ETSU Art and Design News

Jim Hake

2010-10-21T09:29:00.001-07:00

JIM HAKE
VISITING ARTIST
MIXED MEDIA
CERAMICS
SCULPTURE
ARTIST’S LECTURE
Monday, Oct. 25, 7 pm, Ball Hall Auditorium
Student meetings with Jim Hake:
Mon. 10/ 25, 9-noon
Tues. 10/ 26, 9-noon

Call or email Catherine:
439-5296/ murrayc@etsu.edu to set up appointment to talk with Jim about your work or about study abroad

This event has been made possible by the generosity of the Mary B. Martin School of the Arts

Travis Graves Summer Info

2010-09-16T14:43:00.001-07:00

This is an update for Travis Graves and his summer shows:

My Nature your Nature: Yeiser Art Center: July 31 thru August 28, 2010

I am Two With Nature: Featuring works of Cari Freno and Travis Graves, Redux Contemporary Art Center: August 6 - September 4, 2010

Lectures

2010-07-17T11:01:00.000-07:00

Basler Chair Public Lectures

Dr. Molly Faries, ETSU Basler Chair, Fall 2010

Thursday 9/23/2010- 7 p.m. 127 Ball Hall

PAINTING FORENSICS

Popularized by programs such as CSI, Bones, and the History Detectives, forensic method has become a ‘hot” topic. It may come as a surprise to learn that many of these analytic techniques have been used for years in the arts, especially archeology and technical art history. This lecture will focus on study using infrared techniques, the area of the speaker’s expertise, and discuss the implications this and other investigative methods have for academe: devising a more responsible preparation of students for our increasingly technological society and evaluating the incentives and obstacles to interdisciplinary teaching and research.

Thursday 9/30/2010- 7 p.m. 127 Ball Hall

THE BUSINESS OF ART

Technical investigations of early European painting have provided us with a new understanding of artists’ activity. It is now possible to describe how painters set up their small workshop businesses, increased production, delegated tasks to shop assistants, and adapted their products to patrons, local and international art markets. This lecture will illustrate how technical studies have elucidated workshop procedures and show how entrepreneurial developments during this period have profoundly influenced our understanding of art today.

Tuesday 11/16/2010- 7 p.m. 127 Ball Hall

THE POWER OF OIL PAINTING

During the Renaissance and Baroque periods, oil painting was considered one of society’s technological assets, much as we would regard computer technology today. For this reason, it is illuminating to review oil painting’s special qualities and advantages from this point of view. The Hockney/Falco-Storck debate will also be discussed. To what extent can oil painting be understood according to the well-publicized premise of the contemporary painter, David Hockney: “they did it all with mirrors”.

4. Thursday 12/2/ 2010- 7 p.m. 127 Ball Hall

TECHNICAL INVESTIGATION OF MODERN “OLD MASTERS”

In recent years more and more modern painters have been investigated by the technical means that are already well established in the study of Renaissance art. These investigations have led to new perceptions about iconic figures of modern painting: that Van Gogh used a perspective frame; that Picasso worked up his paintings like a sketch pad; that Mondrian’s paintings are as much physical as they are cognitive. In addition, art-technological change during the Impressionist era led to a new democratization of painting.

Summer Course

2010-04-21T05:57:00.001-07:00

Art for the Garden- Summer Sculpture Class!

June 7- July 2, 2010

Monday- Friday, 6-9 pm

Department of Art and Design

Sculpture Area; Art Annex

ETSU

Instructors: Catherine Murray and Angelique Lynch

Art for the Garden

ARTA 4957/ARTA5957

3 credits Undergraduate or Graduate credit Non-credit option available for $300.

Art for the Garden will combine lectures, demonstrations, and hands- on art making.

Students will examine art, specifically sculpture, as it is used in gardens around the world. We will examine the work of several contemporary sculptors who design work that is environmentally sensitive, including artists like Andy Goldsworthy and Lorna Jordan.

Basic fabrication skills, including simple welding, basic stone carving, and work with concrete and mosaics, will be taught. Each student will design and construct at least 2 sculptures for a specific outdoor site. The course will accommodate students of all skill levels.

Contact info:

Catherine Murray

423-439-5296

murrayc@etsu.edu

Summer Arts Program

2010-04-21T05:40:00.000-07:00

High School Students!

Please join us this summer for an exciting opportunity to learn, explore, and create ART in art studios and facilities at East Tennessee State University!

From June 21- July 23, 2010 Summer Arts for High School Students at ETSU offers students from grades 9-12 the opportunity to explore various art forms in depth. Students of all experience levels are invited to participate; instruction will be individualized and geared towards the student’s level.

Each one-week session consists of a 3 hour morning class, a break for lunch, and a 3 hour afternoon class. Each day will end with a recreational session at the Center for Physical Activity at ETSU. Classes will change each week.

Students can explore diverse offerings including Jewelry/Metals; Printmaking; Green (environmentally friendly) Art; various kinds of sculpture; mixed media painting; digital photography; hand building in clay; and animation with Photoshop.

All classes will be taught by experienced artists, by either ETSU Department of Art and Design graduate students or instructors.

Materials for all classes will be provided, although students taking digital photography must provide a digital camera. Students should dress casually and should bring an old work shirt to throw on, in case you will be using messy materials!

At the end of the summer session, all students will have artwork included in an exhibition in Slocumb Galleries, in Ball Hall, the home of the Department of Art and Design at ETSU.

For registration information, please contact the Office of Professional Development at ETSU, 423-439-8084. For information about specific classes, please contact the Department of Art and Design at ETSU, 423-439-4247.

Please register early, as class sizes are limited!

Visiting Artist

2010-04-19T05:44:00.000-07:00

Visiting Artist - ROSCOE WILSON

In celebration of Earth Day the Dept of Art & Design and
The Student Sculpture Society welcomes to ETSU campus

Sculpture / Painter / Installation Artist
Roscoe Wilson

Art Installation at Sherrod Library Mall : April 21 – 23

Public Artist Lecture : Thursday, April 22 / 4:00 – 5:00pm
Ball Hall (Lecture Hall) room 127

Since 2005, Roscoe has been included in over 30 National and International Juried Exhibitions and 9 solo exhibitions; including the Urban Institute for Contemporary Art in Grand Rapids MI, the Propeller Centre in Toronto Canada, the Ronnebaeksholm Arts & Culture Centre in Denmark, as well as many others. Most recently he has been awarded a grant from the Puffin Foundation Inc.

Roscoe received his B.A. (1997) from Wabash College in Indiana, a M.A. (1999) from Purdue University in West Lafayette Indiana, and a M.F.A (2002) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. While at UW-Madison he was able to study the history of environmentalism and drew inspiration for his artwork from former Wisconsin residents and environmental pioneers like John Muir and Aldo Leopold. Roscoe currently teaches as an Associate Professor of Art at Miami University Hamilton in Ohio where he now resides.

Supported and sponsored by the SGA and Student Sculpture Society.

2009 Addy Awards

2010-04-07T08:02:00.000-07:00

C.P.D.F.C Project Reception

2010-03-04T10:05:00.000-08:00

The students of Stacy Isenbarger's and Jackson Martin's Three Dimensional Design classes are hosting a Reception for the C.P.D.F.C. Project-- that's short for Complex Planes into Dynamic Forms Collaborative-- on Wednesday, March 17th, 2010 in the Ballroom of ETSU's Culp Center. Please come join us for this one night only event.

You can follow the students progress and see their creations here.

Projections: Art with Computer Blog Site

2010-03-04T09:25:00.000-08:00

Check out ETSU's Spring 2010 Art with Computer Class Blog site. Here you'll find the inspiration/residue of our daily dealings and links to each class member's unique artist's blog-site. We're happy to hear any feedback or other inspiration you'd like to add as we tackle a semester of academia improvisation using the computer as a tool towards making fine art.

ETSU Projections: Art with Computer Blog

Graduate Show

2010-02-11T12:45:00.000-08:00

Jackson Martin

2010-02-11T08:48:00.000-08:00

News from Jackson Martin:

I just returned from Key West, FL after installing my site-specific sculpture for Sculpture Key West 2010. With the help of two amazing ETSU students, Cody Necessary and Evan Townsend, we were able to construct The Redemptive Quality of Life. To view the sculpture, go to http://www.jacksonmartin.com/RQL.php You can also access the Audio Tour and listen to a short, pre-recorded description of the sculpture by calling 305-434-8320 and entering artist #1.

Fellow colleague Travis Graves and I will be installing a site-specific installation titled Time and Disregard in the InSpace Gallery at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts in Grand Rapids, MI. The show opens February 5th and runs through March 5th. For further details, view the attached show card and visit, http://www.uica.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=page.viewpage&pageid=688

I will also be involved in an exhibition that focuses on sustainability and the environment, titled The Earth is Flat and Other Truths about the Environment at the Park School in Baltimore, MD. The show opens February 11 and runs through March 31. My sculpture will be installed on the campus pond. For more information visit, http://www.parkschool.net/arts/

Faculty News

2009-09-22T07:51:00.000-07:00

Our department faculty have had a very busy summer. Here are some of the recent accomplishments.

Professor Mike Smith will have an upcoming exhibition of photographs at the University of Kentucky Art Museum, November, 2009. His work was recently reviewed by the curator of photographs at the High Museum for inclusion in an exhibition there.

Professor Don Davis was included in the exhibition, “The Sanctuary of the Etruscan Artisans at Cetamura Del Chianti: The Legacy of Alvaro Tracchi,” June 13-July 12, 2009 at Casa Masaccio Museum in San Giovanni Valdarno, Italy. The exhibition, including his kiln model is now on long-term display in Badia a Coltibuono, Italy near the Cetamura archaeological site. The project was supported by an ETSU Summer Research Fellowship in Arts and Sciences and an ETSU Research Development Committee Grant.

Professor Davis is included in the exhibition SOUTHEAST:CERAMICS Invitational Exhibition, McMaster Gallery, University of South Carolina, October 12th - November 19th, 2009 and will serve on an artist panel discussion which accompanies the show.

Professor Catherine Murray will be exhibiting new sculpture and mixed media drawings in a one person exhibition at Sechrest Gallery, High Point University, High Point, NC, from Nov. 3- Dec. 15, 2009.

Professor Murray will also have work in the exhibition “From These Hills 2009: Contemporary Art in the Appalachian Highlands”, at the William King Museum, Abingdon, VA. This biennial exhibition was curated by Ray Kass, Professor Emeritius, VA Tech and will be on display Oct. 22, 2009- Feb. 14, 2010.

One of her outdoor pieces was selected for the Kingsport Sculpture Walk, 2009-10, Kingsport, TN, curated by Hank Foreman, Director of the Turchin Center for the Visual Arts, Appalachian State University. Another outdoor piece was chosen for “Expositions in Glass: Outdoor Sculpture 2009”, Courthouse Galleries at the Portsmouth Museums, Portsmouth, VA. , a year long show which runs through Oct. 11, 2009.

Associate Professor Mira Gerard received a fellowship for a month-long residency in August, 2009 at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont.

Professor Gerard exhibited in Second Life in three separate venues:

1. "Brooklyn Is Watching" Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, NY & SLurl: Impermanence 100/200/20

. Curator for BIW is Jay Van Buren. http://brooklyniswatching.com/

2. July 2009

Juried Group Exhibition

"Soleil", AG3 Gallery ,Juried by White Lebed, Curator.

SLurl: Angelgate 103, 131, 65

3. March-May 2009

"The Lost Princesses"

Solo Exhibition (invitational)

gallery director/curator: Kallie Berman

DVI gallery

SLurl: Da Vinci Isle 32, 192, 29

Associate Professor Pat Mink had a piece, "Appalachian Landscape II", exhibited in Quilt National 2009 in Athens, OH , May- September, 2009.

Her piece "Farm History II" was included in the exhibition "ARTQUILTransitions" in Allenton and Semans Galleries at the Durham Arts Council, Durham, NC, at the Page-Walker Arts & History Center, Cary, NC, and will be on display at the Fayetteville Museum of Art from September 12 - November 3, 2009.

"Farm Ghost I" & "Farm Ghost II" continue in the international exhibition "Inspired Design Creative Entrepreneurial Textiles" and will be on display at the Gregg Museum at NCSU in Raleigh, NC during the months of Sept & Oct. As part of this exhibition she will participate in a panel discussion on Jacquard Weaving, and give a presentation of her work.

"#21 Revisited" will travel in the exhibition "Soul's Journey" to the Art Museum in Myrtle Beach, SC from Oct. 15th through Jan. 10th. This exhibition is in conjunction with the upcoming PBS documentary "SOUL'S

JOURNEY: INSIDE THE CREATIVE PROCESS", in which Pat Mink was also a participant.

Professor Mink received the Arts and Sciences Summer Research Fellowship for her proposal "Expanding the Digital Quilt: Combining Digital Weave Structures with Digital Printing". She spent the month of June weaving personal imagery into cloth on industrial Jacquard power looms at the Oriole Mill in Hendersonville, NC.

She also received a RDC grant in April for her proposal "Digital Cloth:

The Power Loom as a Tool for Contemporary Fiberart".

Assistant Professor Travis Graves was the exhibit “Magnitude SEVEN” at the Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, in June 2009.

He had a solo show titled “When Enough is Enough” at the Brunswick Street Gallery in Fitzroy, Australia, in July, 2009.

Also in July he participated in the “Three-Minute Film Festival “ at Root Division in San Francisco, CA.

Professor Graves is currently in an online exhibit through Iowa State University called “30 and Beyond”.

He will also have work in the exhibition “From These Hills 2009: Contemporary Art in the Appalachian Highlands”, at the William King Museum, Abingdon, VA. This biennial exhibition was curated by Ray Kass, Professor Emeritius, VA Tech and will be on display Oct. 22, 2009- Feb. 14, 2010.

Professor Graves was awarded a RDC Grant this past May.

Visiting Assistant Professor Stacey Isenbarger had a solo show: "Source Derivations: Recent Sculptural Works by Stacy Isenbarger” , at the Rebecca Randall Bryan Gallery, Coastal Carolina University, July – August, 2009. www.coastal.edu/bryanartgallery

Visiting Assistant Professor Anna Kell was invited to participate in Accessibility 2009, an artist's residency in Cleveland, Tennessee. 8 artists will be in residence at Cleveland State Community College making new works out of re-used materials found in the area.

Instructor and Art Annex Technician Jackson Martin installed his sculpture, "Rooted" for the Baltimore Sculpture Project, which will be on view until May 2010.

Martin is currently in an exhibition at the Ewing Gallery on the campus of UT Knoxville titled "Objects on the Horizon". The show runs from Aug 17-Oct 4 with a closing reception and artist talk Oct 4, 1-4pm.

Summer Updates

2009-08-13T16:09:00.000-07:00

• Mira Gerard, Associate Professor, Painting, did a residency at the Vermont Studio Center.
• Don Davis, Associate Professor, Ceramics, received an ETSU summer research grant to study Etruscan kilns in Italy.
• Pat Mink, Associate Professor, Fibers, received an ETSU summer research grant to work on digital printing at the Jacquard Center in NC.
• Ty LaRue, recent BFA, received a scholarship to Penland to take a 2 week class.

Visiting Faculty

2009-08-08T18:52:00.000-07:00

The department is pleased to welcome three new visiting artists for the 2009-2010 year. They are Anna Kell, Stacy Isenbarger, and Jackson Martin. All three will be teaching Foundations and Jackson will also be found in the Art Annex in the new position of Studio Tech.

Signature Artist

2009-08-08T04:52:00.000-07:00

Val Lyle (MFA 2001) was just named the 2009 Signature Artist for the Virginia Highlands Festival. She has a piece up currently in Bristol VA and one at the William King Regional Art Center if you have a chance to check them out. Congrats Val!

Travis Graves and Jackson Martin: spctclr vws.

2009-05-28T09:36:00.000-07:00

Full time faculty member Travis Graves and adjunct faculty member Jackson Martin just returned from New York after installing their collaborative installation at One Brooklyn Bridge Park. The runs until June 15th, 2009. Their piece generated some great response and the show was written about in the New York Times here.

Giant Salt-Fired Pot Donation

2009-05-23T12:04:00.000-07:00

This past spring semester, the Art Department was lucky to receive a donation by Valley Equipment Company of a rare giant salt-fired jar circa 1929. It is now located in front of the Art Annex. Swing by and check it out when you get a chance.
Read more about it here.

Mockingbird 2009

2009-05-21T11:09:00.003-07:00

The 2009 Mockingbird Awards were announced Thursday, May 7, 2009. Congratulations to art award winners David Mazure, Nicole Osborne, Reese Chamness, and Hailey Eaton. Thank you to Fletcher Dyer, Jason Corn, Jason Barnes, Wayne Dyer, and Lisa M. Jones for all your hard work designing and producing the magazine.

Scholarship Opportunity

2009-05-21T11:09:00.001-07:00

Please note that there are a number of Public Performance Program Scholarships still available. If you are an out-of-state Art and Design student, please complete an application and submit it to Travis Graves.

Summer 2009 Class Offering

2009-05-21T11:08:00.001-07:00

Women Artists & Their Art: Online
Summer Session I: June 8- July 10
Flyer with FAQs