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Student Worker Appreciation

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Photo Credit:  Lily Lee.  Left to right:  Kodey Springate, Shaili Patel, Charles Cantrell, Erica Klagues, Grace Flacke, Mat Kuehnle, Randy Soto, Jessica Swopshire

Last semester, Prof. Lily Lee (Fibers/Sculpture/Three-D) sent this great picture from a pizza party she held in appreciation for the student workers who had staffed the Sculpture and Fibers studios last semester.  The students posed wearing their favorite safety gear and some grabbed a favorite tool from the Sculpture studio! They are standing in front of some storage in that studio organized and built as one of their many projects during Fall 2013 semester.

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Visiting Artist on Campus and Gallery Events

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Artist Jill Waterhouse installs work in the University Art Gallery (Photo Credit:  Aaron Fine)

There is lots going on in the University Art Gallery this week!

Thursday, January 16, 9:15 a.m., OP 1114 (main gallery)

Artist Jill Waterhouse will be talking in the gallery about the sculpture/installation piece which she is installing for the upcoming gallery exhibition entitled "Apocalyptic: artwork, poetry, and thought about the end". She is visting campus from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area.  If you can't make Thursday's talk, there will a repeat of that talk on Friday at 11:30 a.m., also in the Gallery.

Thursday, January 16, 4:30 p.m., OP 1114 (side gallery)

Closing reception for the "Strong Foundations" exhibition.  Blog readers may remember that this show features work made by students in the Art Studio Foundations program (generally first-year students).  Faculty have selected some of the best work from this year's Proficiency portfolios to be featured in the Gallery.  As Gallery Director Aaron Fine says:  "Let's all take a good long look at this final sample of work from the foundations program. Free food of course and maybe a door prize too!"

Friday, January 17, 11:30 a.m. (tentative)  (main gallery)

Repeat of Jill Waterhouse's talk on Thursday morning (see above).

Please note also that the the upcoming exhibition, Apocalyptic: artwork, poetry, and thought about the end, curated by Prof. Aaron Fine (University Art Gallery Director and Professor of Art) and Dr. Bob Mielke (Professor of English) will open on Wednesday, January 22.  Prof. Fine reports that new work is arriving daily which is very exciting!  The opening reception for that show, as well as "Lori Nix:  Apocalyptic", a solo show of work by Truman alumna Lori Nix, will be held on Tuesday, January 28 at 6:00 p.m.  As always, Gallery events are free and open to the public.

We hope to see you there!

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Art Department events during Finals Week!

Strong Foundations

Monday, December 9 – Friday December 13

University Art Gallery (OP 1114)

The University Art Gallery will hold its annual Strong Foundations exhibition.  This show features student work from our Foundations courses selected by faculty as some of the most exemplary artwork produced in these intro-level Art courses.  The exhibition will be up during Finals Week, as well as the first four days of the Spring semester.  The closing reception will be held on Thursday, January 16 at 4:30 p.m.

Exhibition of Student Photographs

Wednesday, December 11

5:00 – 6:30 p.m.

Kirksville Arts Association (117 S. Franklin St.)

Students in Prof. Priya Kambli's Photography classes will be displaying work at Kirksville's arts center.  The opening will be on Wednesday from 5:00 – 6:30 p.m. 

As always, these events are free and open to the public.  We hope to see you there!

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Art Department events this week!

We have a busy upcoming week this week–also the last week of classes–in the Art Department.  We hope that everyone can join us for some or all of these events!

Tuesday, December 3                                                         

Art History Out-of-the-Classroom Experience Presentations

All Art History majors are required, sometime during their time at Truman, to gain valuable experience outside the classroom.  Three Art History majors, Paige Allinson, Danielle Bell, and Grace Billimack, will be presenting their experiences on Tuesday.

6:00 p.m., OP 2115

Studio Art Exhibition Opening

Two Studio students, Emily VanGelder and Daniel Riekena, will have work for their Studio Art Capstone on display this week in the University Art Gallery with an opening reception Tuesday evening.

6:00 p.m., University Art Gallery (OP 1114)

Thursday, December 5                                                        

Exhibition Reception

A reception for students exhibiting work from Prof. Aaron Fine's advanced painting and drawing classes will be held.

4:30 p.m., KB Gym

Presentation of Graduate Research

Mayda Bell, Toni Brister, Emily Frierdrich, and Andrea Linskey will present graduate research.

7:00 p.m., OP 2210

As always, all Department events are free and open to the public!  We hope to see you there.

 

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Site-Specific Fibers Project in OP!

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Work by Jessica Zilch

Students, staff, and faculty who are in Ophelia Parrish (the building that houses Art, Music, and Theatre) this week will have a chance to see some great site-specific fibers projects created by students in Prof. Lily Lee's Fibers I class.  There are eleven works in total all around the building.

For the assignment, students were asked to tailor-make a slipcover or other fabric construction that alters a structure, part of a structure, or space in or near Ophelia Parrish.  The works also needed to involve a minimum of two manipulated fabric methods.  Students were also given a variety of installation options, including that the sewn form "fits over the existing structure (like a slip cover), ties or loops connecting the fabric to the structure, or ties securing the structure to itself to conform to the shape of the existing structure (like a wrap-around skirt), or more."

Students were also challenged to "Keep in mind how the color, pattern, imagery, design, and subject matter of the surface [they created] relates to the form [they constructed], and the existing structure or space [they altered]."

The pieces will be up through Friday, so please stop by to see them!

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Work by Anna Grace

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Work by Lauren Moll

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Prof. Lee in Juried Exhibition

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Congratulations to Prof. Lily Lee (Fibers-Sculpture-3D).  One of her recent works, shown above with details below, has been chosen for inclusion in a juried exhibition, Post-Racial U.S?.  The exhibition will be up at the University Art Gallery at New Mexico State University through December 20, 2013.

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Kirksville Skate Park vote!

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"Octopus", Kristen Williams

Prof. Aaron Fine (Studio Art;  University Art Gallery) sent the following about a great class project;  hope you can all sign on and vote soon!

"My Advanced Drawing students came up with designs for a Skate Park Mural for Kriksville Parks and Recreation. Folks can go to this facebook page and "like" the one they want to see become a reality. www.facebook.com/kirksvilleparksandrecreation."  

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Prof. Wilbur Residency

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As part of her recent sabbatical leave, Prof. Wynne Wilbur participated in an artist's residency at the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana.  Prof. Wilbur shared with us information about (and pictures of!) her great experience.

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was part of an AIA group of 5 women (all who loosely have ties to Kansas).  AIA
stands for Artist Invites Artists. In this case, Glenda Taylor (Ceramics, chair
of art at Washburn U. in Topeka) had been to Red Lodge before and invited the
rest of us to join her for a month in June. We all worked in the same studio
and lived in the same restored Victorian house in town. We mostly worked on our
own stuff, but shared ideas, processes, impressions etc. while we worked."

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