Some installation images of the terrific new installation by Kathryn Armstrong in Hammes Gallery entitled “Somewhere Else”…come out to the opening this Friday, October 7th from 5-7pm and meet the artists!!
Industrial Reconstructions and more more more Installation!!!
September 27, 2011 – 3:14 am
Industrial Reconstructions, Marilyn Propp
OPENING SOON!
“Industrial Reconstructions”
A dynamic and compelling two-person exhibition featuring the husband-wife artist team of Marilyn Propp and David Jones, in Sister Rosaire and Little Theatre Galleries.
Our installation series in Hammes Gallery continues with a new immersive environment by Indiana-based artist Kathryn Armstrong.
Exhibition runs September 30-November 4, 2011.
Reception: Friday, October 7th from 5-7pm. Lecture by Marilyn Propp and David Jones at 6:00pm!
Industrial Constructions, David Jones
Shiny, happy places part two:)
August 19, 2011 – 1:05 pm
Here’s a video walkthrough of Beth Reitmeyer’s installation “A Room for Inspiration” in Hammes Gallery…also included in this post are images from Jim Hopfensperger’s solo exhibition and the SISTAR-funded Katie Fisher/Krista Hoefle collaborative project, Unknown Atomic in Little Theatre and Sister Rosaire Galleries. Exhibitions run now through September 16th…come meet the artists on Friday, September 9th from 5-7pm at the artists reception!
The exquisite and amazing craftsmanship of Jim Hopfensperger
Jim Hopfensperger's amazing furniture pieces!
Katie Fisher's project for Unknown Atomic
Krista Hoefle's project for Unknown Atomic
Shiny Happy Places!
August 12, 2011 – 8:59 am
Welcome back!! The exhibition season kicks off to an awesome start with three new shows that open Monday, August 15th and run through September 16th….
Detail shot, "Room for Inspiration" installation by Beth Reitmeyer
In Hammes Gallery, artist Beth Reitmeyer will be exhibiting her latest installation entitled Room for Inspiration. Beth’s immersive and interactive environments are a collision of Technicolor materials and patterns; shiny, happy spaces that completely engulf the viewer in order to “stir memories and create new ones.”
Jim Hopfensperger’s functional/sculptural works investigate new prospects for understanding handmade objects. His solo exhibition in Little Theatre Gallery presents a series of functional objects fabricated from exquisite materials–exotic hardwoods and gold leaf, for example–that provide a means of searching out possibilities and questions with regard to the handmade object.
Object from Katie Fisher's (Class of 2012) installation for "Unknown Atomic"
Sister Rosaire Gallery will feature the two-woman SISTAR project by Katie Fisher (Class of 2012) and Professor Krista Hoefle (Dept. of Art) entitled Unknown Atomic. Working as a two-woman printmaking/sculpture-fabricating duo, Fisher and Hoefle created independent bodies of work investigating historical and pop cultural instances of science gone awry.
The Aesthetics of War and Reconciliation
January 13, 2011 – 5:28 am
The Moreau Art Galleries, Department of Art and Department of Psychology present:
The Aesthetics of War and Reconciliation
co-curated by Professors Bettina Spencer and Krista Hoefle
Exhibition dates: January 28-February 25, 2011
“This exhibition is a contemporary examination of the aesthetics of war and reconciliation and it came about out of a shared interest in politically-based artworks that utilize different strategies of representation. The viewer can draw her or his interpretation of modern warfare from fragmented/open ended images. The exhibition and related programming investigates how artists and scholars translate traumatic events as much as it is about the events themselves.”
Featuring artworks in a wide variety of medias by:
Donald Cameron
Mary Strebinger
Shannon Benine
Dorothy Schultz
Dan Mills
Susanne Slavick
Paul Kuharic
Joseph DeLappe
Exhibition and events co-sponsored by: Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies (ND), Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership, Department of Art, Department of Psychology, Justice Education, Women’s Studies, Department of Sociology, Intercultural Studies at Saint Mary’s College.
ADDITIONAL EVENTS AND PROGRAMMING:
Thursday, February 3rd, 1pm in Vander Vennet Theatre (Student Center): New Media artist and Department of Art Visiting Artist Joseph DeLappe will present a public lecture about his exhibited project “dead-in-Iraq” among other works.
Joseph DeLappe is an Associate Professor of the Department of Art at the University of Nevada where he runs the Digital Media Program. Working with electronic and new media since 1983, his work in online gaming performance, electromechanical installation and real-time web-based video transmission have been shown throughout the United States and abroad. His works have been included in Art in America, Wired.com, Salon.com, The New York Times, and featured on CNN domestic and international, NPR (National Public Radio), CBC (Canadian Broadcast Company), and The Sydney Morning Herald. DeLappe will be working with students enrolled in Professor Krista Hoefle’s Art366: Cyberfeminism and Advanced New Media Practices on a new media project.
Friday, February 4th from 5-7pm in Moreau Art Galleries: Artist Reception for “The Aesthetics of War and Reconciliation.” Come meet the curators and artists who participated in this collaborative exhibition.
Friday, February 4th at 6pm in Little Theatre Auditorium: Lecture by Dr. Linda Tropp, Associate Professor of Psychology and Director of the Psychology of Peace and Violence Program at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Dr. Tropp’s research concerns how members of different groups approach and experience contact with each other, and how group differences in power or status affect views of and expectations for cross-group relations. She also studies how group memberships can be important aspects of the self, and how individuals’ identities as group members can influence their feelings about themselves, their groups, their social experiences, and their feelings toward members of other groups. She received the Allport Intergroup Relations Prize from the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues for her research on intergroup contact, the Erik Erikson Early Career Award for distinguished research contributions from the International Society of Political Psychology, and the McKeachie Early Career Teaching Award from the Society for the Teaching of Psychology.
Dr. Tropp is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association, the Society of Experimental Social Psychology, and the Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues, and she currently serves on the editorial boards of Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin and Group Processes and Intergroup Relations.
Admission to all events is free and open to the public.
Also on display in the Cushwa-Leighton Library, and in conjunction with “The Aesthetics of War and Reconciliation” exhibition:
Twenty panels of the Peace Ribbon sponsored by CODEPINK: WOMEN FOR PEACE are currently displayed in the Cushwa-Leighton Library at Saint Mary’s College (Notre Dame, Indiana).
The exhibit is currently on display through March 11, 2011, and can be viewed during regular library hours. A series of programs is being scheduled in connection with the exhibit.
For more information, contact: Bob Hohl, Cushwa-Leighton Library, 574-284-5287.
rhohl@saintmarys.edu
INFORMATION ABOUT CODEPINK AND THE PEACE RIBBON PROJECT:
CODEPINK: http://www.codepink4peace.org/
CODEPINK is a women-initiated grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, stop new wars, and redirect our resources into healthcare, education, green jobs and other life-affirming activities.
The name CODEPINK plays on the Bush Administration’s color-coded homeland security alerts - yellow, orange, red - that signaled terrorist threats. While Bush’s color-coded alerts were based on fear and used to justify violence, the CODEPINK Alert is a feisty call for women and men to “wage peace.”
CODEPINK rejects foreign policies based on domination and aggression, and instead calls for policies based on diplomacy, compassion and a commitment to international law. With an emphasis on joy and humor, CODEPINK women and men seek to activate, amplify and inspire a community of peacemakers through creative campaigns and a commitment to non-violence.
Senior Comprehensive Exhibitions to open this Friday, 12/3!
November 29, 2010 – 9:56 am
Please join the Department of Art for two great Senior Comprehensive Exhibitions opening this Friday, Dec. 3, 2010! Featuring projects by Kathleen Burns-Wick and Christina Rising.
“Picturing Paradise” & Gail Skudera opening this Friday (10/1)!
September 28, 2010 – 8:36 am
Detail view, “Violence in the Jungle” from “Picturing Paradise” (Sister Rosaire + Little Theatre Galleries)
Please join the Department of Art, Moreau Art Galleries, and Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership for the opening of two fantastic new exhibitions:
“Picturing Paradise: Cuadros by the Peruvian Women of the Pamplona Alta as Visions of Hope” in Little Theatre and Sister Rosaire Galleries
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A solo show of mixed media woven works by Gail Skudera in Hammes Gallery
Opening reception is Friday, October 1 from 5-7pm.
Rebecca Berru Davis will give a short presentation on her cuadros project with women of Compacto Humano and Manos Ancashinas–two art cooperatives located in Pamplona Alta on the outskirts of Lima, Peru–at 5pm in Moreau 232.
For more information visit MoreauCenter.com
Installation view, “Picturing Paradise” curated by Rebecca Davis (Sister Rosaire + Little Theatre Galleries)
Installation view, Gail Skudera (Hammes Gallery)
Detail, “Every Child 2” by Gail Skudera (Hammes Gallery). Woven mixed media
Detail, “Buffalo Girl 1 & 3” by Gail Skudera (Hammes Gallery). Woven mixed media
Gail Skudera and “Picturing Paradise” to open soon!
September 21, 2010 – 12:37 pm
Gail Skudera’s “Mistletoe” (2008) 5-1/2″ x 4″ mixed media with beads-woven
The Moreau Art Galleries and the Department of Art (Saint Mary’s College) announces the opening of two exhibitions running from September 30 – November 5, 2010: “Picturing Paradise”—a group exhibition curated by Rebecca Berru Davis and a solo exhibition by artist Gail Skudera.
In conjunction with the Center for Women’s Intercultural Leadership Conference “Women as Intercultural Leaders: Imagination, Innovation and Integrity” (September 20-October 2, 2010), the Moreau Art Galleries presents “Picturing Paradise: Cuadros by the Peruvian Women of the Pamplona Alta as Visions of Hope,” an exhibition featuring embroidered and appliquéd fabric pictures called cuadros, created by the women of Compacto Humano and Manos Ancashinas, two art cooperatives located in Pamplona Alta, situated on the outskirts of Lima, Peru. Curated by Rebecca Berru Davis, and on display in both the Sister Rosaire and Little Theatre Galleries.
Curator Rebecca Berru Davis is in her third year of theological studies in the area of Art and Religion at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, California. Rebecca is interested in the intersection of art, faith, and justice as a way to understand the spiritual and religious expressions of those located on the margins of society.
Hammes Gallery will feature the work of Gail Skudera, an award winning artist who has exhibited widely throughout the Midwest and eastern US with shows in Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and many other cities. Venues have included Sybil Larney Gallery (Chicago), MoMing Gallery (Chicago), Roberson Museum, State Museum of Harrisburg, Lancaster Museum of Art, Munson Williams Proctor Museum of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, Columbia College, Northern Illinois University, along with exhibits at Out of the Blue Gallery in Lewisburg; a gallery she helped establish.
She combines painting, drawing, and photographic transfers primarily through a weaving process. The mixed media works often focus on portraits, or the human figure in various environments. There is often more than one image, plus a pattern created by weaving, along with other mixed media processes. The end result is a complex multi-layered work of art that is as much about process as it is about the content of the image(s).
Both exhibitions run September 30-November 5, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, October 1, 2010 from 5-7pm
Artist holding her cuadro, from “Picturing Paradise” group exhibition, curated by Rebecca Berru Davis
The Moreau Art Galleries are located in the Moreau Center for the Arts on the Saint Mary’s College campus. All events are free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are 10am-4pm, Monday through Friday. Closed campus holidays. For more information, visit: MoreauCenter.com
Artist Reception for Ginter, Sayre, & Miller!
September 5, 2010 – 1:08 pm
Artist Reception for Ginter, Sayre, and Miller solo exhibitions, 9/5/10
Artist Reception for Ginter, Sayre, and Miller solo exhibitions, 9/5/10
Students discuss work by Patti Sayre
The first artist reception for the Moreau Art Galleries was a rousing success! Check back for info. on the upcoming Coffee+Donuts+Art event in mid-September if you missed Sunday’s reception:)
Sandra Ginter, Patti Sayre, and Liz Miller shows open!
August 25, 2010 – 7:57 am
The Moreau Art Galleries and the Department of Art (Saint Mary’s College) announces the opening of three solo exhibitions running from August 16-September 17, 2010
Professors Sandra Ginter and Patti Sayre will debut new work created during their recent sabbatical leaves from Saint Mary’s College. “Existence” by Sandra Ginter explores installation in conjunction with ceramics in Hammes Gallery; “Losing Face” by Patti Sayre investigates contemporary portraiture through drawing, printmaking and book arts in Little Theatre Gallery. Inspired by systems that contain examples of simultaneous order and chaos, Minnesota-based artist Liz Miller’s installations and works on paper reference biology, natural disasters, and computer imagery. For her solo exhibition in Sister Rosaire, Miller presents a series of works on paper titled “Exponential Growth.”
ARTIST RECEPTION: SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 5 FROM 2-4PM.
The Moreau Art Galleries are located in the Moreau Center for the Arts on the Saint Mary’s College campus. All events are free and open to the public.
Gallery hours are 10am-4pm, Monday through Friday. Closed campus holidays.
Installation shot, Liz Miller's "Exponential Growth"
Liz Miller's "Exponential Growth: New Works on Paper"
Liz Miller's "Exponential Growth: New Works on Paper"
"Losing Face" by Patti Sayre
"Losing Face" by Patti Sayre
"Losing Face" by Patti Sayre
"Existence" by Sandra Ginter
"Existence" by Sandra Ginter
detail video projection on ceramic sculpture, "Existence" by Sandra Ginter
