RESOURCE • RETURN • RECYCLE — Call for Entries

University of Minnesota libraries and Department of Art through The Art in the Libraries Exhibition Program is calling out to students, faculty and staff artists for their RESOURCE • RETURN • RECYCLE show to be held March 9, 2010 – May 5, 2011, exhibiting in Wilson Library and the Music Library in Ferguson Hall.

We ask artists to consider our theme RESOURCE • RETURN • RECYCLE as questions, factors, and implications to be interpreted both literally and conceptually. We are looking for a broad range of work that interacts with these ideas. It becomes relevant to us as artists as we consider the condition, process and cycle, which establish the identity of our work.

FIRST CALL • JAN 24^th • DEADLINE: to submit your interest in exhibiting work by any of the following:

·      schedule a studio visit to discuss works in progress for exhibition

·      submit an image of a completed work that qualifies for exhibition theme

·      submit proposal for new work for the exhibition

PLEASE SUBMIT INTEREST TO: artex@umn.edu by Jan 24^th, 2010.

Call for Minnesota Artists!

CALL FOR MINNESOTA ARTISTS

Living Green Expo – Art Exhibition, State Fairgrounds Fine Arts Building

May 7-8, 2011

The 2011 Living Green Expo is issuing a statewide call for artists.

TITLE- Art as a Gateway for Community Engagement: Sustaining Nature and Culture

Kate Casanova “Spoils” @ The Gallery at (Le) Poisson Rouge

The Gallery at (Le) Poisson Rouge presents

KATE CASANOVA: “Spoils”

Opening Reception | Tuesday – 1.18.11

6pm-8pm artist reception w/ complimentary beverages & hors d’œuvre

8pm-12am celebration feat. DJ SHIN & surprise interactive elements

158 Bleecker Street | New York, NY 10012

www.katecasanova.com | RSVP: spoilsvip@gmail.com

Laura Stack Solo Show @ Concordia Art Center

Laura Stack’s (UofM adjunct and artist) 2nd solo show this year will be at Concordia Art Center at Concordia College in St. Paul.

Reception: Thursday, January 27 from 5:00-7:00pm

Gallery Talk: 7:00pm at the reception

This show features her new large-scale (60″ x 40″) mixed media work on paper from the “Float” Series.

David Bowen: Deep Sweep at the Klein Gallery

David Bowen’s work will be featured in a one-person exhibition at Esther Klein Gallery in Philadelphia, January 14th through March 20th. Data Sweep launches the Esther Klein Gallery (EKG) 2011 season with an exhibition of recent works by artist, David Bowen. Bowen’s creations operate at the intersection of contemporary art, design, science and technology. His work, described in Art in America as taking an “absurdist approach to the translation of scientific technology into art,” creates a dynamic symbiosis between technology and the natural world. Data Sweep focuses on outcomes that occur when machines interact with the natural world. Mirco-controllers embedded in Bowen’s hybrid systems translate the activity of natural agents, like plants or live data feeds from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy stations on ocean surface into mechanical motion that animates, instigates and automates his art.  Complex autonomous systems are set in motion and create drawings, movements and compositions based on their interaction with the space and time they occupy. The works in Data Sweep play both the roles of observer and creator, providing limited and mechanical perspectives of dynamic situations and living objects.

*In 2010 the University City Science Center launched Breadboard, a new program that administrates EKG as one component of our larger mission to explore intersections between art, design, science and technology. Breadboard grew out of 30+ years of EKG operations and is an extension of its rich program history that includes noted exhibits with R. Buckminster Fuller (1980 & 1983) who held an honorary title of World Resident and Scholar at the Science Center from 1973-1983. To find out more about Breadboard and our public programs please visit our website at www.breadboardphilly.org

UMN Art Alumni, Stacey Holloway wins Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship

Herron’s Holloway Joins the Ranks of Efroymson Fellows

Stacey Holloway has become the latest artist from Herron School of Art and Design to compete for and win an Efroymson Contemporary Arts Fellowship.

Holloway, a sculptor with “…an intense pride of the Midwest,” will use the $20,000 prize to chase her muse through the heartland next year, soaking up unique offerings such as Wisconsin’s The House on the Rock, Kentucky’s Creation Museum and the World’s Largest Ball of Twine in Kansas.

Holloway, who hails from South Bend, completed her B.F.A. degree in sculpture with a minor in art history at Herron in 2006 and an M.F.A. degree in sculpture at the University of Minnesota in 2009. She’s the sculpture technician at Herron, running metal pours, maintaining the metal shops and equipment, overseeing work study students and purchasing for the department. “We have an amazing foundry and metal shop,” Holloway said of Herron’s facilities.

Boyton Art Collection 2011

Brenda Litman, “Garden of Life #1,” 2008, ink, watercolor, acrylic

Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Brenda Litman and I want to share with you the news that we have work reproduced in the new University of Minnesota Boynton Health Services 14-month calendar for 2011.  It was created and produced from works by U of M faculty, staff, and alums in the Boynton Art Collection under the direction of Dr. Gary Christenson and his staff.  Brenda and I are friends of long standing, both WARM artists, and former U of M colleagues and alumna.  WARM founding member and Department of Art Associate Professor Joyce Lyon also has a work reproduced in the calendar, as well as one of the Women and Water Rights Project founders, Department of Art Professor Diane Katsiaficas.  10 other U of M artists, all of whom have contributed to our art and healthcare community, also have their work reproduced in the distinctive calendar.

Sculpture Studios at the Regis Center for Art

WEB SPECIAL, January/February 2011

Sculpture Studios at the Regis Center for Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis By Mason Riddle

In August 2003, the University of Minnesota’s Department of Art traded in the ridiculous for the sublime. In mass exodus, it moved from a very old, structurally abysmal and environmentally unsafe building to a new, custom-designed 155,000-square-foot complex, the Regis Center for Art. The Regis, actually two-buildings connected by an enclosed and elevated curved skyway, is sleek and stylish in a no-frills functional way. Seven years later, it garners high marks from students, faculty and the public. James H. Wasley, AIA, LEED-AP, who is a professor of architecture at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, calls the Regis “exceptional,” a response determined after conducting extensive research on green academic buildings for a future Art Department facility at UW- Madison. According to Wasley, the Regis exemplifies one of two art building-types currently favored. “The Regis is a workshop space, organized around extensive program requirements such as the wood and metal shops, ceramics kilns and foundry. The emphasis is on clear and direct materials handling, facilitated by single or two-story construction,” he explains. “The second type is exemplified by the new Yale Sculpture building by Kieran Timberlake, a classic loft space – a multi-story building with ample daylight, great flexibility and little dictating specific uses.” Wasley notes, “each type reflects a certain type of art program, and neither are pure, of course. As I understand their differences, Yale supports a small cohort of graduate students in their independent work, while Regis supports a large undergraduate curriculum focusing on manual training in addition to grad students.”

Groveland Gallery – Presence

University of Minnesota Active Minds Call For Art Entry for Reflections: Healing Eating Disorders Through Art

DEADLINE FOR ENTRY EXTENDED : JANUARY 28, 2011.

Sarah Christianson
M.F.A., University of Minnesota, 2009
Barn, Christianson Farm (Cummings, ND), 2007
Gelatin Silver Print

 

Call for entry details (PDF)