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Noted Graphic Designer, Kit Hinrichs, to Speak on February 14 at 5 pm

February 11, 2013 – 7:49 am

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The Department of Art and The Center of Excellence for the Creative Arts is pleased to welcome Kit Hinrichs to APSU to give a public lecture on February 14 at 5 pm in Trahern 401.

Kit Hinrichs founded Studio Hinrichs in October 2009, following 23 years as a partner of the international design firm, Pentagram. Prior to that, he was a partner in the design consultancy Jonson, Pedersen, Hinrichs & Shakery. Over the past few decades, Kit has been an influential force in graphic design. Included among the hundreds of projects that he has design directed are the California Academy of Sciences graphic identity program, Sony Metreon Entertainment Complex identity and interior graphics, United Airlines’ Hemispheres magazine, Design Within Reach identity and catalog, and countless annual report, corporate identity, packaging, exhibition, editorial, and promotional campaign programs. He is also the co-founder and design director of @Issue: Journal of Business and Design, which is now an online magablog — atissuejournal.com.

Kit has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York, the California College of the Arts, and the Academy of Art in San Francisco. His work has been honored and widely published internationally, and several of his pieces are part of the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and the Smithsonian Institution’s Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Design. Kit is also the co-author of several books and a much sought-after guest speaker on design. An avid collector of Stars & Stripes memorabilia, his collection of over 3,000 objects has been exhibited across the country and in Japan, and presented in the book Long May She Wave(published by Ten Speed Press, 2001).

Kit is a recipient of the prestigious AIGA medal in recognition of his exceptional achievements in the field of graphic design and visual communication. He is a past executive board member of the American Institute of Graphic Arts, a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale, and has been an Art Center College of Design trustee since 1996.

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Internationally Renowned Artist, Alfredo Jaar, to Speak Wednesday November 7 at 5 pm

November 5, 2012 – 8:07 am

The lecture will be held in Trahern 401 and is free and open to the public.

 

Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979), and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, films, and community-based projects, Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and the limitations of art to represent events such as genocides, epidemics, and famines. Jaar’s work bears witness to military conflicts, political corruption, and imbalances of power between industrialized and developing nations. Subjects addressed in his work include the holocaust in Rwanda, gold mining in Brazil, toxic pollution in Nigeria, and issues related to the border between Mexico and the United States. Many of Jaar’s works are extended meditations or elegies, including Muxima (2006), a video that portrays and contrasts the oil economy and extreme poverty of Angola, and “The Gramsci Trilogy” (2004–05), a series of installations dedicated to the Italian philosopher Antonio Gramsci, who was imprisoned under Mussolini’s Fascist regime. Jaar has received many awards, including a John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Award (2000); a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (1987); and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts (1987); and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1985). He has had major exhibitions at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (2005); Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome (2005); Massachusetts Institute of Technology, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (1999); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (1992). Jaar emigrated from Chile in 1981, at the height of Pinochet’s military dictatorship. His exhibition at Fundación Telefonica in Chile, Santiago (2006), was his first in his native country in twenty-five years. Jaar lives and works in New York.

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Artist Jason Rogenes to Speak Tuesday September 11 at 5 pm

September 10, 2012 – 7:32 am

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Jason Rogenes has explored the possibilities of expanded polystyrene, better known as Styrofoam, for more than ten years. By working with discarded materials, Rogenes continues the long tradition of 20th century artists who challenged the notion that art-making requires precious or expensive materials. Rogenes is also motivated by environmental concerns, and hopes that viewers will acknowledge that the accumulation in his sculptures reflects only an infinitesimal percentage of the consumer packaging sent to landfills across the globe daily.

Rogenes received an MFA degree at the University of California, Santa Barbara and a BA from the University of California, San Diego. He also studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at the Pomona College Museum, at the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon, the Armory Center for the Arts in Pasadena, and at the Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition and group exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine; the Wilhelm Hack Museum / Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Germany; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York and the Whitney Museum at Altria in New York City.

While in residence at APSU, Rogenes will be creating a large scale sculpture in the Morgan University Center.

Jason Rogenes’s Website

Rogenes’s Project Page at APSU

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Artist Helen Hiebert to Give a Lecture and Workshop

March 9, 2012 – 2:28 pm

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Artist Spencer Finch To Give a Lecture on February 7

February 3, 2012 – 11:47 am

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Moon Dust (Apollo 17), 2009

Artist Spencer Finch will give a public lecture on his work on Tuesday, February 7 at 7pm in Trahern 401.

http://www.spencerfinch.com/

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Take Care: Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century Opens January 17th in the Trahern Gallery

January 12, 2012 – 9:19 am

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Adrienne Outlaw
Fecund Series Videos, 2007-09
Installation variable, each funnel 9in x 9in x 9.5in

In recent years, artist Adrienne Outlaw has experienced a growing sense of unease with the rapid advances being made in medical technology. Her apprehension is reflected in works such as her “Fecund Series,” which require viewers to gaze into breast-like funnels to see eerily quiet videos, such as in vivo imagery of a beating heart.

“For the first time in history, there is knowledge available to mothers which forces them to make life or death decisions whether to carry a disfigured, malformed or unintentional fetus to term, whether to use pharmaceuticals with their associated risks and whether to risk passing on genetic diseases,” Outlaw said. “In these situations, we are no longer able to rely on long-established religious, societal or medical expertise for guidance, and too often, we only grapple with such problems at the time of crisis.”

This month, Outlaw brings the traveling show, “TAKE CARE: Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-first Century,” to Austin Peay State University’s Trahern Gallery. The exhibition, which features sculpture, photography and video works by nine female artists, opens with a lecture at 5 p.m. on Jan. 17. A reception follows at 6 p.m. The show, which is free and open to the public, runs through Feb. 5.

The works included in the exhibit consider “…civilization’s unease with modern family planning, maternal and fetal care, childbirth and child rearing,” Outlaw writes in her curatorial statement.

“The TAKE CARE show highlights these bioethical dilemmas, with the hope that viewers will take the opportunity to better appreciate the complexity of these personal decisions in a rapidly changing world,” Outlaw said.

The artists featured in this exhibit include Outlaw, Annette Gates, Kristina Arnold, Sher Fick, Lindsay Obermeyer, Monica Bock, Sadie Ruben, Jeanette May and Libby Rowe. For more information on the show, contact Paul Collins, APSU assistant professor of art and Trahern Gallery director, at collinsp@apsu.edu.

Link for more info:
http://www.n-cap.org/take_care.html

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The Student Design Group Welcome Rusty Mitchell as a Speaker on Tuesday November 28 at 5:30

November 28, 2011 – 5:59 pm

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Rusty Mitchell, creative director at Mercury Intermedia in Nashville (and APSU alum), will be coming to Austin Peay as a guest speaker Tuesday, November 29th @ 5:30pm. The event will be held in Trahern 212. Mercury Intermeda is known for award winning design, development and platform solutions for iOS, android, and more. They have created apps for Showtime and USA Today.

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Net Artist Alan Bigelow’s Full Lecture on YouTube

October 16, 2011 – 2:48 pm

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Net Artist Alan Bigelow Presented a “Remote Lecture” to APSU New Media Students

October 13, 2011 – 12:51 pm

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Artist Alan Bigelow talked to APSU students about his work today via Skype. Bigelow is a “net artist”, an artist who makes work to specifically for the internet.

See Bigelow’s work here.

His lecture was sponsored by Terminal (APSU’s on-line space for net art) and the Center for Excellence in the Creative Arts.

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Department of Art Exhibition and Visiting Artist Schedule for 2011 – 2012

August 17, 2011 – 12:26 pm

Re-presentation New paintings by Wes Sherman
Sep 6 – 25, 2011 Trahern Gallery
7 pm, Tue, Sep 6, Trahern 401, Lecture by Wes Sherman
8 pm, Tue, Sep 6 Reception
Starting with a painting from history (e.g. painting by such artists as Corot, Daubigny, Inness, van Gogh, and many others), Sherman begins to abstract from it until he finds something new about color, space or paint. With his paintings he tries to pick paintings from history that will help him discover how history re-presents itself. Wes Sherman has been painting for 19 years and in that time has had 24 solo shows and has been include in numerous group shows.

Scale: Aesthetic Turbulence and the Search for Lifestyle Panacea
Curated by Ally Reeves
October 3-23 Trahern Gallery
7 pm, Mon, Oct 3, Trahern 401, Lecture by Ally Reeves
8 pm, Mon, Oct 3 Reception
Scale: invites a group of 7 artists and designers to disseminate innovations in the use of low cost, efficient, or highly durable approaches to making and living. Participants in Scale: will showcase models for work, play, and living that resist the impositions of paucity, revealing the exciting possibilities intrinsic to these protean times. In addition to the featured artists, wall space, a table and chair, and writing tools will be provided to allow visitors a space to post questions and ideas of their own. This segment of the exhibition will grow and change throughout the exhibition, highlighting the creativity and
diversity of concerns held by visitors to the gallery.

Spencer Finch
7 pm, Tue, Oct 25, 2011 Lecture Trahern 401
Spencer Finch, a New York artist, produces work in a wide variety of mediums, including watercolor, photography, glass, electronics, video and fluorescent lights. He is perhaps best known for dealing with the elusive concepts of memory and perception through light installations.

Homecoming Alumni Show
11am – 4 pm Sat, Oct 29, 2011 Trahern Gallery
This show features innovative and exciting works by emerging, mid-career, and established artists who are APSU Department of Art alumni.

The Urban Landscape
Curated by Warren Greene
Nov 7 – 23 Trahern Gallery
7 pm, Mon, Nov 7, Reception
The exhibit explores the visual experience of urban spaces through the medium of photography. Through the lenses of contemporary photographers, this assembly of work attempts to reinterpret and re-image the overlooked and often derided areas of our built environment.

Gerrit Westerveld
7 pm, Mon, Nov 21, 2011 Lecture Trahern 401
Dutch artist and designer Gerrit Westerveld runs his own publishing house Kleinnood & Grootzeer; publishing artist books, leporellos, and print portfolios. His work can be recognized by his application of primary colours and a simple, strong vocabulary of form. He has become known for his working closely with both regionally significant poets writing in dialect, and nationally renown poets he creates and publishes illuminated poetry bundles.

B.F.A. Senior Design Exhibition Opening, 7PM Monday, December 5, 2011
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: December 5-December 9

TAKE CARE: Biomedical Ethics in the Twenty-First Century
Jan 17 – Feb 5 Trahern Gallery
7 pm, Tue, Jan 17, Trahern 401, Lecture by Adrienne Outlaw
8 pm, Tue, Jan 17, Reception
This exhibition considers civilization’s unease with modern family planning, maternal and fetal care, childbirth and child rearing. Take Care highlights modern bioethical dilemmas with the hope that the viewers will take the opportunity to better appreciate the complexity of these personal decisions in a rapidly changing world.

John Yau
Tue 7 pm, Feb 7, 2012 Lecture Trahern 401
John Yau (born 1950) is an American poet and critic who lives in New York City. He received his B.A. from Bard College in 1972 and his M.F.A. from Brooklyn College in 1978. He has published over 50 books of poetry, artists’ books, fiction, and art criticism. He has been the Arts editor of The Brooklyn Rail since March 2004. He currently teaches art criticism at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers
University.

Propaganda Posters Opening, 7PM Monday, February 13, 2012
Curated by Suta Lee and Cindy Marsh
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: February 13-March 2
Tue, 7 pm, Feb 13, 2012 Reception Trahern Gallery
This show explores the art of propaganda from mid twentieth century from countries form Asia.

Helen Heibert
Tue, 7 pm, Mar 13, 2012 Lecture Trahern 401
“In Hiebert’s hands, paper becomes an alternately muscular and fragile material capable of enigma, mystery and beauty. She crafts small-scale works that suggest the influence of architecture and the landscape: radial patterns, hexagonal shapes, various undulating forms that resemble the waves of sand found in the endless desert”. DK Row, The Oregonian

44th Annual Student Art Exhibition Opening, 7PM Monday, March 26, 2012
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: March 26-April 15

B.F.A. Senior Design Exhibition Opening, 7PM Monday, April 23, 2012
Trahern Gallery Exhibit: April 23-April 27

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Well Known Book and Paper Artists Visit APSU This Week

April 18, 2011 – 5:49 am

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Beck Whitehead, the director of the Picante Press & Paper Studio @ the Southwest School of Arts & Crafts in San Antonio, will arrive Monday April 18th and leave on Friday April 22. Beck has taught papermaking, pulp painting, and bookarts workshops at number of prestigious venues such as PBI, Penland, and John C Campbell. She is also a founding member and on the Board of Directors for Papermaking Magazine.

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Wandering book artists Donna and Peter Thomas will stop by with their mobile Book Caravan on Wed, April 20th. Both groups share wide acclaim for their work. Peter and Donna Thomas live on the mid-coast in California. Their collaborative books are widely collected by museums and libraries. They have been awarded a number of travel grants and have published articles and books concerning contemporary papermaking in the Philippines and other emerging countries. They will be here working on April 20.

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Gregg Horowitz To Speak on January 31st at 7p.m.

January 24, 2011 – 12:08 pm

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The Authority of Art in the Contemporary Age

The authority of art, its ability to compel and convince, has always been linked to social and political authority, the ability to command. In only one brief period of the history of art-the modernist period-was there a concerted effort to break this link in the name of autonomous artistic authority. With the advent of the proliferation and circulation of digital images, however, the modernist period came to a definitive end and with it the ideal of autonomous artistic authority. The time is now ripe for a re-assessment of the authority of art in the contemporary age.

Gregg M. Horowitz is chair of the Institute’s Social Science and Cultural Studies Department at
Pratt Institute. Horowitz taught at Vanderbilt University from 1993 to 2010. His areas of
specialization include aesthetics and the philosophy of art history, critical theory of culture, and
philosophy and psychoanalysis. In 2008 Horowitz was awarded Berlin Prize, Berthold Leibinger
Fellowship, American Academy in Berlin, 2008 and the Award for Excellence in Graduate
Teaching, Vanderbilt University.

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APSU Welcomes Yael Kanarek for a lecture on November 22

November 18, 2010 – 4:05 am

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The new media artist Yael Kanarek spent much of her childhood in Israel, where she witnessed first hand the challenges and conflicts that arise from a multicultural and multi-lingual society. In that ancient land, ambiguous and contradictory narratives violently divided and sometimes bond people together.

Her experiences in Israel went on to inform her works of art, which, according to her website, “nurse the philosophical boundaries of the political and spiritual; artistic and scientific, private and universal; horizontal and vertical.” She has exhibited her work internationally, including at the prestigious 2002 Whitney Biennial in New York City.
At 7 p.m. on Nov. 22, Kanarek will visit Austin Peay State University to talk about New Media art as part of the Center of Excellence for Creative Arts’ Lecture Series. The talk, in room 401 of the Trahern Building, is free and open to the public.

Kanarek has received widespread acclaim for her pieces that incorporate her childhood memories of Israel with her observations of the Internet as “a network made of language – natural and computer.” Her most recent projects – the Internet art work “Object of Desire” and the series “Textwork” – continue those observations while engaging multiple languages to highlight connection and rejection.

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Photographer Adi Nes To Give Lecture on October 28 at 7 pm

October 24, 2010 – 2:24 pm

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Adi Nes creates oversized, staged photographs. His images deal with themes
of humanity and masculinity while investigating elements of Israeli identity
such as militarism, religion, ethnic groups and the tension between the
center and the periphery. Nes often gleans ideas from mythology, Art
History, and the history of photography. Expertly lit posed figures exist in
all his series: Soldiers, Boys, Prisoners and Biblical Stories.
Adi Nes has received world acclaim through a solo show at the Legion of
Honor Museum in San Francisco, the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art and
the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago. Biblical Stories has also
been exhibited at the Wexner Center for the Arts in Columbus, Ohio, the Jack
Shainman Gallery in New York, the Light & Sie Gallery in Dallas, Texas, the
Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, California and currently at the
Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica Roma as part of a European tour.

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Photos from Peter Rose Workshop and Lecture

October 14, 2010 – 11:43 am

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