The Bridgeman Art Library Archive. 

Dead Sea Scrolls. (2001). In Encyclopedia of Archaeology: History and Discoveries. Retrieved from http://www.credoreference.com/entry/abcarch/dead_sea_scrolls

This exhibit will be visually stunning, as it features 600 actual archaeologically excavated artifacts plus 10 samples of authentic scrolls.  This is unusual for a traveling exhibition. Most come with 250 to 300 artifacts and replicas.  All 600 are actual pieces from Biblical to the Byzantine period in Israel and many are from recent excavations and on public display for the first time.

Watch this page for another post after the event. And, if you're interested in going, let me know! We're offering NEXUS for up to 4 credits which will include pre-reading and discussion. 
  

PS: If you remember GC alum '12, Jordan -- she'll be working at the Museum Center that day. So, we'll reconnect with a GC alum, history major, and art history/museum studies student during our visit. Yay!

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Get On the SoFA!

poster design by GC art student Lynsey Jordan; for a full list of exhibition artists, click HERE

Join fellow GC art students Stephanie Barker and Daniel Cantu, along with twenty-five other undergraduates from across the state of Kentucky, for "On the SoFA: State of Fine Art," a statewide exhibition of work by students nominated by their art faculty.  The opening reception with a Panel Discussion, "Opportunities After Graduation (NEXUS), is Friday, November 30, from 6-8 p.m. in the Anne Wright Wilson Fine Arts Gallery.

Stay on the sofa with art senior Mark Terrell Taylor, whose senior thesis includes a "Hip Hop Forum" (NEXUS) taking place at 5 p.m. on the 30th in the Art Building AND a Hip Hop Listening Party (NEXUS), later that same evening.

Art Pad (Prints and Portraits), Fall 2012

Art Pad, Fall 2012, a set on Flickr.

The Art Department set up camp outside the Caf Thursday and Friday to promote spring art courses. Professor Daniel Graham made prints from the back of his pickup truck while Professor Darrell Kincer made portraits via mobile photo studio.

Sign up for an art class. We'll see you next spring!

The top gallery are portraits shot on Friday. Feel free to copy them from Flickr or contact Professor Kincer for an original file.