Gallery Opening Tonight!

Tonight is the opening reception and awards ceremony for the Annual Juried Student Exhibition.  The show has been juried by Stephanie Lanter of Emporia State University.

The reception starts at 6:00 p.m. in the University Art Gallery and will also include a gallery talk and performance by artist David Mazure (exhibition in the Side Gallery).

As always, this event is free and open to the public.  We hope to see you there!

Installation in the University Art Gallery

In addition to the Annual Juried Student Exhibition, the University Art Gallery is also currently hosting an installation by artist David Mazure and The MMXII Collective.  The installation, entitled:  New Mythologists:  The Two Horsemen of the Apocalypse, is on display in the side gallery.

David Mazure will be giving an artist’s talk about performance at the opening, Tuesday, March 3, 6:00 p.m. in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114).

As always, this event is free and open to the public.  We hope to see you there!

Interdisciplinary and inter-program course on Leonardo!

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This semester, Aaron Fine (Studio Art) and Julia DeLancey (Art History) are team-teaching a JINS seminar (Junior Interdisciplinary Seminar) on Leonardo da Vinci.  In the course, students are closely reading Leonardo’s own writings and exploring his notebooks on-line.  In addition, as students at a liberal arts and sciences institution they are being challenged to embrace all the ways of knowing the world which Leonardo used:  so, all students draw, all students do some science, all students write (and reflect in their writing), and so on.  We’ll be doing some more scientific work later in the semester and some building too but for today here are some pictures of students working on observational drawing.  Stay tuned for more!

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Annual Juried Student Exhibition

Submit your work this week for the Annual Juried Student Exhibition!

Students may submit up to four artworks (created as part of their Truman experience)

Works may be submitted in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114)

Tuesday, February 24, 2:00 – 6:00 p.m.

Wednesday, February 25, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Thursday, February 26, 9:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

All declined artwork must be picked up Friday, February 27, 9:00 a.m. – 12:00 Noon

The exhibition is being juried by Prof. Stephanie Lanter, Emporia State University.  Prof. Lanter will be giving a Juror’s Talk on Thursday, February 26.

In addition, a reception and awards ceremony will be held Tuesday, March 3 at 6:00 p.m. in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114).

We hope to see you there, and students:  submit your work!

Dr. Orel serves as Leader-in-Residence at Cottey College

Dr. Sara Orel served as the Leader-in-Residence at Cottey College, a women’s college in southern Missouri, on November 9th and 10th.  While there she met with undergraduate students as well as the leadership team at the College, and spoke to Sociology and History classes as well as giving a public lecture on her archaeological work in Egypt.  She enjoyed the opportunity to talk with the young women there and see Brianne Fulton, an Associate Professor of Art at the College, as well as a 2002 BFA graduate of Truman State University.

Below:  Sara Orel talking with students in the living room of the Center for Women’s Leadership, at Cottey College.  Courtesy of Brianne Fulton.

Sara at Cottey College November 9 2014

Prof. Kambli shortlisted for prize

Prof. Priya Kambli (Studio Art:  Photography)  was shortlisted for the Source-Cord Prize 2014. The 25 shortlisted photographers were selected from a pool of 926 submissions.

The Source-Cord Prize is an award for contemporary photography, comprising an individual first prize of $10,000, second prize of $1,000 and third prize of $500. The award was established as the Cord Prize in 2013 by EA Lindsay, to support contemporary photography. In 2014 Lindsay formed a collaboration with Source magazine to create the Source-Cord Prize. Source is a photography magazine based and published in the UK since 1992.

 http://www.source.ie/cordprize/shortlist.html

Congratulations, Prof. Kambli!  For more on her work, please visit:  http://www.priyakambli.com/ 

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Gallery opening, new exhibitions

From January 27 – February 20, 2015 the University Art Gallery (OP 1114) will feature two new exhibitions:

  • in the main gallery will be Middle Earth:  Midwest Regional Ceramics Invitational, co-organized by Prof. Aaron Fine (Studio Art/University Art Gallery Director) and Prof. Wynne Wilbur (Studio Art:  Ceramics).
  • in the side gallery will be Robert Mertens:  Nothing from Something (Digital/Fibers/Audio)

These two shows open on Thursday, January 22, with an opening reception to be held on Tuesday, January 27 at 6:00 p.m.

As always, Gallery events are free and open to the public;  for more information, please visit:  https://tsugallery.wordpress.com/about/.

Happy Winter Break!

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Finals Week ends on Friday, December 12 with December graduation taking place on Saturday, December 13th.  Congratulations to all Art Department (and Truman) graduates!  Please stay in touch (art@truman.edu).

This also means that the Art Department blog will be taking a break until the week before classes start in January.  However, during that time the blog will feature faculty artwork (and other images) related to winter themes so do check back often!

For now, greetings of the season to all!

Art Department this week and next–great things happening

There are lots of great things going on in the Art Department this week and next including some great town-gown collaboration.  We hope to see you at some or all of them!

  • ART 421 Visual Communications IV project displays for the Red Barn Arts Festival up all this week in the OP Art Atrium;  reception Tuesday, December 2 in the evening.
  • Reception Tuesday, December 2, 6:00 p.m. in the University Art Gallery (OP 1114) for BA and BFA students Molly Diecker, Ali Goeckner, and Carly Winchell.  At the same time is a reception for the Strong Foundations exhibition which features work from the Foundations program, selected by Art Department faculty as examples of some of the best work produced by first-year Art students.
  • Advanced Painting work up until Thursday, December  4 at TruYo on Jefferson St. in Kirksville.
  • Clay People Sale (of ceramics works):  Thursday, December 4, OP Main Atrium, 9:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
  • Work by students in Advanced Printmaking (Melissa Aholt, Kim Allen, and Jessica Zilch) up at TruYo from Thursday through the end of Finals Week.
  • Exhibition of work produced in Painting I and Advanced Drawing:  Friday, December 5, Kirk Gym, 2:30 – 4:30 p.m.
  • Work by graduate student painters Shelby Seaman and Daniel Riekena up at Beard’s Gallery in Kirksville now through Friday, December 5.
  • The student chapter of AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) at Truman will be holding a sale of handmade work;  check their blog for more information.

If you know of something else going on this week in the Art Department that’s not listed, let us know! art@truman.edu.  Otherwise, we hope to see you there!