MFA Thesis Exhibition...

The Pink Passenger

An exhibition of art works by Samuel Parker

March 15th - 19th

Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design is proud to present Samuel Parker’s Master of Fine Arts Thesis Show, The Pink Passenger. Parker has created a series of paintings based on critical dialogues in which individual paintings act as finished responses as well as transitional points for further dialogue. The show explores Parker’s filtering of graffiti, tattooing, and underground comics through the critical exchange of the academic arena.

Artist contact: Samuel Parker at ceroakb@gmail.com

Parker’s work will be on display from March 15th - 19th, with a reception on Friday March 19th from 7pm- 10pm.

Ceramics grad named NICHE finalist...

Jessica Orlowski, a third year GSU Ceramics grad, was recently named a 2010 NICHE Student Awards Finalist.

Two works by Orlowski, Discovered and Good Little Girls, were selected as finalists in the Ceramics: Sculptural category. Only 70 entries out of nearly 800 submissions were named as finalists in this year's competition. The awards program is sponsored by NICHE magazine, the exclusive trade publication for independent retailers of fine craft.

The NICHE Awards program began in 1990 to recognize the outstanding creative achievements of American craft artists who produce work for craft galleries and retail stores.

Winners of the 2010 NICHE Student Awards will be announced at a ceremony in Philadelphia on Friday, February 12, 2010, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, held in conjunction with the Buyers Market of American Craft.

For more information or to obtain images of finalists' works, email jeant@rosengrp.com or visit
www.NICHEAwards.com.

While In Class...

While In Class, an invitational exhibition at the Woman Made Gallery in Chicago juried by Lily Mayfield, will feature first-year DPP grad In Kyoung Chun's piece Buford Santus. 

For more information, email gallery@womanmade.org.

Gallery Hours: 

Wednesday, Thursday & Friday 12-7 PM

Saturday & Sunday 12-4 PM

Woman Made Gallery:

Address: 685 Milwaukee Ave. Chicago, IL 60642

Phone: 312.738.0400

Email: gallery@womanmade.org

website: www.womanmade.org

Limitless...

Limitless

Exhibited Artists:
Didi Dunphy
E.K. Huckaby
Lee Kean
Klimchak
Joe Peragine
Martha Whittington.

Limitless is inspired by the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope by Galileo Galilei.

As Galileo embodied a pure spirit of the liberal arts with his holistic approach to discovery through creativity and imagination, the artists in Limitless ‘reveals hidden worlds’ by taking wide-ranging approaches to art making while using an expansive scope to view the universe. Blasting off through conservative lines of boundary, their inventiveness takes them beyond tradition. In Limitless, modes of play, listening and looking—and a general draw on the senses—are primary.

This event is free and open to the public. Tickets are not required.

Exhibit Dates: Thursday, January 28th- Sunday, March 7, 2010
Gallery Times: 10:00 AM-4:30 PM
Opening Reception: Thursday, January 28th 6:00-8:00 PM
Location: Dana Fine Arts Building, The Dalton Gallery at Agnes Scott College

For more information, please call 404 471-5361 or e-mail daltongallery@agnesscott.edu

Leftovers...

Leftovers, a group art show of group art shows, will combine work from three December exhibits from three Atlanta galleries: Young Blood, Kibbee, and Beep Beep. The show will feature a diverse array of hundreds of works by local Atlanta artists, including many by GSU grads.

Join us for a closing reception on January 29th from 7PM - 10PM. Beer and Wine will be provided. Fun and excitement will be assumed.

Date: Friday, January, 2010
Time: 7:00 PM-10:00 PM (closing reception)
Place: Aurora Coffee L5P, 468 Moreland Ave.

Exhibit Opening & Symposium...

Disobedience: Art as Agent of Change pairs the exhibition of Disobedience Archive, an ongoing, internationally focused video library tracing the relationship between artistic practice and civil and social disobedience, with a collection of documentary photos of the civil war in Argentina titled En Negro Y Blanco (In Black & White). Disobedience Archive presents itself as a comprehensive map of social conflict and as a network of contemporary activism. These exhibitions examine the role of the artist as political activist and explore the historic and
contemporary functions art can play in political discourse.

December 14, 2009 - January 27, 2010
Disobedience: Art as Agent of Change
Ernest G. Welch School of Art & Design Gallery

Join us on January 15, 2010 for a Symposium exploring these issues from 1pm – 5pm at the Rialto Center for the Arts.

Speakers include:
Marco Scotini, Independent curator, Director of BA & MA Visual Arts and Curatorial Studies,
NABA, Milan, curator of the Disobedience Archives;
Fernando Reati, Director of the Center for Human Rights at GSU;
Kara Walker, Contemporary artists and MacAurthur fellowship recipient;
Tami Randahl Morris, expert in Peruvian arpilleras (political quilts);
Moderator: Sylvie Fortin, Independent curator, art historian, critic and editor of Art Papers

Also a Gallery reception will follow from 5pm – 7pm in the gallery lobby.

This event is free and open to the public.

Visit our websites for more details.
www.gsu.edu/artgallery
www.arts.gsu.edu/7506.html

Photography Exhibition...

Picturing Home

Exhibit dates: December 3, 2009 – January 29, 2010

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 3, 5:00-7:00 PM

Location:

Emory Visual Arts Gallery 700 Peavine Creek Drive Atlanta, GA 30322

What is home, and where is it? What does it mean to look for home, to find home, to lose home, to be at home? How is “home” being impacted by the current economic crisis in America? This juried exhibition, including work by GSU Associate Professor of Photography Constance Thalken, presents photographic works that investigate “home” in its familiarity and unfamiliarity, its pleasures and discomforts, its communal and personal aspects. The jurors are Julian Cox, Curator of Photography at the High Museum of Art and Jason Francisco, acclaimed photographer and chair of Emory’s Visual Arts Department. For more info contact Mary Catherine Johnson at mcjohn@emory.edu