SACRED: MA Exhibition – Hattie Lee Prairie Center of the Arts December 11 – 18 Reception: December 13, 5:30-7pm
Join us for SACRED an MA Exhibition featuring the artwork of Hattie Lee. This body of work is inspired by cultural designs and Cherokee genealogy and features painting, fiber art, and intaglio printmaking. The exhibition will be on display at Prairie Center of the Arts December 11 – 18, 2019. A reception will be held on December 13th from 5:30-7pm.
Red Door Gallery, Heuser Art Center Third Floor November 1 – December 6, Hours: M-Th 12pm-7pm, F 12pm-4pm Reception: November 7, 6-7:30pm
From the Artist:
The photographs in the series Terraria Gigantica: The World under Glass frame the world’s largest enclosed landscapes as possible impossibilities: Biosphere 2’s ocean in the Arizona desert, the Henry Doorly Zoo’s desert in the Great Plains of Nebraska, Eden Project’s tropical rain forest in notoriously gray and cool Cornwall, England, and the high-elevation Cloud Forest at sea-level in Singapore. These vivaria are enclosed environments where plants are grown amidst carefully constructed representations of the natural world to entertain and educate visiting tourists. At the same time, however, they support scientific observation and research on the plants and animals housed under these ‘natural conditions’ that require human control of temperature, humidity, irrigation, insects, and weeds to cultivate otherwise impossible environments and species. Taken together, these architectural and engineering marvels stand as working symbols of our current and complex position within the natural world.
Built in the late 1980s to study complex closed systems, Biosphere 2 was designed as an airtight replica of the Earth’s environment. This glass and metal-framed structure contains a tropical rain forest, mangrove wetlands, a fog desert, savannah grassland, and an ocean with a coral reef. No longer airtight, it is repurposed toward research and education about sustaining our planet Earth, ‘Biosphere 1,’ through study of water, climate, and energy. The Henry Doorly Zoo supports both education and research on a campus with the largest indoor jungle and desert in the United States. Here, the illusionism of these immersive environments also incorporates the display of the animals that live there. The Eden Project was built with a mission to educate about environmental conservation and sustainability. It currently houses over 1 million plants and models sustainable practices in construction, waste reduction, and resource management. Like the Eden Project, the Cloud Forest in Singapore’s Gardens by the Bay is showcase for sustainable architecture and an opportunity for visitors to learn about tropical rain forest ecosystems as well as how to save them from extinction.
While the technical and aesthetic demands of these varying missions informed the physical design of these spaces, the required juxtapositions of natural and artificial elements also generate unintentionally striking visual paradoxes that can go unnoticed. In these carefully constructed exhibits, I turn away from the crowds of visitors, looking for views where the illusion gives way. In these margins, these liminal spaces, the natural and the artificial sometimes meet, overlap, and bleed together, or they collide, resist, and contrast with one another. The visual richness of these small details leads to big questions about what it means to create and contain landscapes. They ask us to think about our interactions with and attitudes about the non-human world. They ask us to consider whether these spaces supplement or replace those outside. They ask us to reflect on the distinction between the natural and the artificial. Under the glass, I frame these views and invite contemplation of nature’s future in a time of climate crisis.
Hartmann Center Gallery October 16 – December 20 Reception: November 7 6-7:30pm
An exhibition featuring the artwork of Sara Black + Amber Ginsburg, Sarah FitzSimons, Candace Hunter, and Vivian Visser will be held in Hartmann Center Gallery October 16 – December 20th. The work of these environmental artists includes installation, sculpture and fabric. This exhibition is organized in conjunction with the Midwest Women Artists Symposium taking place November 7th & 8th on campus.
Heuser Art Gallery October 16 – December 20 Reception: November 7, 6-7:30pm
An exhibition featuring the artwork of Karen McCoy, Cherie Sampson, Jill Sebastian, and Frances Whitehead will be held in Heuser Art Gallery October 16 – December 20th. The work of these environmental artists includes installation, art video, prints, and paintings addressing issues of nature, environment, plant life, landscape, geography, and mythology. This exhibition is organized in conjunction with the Midwest Women Artists Symposium taking place November 7th & 8th on campus.
Visual Voices Lecture – Half Hazard Press October 3rd, 5pm – Horowitz Auditorium, Caterpillar Global Communications Center
Join us for a Visual Voices Lecture presented by Half Hazard Press this Thursday from 5pm-6pm in Horowitz Auditorium. Half Hazard Press (H.H.P.) is a genuine underground, All American print & design studio dedicated to the craft of making unique & one-of-a-kind items. They believe in the simple merits of hard work, using your hands, & putting good out in the world. With a heavy arsenal of trade skills, they bring experience & moxie into their approach to making flatstock paper goods or paraphernalia & live by the gospel of concept & process. Half Hazard Press was born in the true heart of the Midwest, & raised amidst the sprawling fields of corn & soy. Known natively as Gentlemen of the Press, word has spread over land & sea, branding them as Scoundrels of the Arts in their search for similar minds.
Announcing the 7th Biennial Central Time Ceramics International juried exhibition! The show will be juried by Doug Jeppesen.
Doug Jeppesen holds a BA in Art History and a BFA in Art with an emphasis in ceramics from the University of Tulsa, and a MFA from Northern Illinois University. Doug holds the title of Associate Professor of Art/Ceramics at Waubonsee Community College in Sugar Grove, Illinois where he has taught full time since 1998.
This international exhibition is open to all ceramic artists over the age of 18, who currently reside in the Central Time Zone. For entry details and exhibition information visit the Call For Entries page. Or download the CTC Prospectus.
Awards: 1st place – $1,000, 2nd place – $500, 3rd place – $250
Art and Design Faculty Exhibition August 28 – September 27 – Hartmann Center Gallery Reception: September 6, 5-7pm
Join us for the Art and Design Faculty Exhibition being held in Hartmann Center Gallery August 28 – September 27, 2019. A reception will be held September 6 from 5-7pm in the gallery. This exhibition will feature the artwork of Jessica Benjamin, Erin Buczynski, Randall Carlson, Sara Stewart Diemer, Michael Gilbert, Oscar Gillespie, Paul Krainak, Margaret LeJeune, Eugene Maison, Alexander Martin, Kimberly Mitchell, Susanne Nestory, Robert Rowe, Fisher Stolz, Gary Will, and Jacqueline Willis
Jo Hamilton Heuser Art Gallery August 28 – September 27
An exhibition featuring the work of artist Jo Hamilton will be on display in Heuser Art Gallery August 28 – September 27. Hamilton’s crocheted portraiture is a fascinating combination of traditional technique with contemporary subject matter. A native of Scotland, Hamilton earned a degree in painting and drawing from the Glasgow School of Art, but after moving to Portland, she translated her artistic vision into the medium of crochet, which she had first learned as a child from her grandmother. She has made large-scale cityscapes as well as larger than life portraits, ranging from matriarchs to masked women, to giant male nudes, to commission subjects. Her work has been widely shown in the U.S. and Europe as well as in China and South Korea and belongs to museums and private collections in the US and worldwide.
MFA Exhibition – Alexandra Dupont, Dylan Roberts Exhibition: May 1-10 – Heuser Art Gallery Reception: May 10th, 5-7pm – Heuser Art Gallery
The MFA Exhibition will feature the artwork of Master of Fine Arts candidates Alexandra Dupont and Dylan Roberts. The exhibition will be on display in Heuser Art Gallery May 1st through 10th. A closing reception will be held May 10th from 5-7pm in the gallery.
