Tonight, Tuesday, October 12 at 6:00 p.m. the University Art Gallery will host a book signing by Truman Art faculty member Prof. Priya Kambli. Prof. Kambli will be signing copies of her book Color Falls Down, recently released by Photolucida. For more on the book and the national award Prof. IKambli won that resulted in the book, please click here.
Faculty Scholarship and Creative Work
New Publication in Art History
Dr. Julia DeLancey's article, "Shipping Colour: Valute, Pigments, Trade, and Francesco di Marco Datini" came out last month in a new volume entitled 'Trade in Artists' Materials: Markets and Commerce in Europe to 1700' (eds. Jo Kirby, Susie Nash, and Joanna Cannon, London: Archetype, 2010). The article publishes research Dr. DeLancey conducted in the Archivio di Stato (state archives) in Prato, Italy on the late fourteenth- and early fifteenth-century Italian merchant Francesco di Marco Datini and in particular on what some of the documents in Datini's archive can tell us about the movement of painters' pigments around the Mediterranean. The twenty-eight articles published in the volume were originally presented at an international interdisciplinary conference in 2005 organized by the National Gallery in London and the Courtauld Institute, also in London. Dr. DeLancey's research for this conference paper and article was funded by a summer stipend from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Truman Egyptomania in London!
Dr. Orel and Dr. Aidan Dodson, who has spoken occasionally at Truman, in front of Late Period sarcophagi in the Egyptian Sculpture Gallery at the British Museum.
Dr. Sara E. Orel presented on the Egypt Exploration Society's Gebel el-Haridi project at the 3rd British Egyptology Congress on September 11th at the British Museum. For more, see this link.
Three friends from graduate school days at the University of Toronto: Dr. Orel, Dr. Julie R. Anderson (Assistant Keeper, Ancient Sudan and Egyptian Nubia, The British Museum), Dr. Carolyn Routledge (Curator of Egyptology and Archaeology, Bolton Museums). Behind them in the case is the Rosetta Stone.
Photo in Argentina & Prof. Kambli news!
Priya Kambli's son at the Recoleta looking at the work of Charlotte Haslund-Christensen from Denmark.
Prof. Priya Kambli and her family traveled this summer to Buenos Aires in Argentina for the show of her photography taking place as part of XVI Encuentros Abiertos–Festival de la Luz 2010. Prof. Kambli was invited to present a solo exhibition of her work at the Centro Cultural Recoleta there from August 6 – 30, 2010.
In addition, her photographic series "Color Falls Down" was selectedby Vince Aletti(Writer/Critic for The New Yorker) as his "Juror Pick" in the Project Prize Category. This prize is part of a new competition: in recognition of mutual interests in documentary and fine art photography, Daylight Magazine and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University have started an international competition, the Daylight/CDS Photo Awards, to honor and promote talented and committed photographers, both emerging and established.
And finally! two photographs for Prof. Kambli's series "Color Falls Down" have been selected by Anne Tucker (Gus and Lyndall Wortham Curator Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) to be shown at Museum of Fine Arts Houston, for their Photo Forum exhibition. The purpose of the Photo Forum exhibition is to put together a group show of works that the museum would like to acquire for its collection. The exhibition will run from September to January at the MFAH. In November the museum hosts an event for Photo Forum members, who pool their money, and vote on which works from the exhibition they want to fund and give to the MFAH.
Prof. Kambli's work can be seen at her website: http://www.priyakambli.com/. You can also read more in this feature on her which came out this week in Truman's campus newspaper, The Index.
Congratulations!
Prof. Derezinski’s shows!
Congraulations to Prof. Matt Derezinski (Visual Communication) who will have two exhibitions of his work this semester. His work (one example of which is seen above) is currently on display on campus at Truman's University Art Gallery together with the work of two other Truman Art colleagues, Prof. Rusty Nelson (Visual Communication) and Prof. Jim Jereb (Printmaking). In addition, Prof. Derezinski will have solo show in October at the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters in Madison, Wisconsin!
(Thanks to Michele Kaminski of the Gallery blog for this photo of the Gallery exhibition)
Dr. Orel in London!
Dr. Sara Orel, Professor of Art History, is teaching for the Missouri in London Program this semester. As classes only get started this week, she has been working at the Egypt Exploration Society library (shown above), where she is preparing a paper to be given at the Third British Egyptology Congress. The conference will be at the British Museum on September 11th and 12th. Dr. Orel will be talking about her investigation of Gebel el-Haridi, a multi-period site in Upper Egypt.
Prof. Bohac in St. Louis
Congratulations to Prof. John Bohac on his juried show featuring current work at The Gallery at the University City Public Library in St. Louis. More works can be seen at the Gallery website and if you're in St. Louis, please come to the opening reception on Sunday, September 12 from 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.! The show will be up from September 1 – 25, 2010 so please do stop by.
Welcome back from China, Prof. Xu!
Prof. Xu with Truman State University students in Shanghai
The Art Department is pleased to welcome back Prof. Ping Xu (Visual Communications) from his trip to China this summer. Prof. Xu spend the summer in his home city of Shanghai. While there, Prof. Xu met with a Truman State University study abroad class led by Prof. Julie Minn, met with faculty and students from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts in Dalian, China (whose work will be showing in the University Art Gallery this fall), and visited Expo 2010 in Shanghai.
Prof. Xu (front row, middle, light grey shirt) with faculty and students from Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, China.
One Prof. Xu's photographs of the Expo 2010 pavilions in Shanghai.
Have a Great Summer!
Prof. Wynne Wilbur demonstrating maiolica ceramic technique at Bracker's Ceramics.
The summer is upon us, and so the Art Department blog will be taking a break unless we receive groundbreaking news! Here's some more specific news of what some of the Art Department faculty members will be up to this summer in addition to the good work all faculty members will be doing on course prep, mentoring students, teaching, making art, and doing research. So, for now, happy reading and we'll see you in the Fall!
Wynne Wilbur just finished teaching a workshop at Bracker's Ceramics in Lawrence, Kansas.
Ping Xu will spend the summer in Shanghai. While there, he will visit the Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, one of top three Chinese art schools where he will discuss some details for the coming international exchange show at Truman's University Art Gallery in Fall 2010. Follow some of Prof. Xu's activites at his Flickr site.
Aaron Fine has received an artist residency at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska City, Nebraska.
Jim Jereb will be serving in May as an historical consultant at the Deutscheim Historic Site in Hermann, Missouri. In June, he will have a solo exhibition at the Loveland Art Center in Loveland, Colorado as well as a group exhibition at the Centennial Gallery in Centennial, Wyoming. In addition, he will be teaching a letterpress workshop at the Wyoming Photography Institute in Riverton, Wyoming as well as serving from May – August as a consultant and instructor at the Wyoming Territory Historic Museum in Laramie, Wyoming.
Julia DeLancey will be working on two articles related to color sellers in sixteenth-century Venice.
Priya Kambli will has a solo show at the XVI Encuentros Abiertos: Festival de la Luz 2010 in Buenos Aires, Argentina in August and will be traveling there to participate in the Festival.
See you in the Fall!!
Art Department Alumni and Faculty at Renaissance conference in Italy!
Three Art History alumni and one faculty member participated in this year’s Renaissance Society of America’s annual meeting held in Venice, Italy; the Renaissance Society of America is the leading international conference on Renaissance studies. Dr. John Garton (BA, Art History and Studio Art; currently Assistant Professor o f Art History, Clark University) presented a paper entitled “The Siege Ladders of Leonardo da Vinci” in a session honoring his doctoral supervisor, Dr. Colin Eisler (Institute of Fine Arts at New York University); Jasmine Cloud (BA, Art History; currently a PhD candidate in Italian Baroque Art at Temple University), was selected to give a paper entitled “A Shifting Sense of the Past: The Early Modern Interpretation of the Façade of San Marco” in a session honoring the historian of Venetian art, Dr. Patricia Fortini Brown (Princeton University); Leslie Contarini (BA, Art History; currently working for the art restoration organization Save Venice) helped to organize and host a session sponsored by Save Venice, entitled “Recent Restorations in Venice: Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese”; and Dr. Julia DeLancey (Professor of Art, Art Department) was invited to give a paper entitled “L’importantissima mercanzie”: mapping color sellers (vendecolori) and visual environments in Renaissance Venice” in a session on period eyes and urban space. Dr. DeLancey also chaired a session entitled "In Search of the Venetian Popolani I: Identities and Representations". Please see the conference program for more information (the relevant abstracts are available in the .pdf on pages 142 (Garton), 1 (Cloud), 175 (DeLancey: chair) and 671 (DeLancey: paper) and for the Save Venice session, please see page 11 of the Special Events section of the program.
(Leslie Contarini, John Garton, and Jasmine Fry in the Centro Don Orione, Dorsoduro, Venice)