Showing at Space Gallery on 10/6: !Women Art Revolution

An entertaining and revelatory “secret history” of Feminist Art,!Women Art Revolution deftly illuminates this under-explored movement through conversations, observations, archival footage and works of visionary artists, historians, curators and critics. Starting from its roots in 1960s antiwar and civil rights protests, the film details major developments in women’s art through the 1970s and explores how the tenacity and courage of these pioneering artists resulted in what is now widely regarded as the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

Thursday 10.06.2011, at Space Gallery in Portland

Doors at 7:00 PM, Starts at 7:30 PM, Ends at 9:30 PM, 

$7 / $5 for SPACE Members & Students with ID, All Ages

This coming Monday, 10/3: Prof. Carrie Scanga and Natalie Conn of Shoot Media Project

We will meet in the classroom on Monday for a 15 minute slide lecture by Prof. Carrie Scanga, followed by a visiting artist lecture by Natalie Conn, founder of Shoot Media Project. Carrie's lecture will start right at 6:30 because she has to leave at 6:45, so get there on time!

Natalie Conn studied painting and video at Cooper Union. She started a multi-media program called Shoot Media Project in July 2010 working with adults with developmental disabilities to create movies, photography series and animations. Shoot Media's biggest project is a collaborative television show called TV SHOW which encompasses a variety of projects from music videos to documentaries.

Blitz Crit Scheduled for October 19th

(Image from here)

Our first Blitz Crit will be held on October 19th, one week after we return from Fall Break. It will be a round-robin critique style, involving 20 minute studio visits with several guest artists and art historians, including Alex Dacorte from Philadelphia. You will need to have as much work on view in your studio as possible. Arm yourself with an artillery of questions to ask the critics in order to get the most out of this experience. It will be intense!

Our second and final Blitz Crit is scheduled for Monday, December 5th. Please mark both of these dates on your calendars.

Breakfast with Kyle Durrie on Thursday at 8am

Kyle Durrie has agreed to get up bright and early to have breakfast with our class at 8am on Thursday, September 29th. Meet at Moulton Union and sign in at the front desk. We will be in the North private dining room.

If you're curious about how she raised money for her moveable type project, here is a link to her Kickstarter campaign.

Visiting artist lecture and printmaking demonstration tomorrow!

In addition to a short artist talk, Kyle Durrie ('01) will lead a demonstration and hands-on activity in her homemade letterpress truck, which will be parked outside the VAC on Park Row. There will be refreshments and public printmaking going on. You can join the festivities, learn how prints are made, hear about how a Bowdoin alum is making her mark as an artist, and make a letterpress print to take home with you. Don't miss it!

September 28th at 4:30pm

Beam Classroom, VAC

MECA Crits on 10/18 or 10/20

Our class has been invited to participate in midterm critiques for senior sculpture majors at Maine College of Art in Portland. The MECA faculty would like Bowdoin seniors to come, listen, learn, and chime in. It would be a great opportunity for you to meet MECA students, see what kind of work they're making, tour the school's facilities, and practice participating in an intense critique session. The hope is that we can form a relationship with their class and invite them to come critique your work later this semester. Is anyone interested?

Their midterms will be held on the following days and times:
Tuesday, October 18th: 9am-12pm and 2pm-5pm
Thursday, October 20th: 2-5pm

Please check your calendars and let me know if you are willing or able to participate. It's an exciting opportunity, so I'm hoping at least a small group will be able to go.

Work by Ian Anderson, Associate Dean of Academic & Student Affairs at Maine College of Art

Meet at the Fort on Monday, 9/26

Tomorrow we will be doing studio visits at Fort Andross with Prof. Mark Wethli, Prof. John Bisbee, and artist Cassie Jones. Please meet on the loading dock by the Flea Market at 6:30pm sharp.

Curator’s Lecture: “Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan”

Elephant-shaped Zun Vessel, Late Shang Period, 12th-11th Century BCE, Human Provincial Museum

Jay Xu, Director of the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, to Discuss Ancient Chinese Bronzes.

Dr. Jay Xu is a co-curator of the exhibition “Along the Yangzi River: Regional Culture of the Bronze Age from Hunan,” currently on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. He will discuss ancient Chinese bronzes as the dominant medium for artistic expression during the Bronze Age (ca. 1500 BCE to 221 BCE) and interpret the regional characteristics of the exhibitedbronzes from Hunan. For more information on the exhibition, please visit the Museum’s website: http://www.bowdoin.edu/art-museum/. Xu is also one of the authors of the exhibition catalog, available in the Museum’s bookshop.

Thursday, September 22, 2011
4.30 pm
Kresge Auditorium, VAC

Tickets are not required.

Life Drawing - now every Sunday!

The Visual Arts department will be holding a life drawing session each Sunday for the remainder of the semester. All Bowdoin Students are welcome to attend. All you need is your trusty pencil and pad.

Every Sunday, 2-5 PM
VAC North Studio

Tell your friends!

21 Rooms: An Interactive Spectacle of Installation, Performance & Video Art

Friday, September 23 · 5:00pm - 9:00pm
The Nevada Motel

141 Long Sands Road
York, ME

Beginning Thursday, September 22, 21 featured artists will be afforded one of the motel’s 21 rooms for two nights to serve as a mini-residency or act as a studio.

On the second evening, two stories of rooms will be opened to the public and presented as mini-galleries. The show will transform the Nevada Motel into an interactive spectacle of installation, performance and video art. Participating artists will be coming from as close as Wells, Maine, and as far away as Dallas, Texas.

21 Rooms was guest-curated by Quinn Corey, a long-time creative presence in the emerging arts scene in Providence, RI, along with 3S co-founder, John Gayle.

The event is free and open to the public (donations generously accepted) and the Nevada Motel is located at 141 Long Beach Avenue in York, Maine. 21 Rooms is part of 3S’s ongoing Open Space series.

DJ Douglas Urbank, host of the Boston College WZBC radio program “The Pinwheels of Your Mind,” will spin experimental, improvisational, and otherwise unconventional music.

Event sponsor, Inn on the Blues and Guac-N-Roll, will generously provide food.

Following the show an after-party for both the participating artists and the public will be hosted at Inn on the Blues, featuring a cash bar and entertainment by acoustic duo, The Gentleman Outfit.

Participating Artists:

Sarah Baldwin - Wells, ME
Bill Cifuni - Lancaster, PA
Stephanie Cornell - Portsmouth, NH
Elizabeth Donsky - Brooklyn, NY
Katherine Doyle - Newcastle - NH
Tracy Walter Ferry - Cheshire, CT
Shawn Gilheeney - Providence, RI
Carly Glovinski - Dover, NH
Katie Hickman - Brooklyn, NY
Jessica Lauren Lipton - Portland, ME
Cynthia McLaughlin - Colrain, MA
Lori Miles - Indianapolis, IN
Bennett Morris - Portland ME
Tara Nelson - Jamaica Plain, MA
Andrew Neumann - Boston, MA
Marianne Newsom - Dallas TX
Abbey Ozanich - Chicago, IL
Dillon Paul - Brooklyn, NY
Julie Poitras Santos - Portland, ME
Sunny Sliger - Dallas, TX
Douglas Urbank - Boston, MA
Willa VanNostrand - Providence, RI
Jackie Weaver - Troy, NY
Lindsey Wolkowicz - Brooklyn, NY

Opening in the Fish Bowl this Friday: Island Found

"Engaging Insects: Artists and Scientists" opening at USM Art Gallery

“Natural Cross Dressing” by Nina Katchadourian

“Wing” by USM Professor of Biology Kenneth Weber

The USM Art Gallery’s first exhibition of the season will be “Engaging Insects: Artists and Scientists,” displaying the myriad ways in which artists and scientists work with insects. Curated by Associate Professor of Art Kim Grant and Art Gallery Director Carolyn Eyler, viewers will see that insects are not only visually fascinating, they also raise provocative questions about our relations to the world around us.

All of the following events associated with the exhibition are free and open to the public.

Exhibition: “Engaging Insects: Artists and Scientists,” featuring the work of artists and USM faculty and researchers.
USM Art Gallery, Gorham
Thursday, September 22 – Thursday, November 10
11 a.m.- 4 p.m., Tuesdays-Fridays; 1-5 p.m., Saturdays & Sundays
Opening Reception: 6-8 p.m., Thursday, September 22

Engaging Insects Roundtable Discussion:
4:15-5:45 p.m., Thursday, September 22 in the Art Gallery, Gorham.
The exhibit’s curators will be joined by several of the artists and scientists for a discussion prior to the opening reception.

Art Talk with Visiting Artist Nina Katchadourian:
1 p.m., Friday, September 23 in Burnham Lounge, Robie Andrews Hall, Gorham.
Katchadourian exhibits internationally and uses photography, video, installation, and graphic art in her unorthodox encounters with insects.

Film screening: “Beetle Queen Conquers Tokyo”
4-5:30 p.m., Thursday, October 20, Room 10, Bailey Hall, Gorham

Space Gallery Block Party in Portland, September 10

Block Party returns to the Portland Arts District, for another year of outdoor, interactive art installations, performances and fun!

SPACE Gallery, in collaboration with a host of Portland arts organizations, alongside their numerous neighbors on Congress Street, will transform a portion of the Arts District along Congress Street into a temporary zone for artistic exploration and enjoyment. Block Party 2011 will feature site-specific installations and performances by Maine artists Greta Bank, Kimberly Convery, Sean O'Brian, and Lorem Ipsum Theater Productions, ranging from a mobile theater to a scale-model Godzilla film set!

Providence, RI's What Cheer? Brigade, a 19-piece street marching band, will ratchet up the party vibe with their irresistible New Orleans meets Samba meets Balkan Brass sound! Attendees will be able to witness the debut of Pickwick Independent Press' project "Analog Tweets", observe Shoot Media Project's "Newscast" in production, get in on the fun with The Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine's "Make Your Own Musical Instruments and Costume" station for kids, and pop-in to Mayo Street Arts' "Dress-Up Photo Booth" for an impromptu portrait session. With additional performances and projects from the ICA at MECA, Portland Ovations, Portland Stage, The Telling Room, Mensk, Sylvia Kania Gallery/Dooryard Collective and more, Block Party 2011 is bound to delight and surprise!

Saturday, September 10, 5-8PM, Congress Street, Portland

Panel and Reception at Bates Museum on Friday, September 9

Andrea Sulzer, Untitled (detail), 2011, colored pencil. Photo: Luc Demers.

As part of a statewide initiative exploring the art of drawing, the exhibition Emerging Dis/Order: Drawings by Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth and Andrea Sulzer features new work by respected Maine artists who explore themes of memory and loss, order and chaos, and emerging and converging human behavior.

Amy Stacey Curtis, Alison Hildreth and Andrea Sulzer discuss their work in the exhibition Emerging Dis/Order at 6 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, in Room 104 of the Olin Arts Center, 75 Russell St.

Celebrating both Emerging Dis/Order, which closes the next day, and the new exhibition Manuel Alvarez Bravo: Fotografias de Mexico (1933-1976), a reception takes place directly after the panel in the art museum, which is also in Olin.

Please email Alicia if you'd like to get a ride to this event!

ART+TEXT

The first and last assignment of the semester is due next Monday, September 12th:
Create a work of art that features text as the primary subject/object. The text can be created or quoted. It can be legible or illegible. Your work can take the form of a drawing, painting, sculpture, installation/intervention, photograph(s), or a time-based project such as a video or performance.

Tips For Artists who Want to Sell (1966-68) by John Baldessari

The only rule is work.

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