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Visiting Artist: Richard Vine
February 11, 2005
Where: Fine Arts Center - art history lecture room (204)
6:00pm in the art history lecture room richard vine, managing editor of art in america, will conduct a public lecture, here in the school of art, entitled, "why is contemporary art so weird?" it will take place on friday, february 11 at 6:00pm in the art history lecture room.
Contact: 419-372-2609
ART Talks presents... Richard Razafindrakoto
February 10, 2005
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 204
ART Talks presents... Richard Razafindrakoto
Painter, Antanarivo, Madagascar
(sponsored by the Labino Black Visiting Artist Fund)
9:00 pm
Room 204 Fine Arts Center
Richard Razafindrakoto is a contemporary artist from Antananarivo, Madagascar expressing Malagasy culture and comments on global society through large-scale multi-media painting, installation art, and set design. Primarily a painter, he is also explores the textile and beadwork, traditions which powerful spiritual, political, social, and medicinal significance in Madagascar. He regularly works with other painters, installation artists, poets, contemporary dancers, musicians, and sculptors, and has helped organize numerous exhibitions. He himself has exhibited in Gabon, La Reunion, and the Seychelles. He is the Founder and director of the Isa Atelier Galerie, a small gallery and library, that serves young artists Razanfindrakoto is mentoring who have accompanied him into the community and to a local orphanage to teach art to the young.
Contact: 419-372-8514
ART Talks presents... Dr. Richard Putney: Knights, Bishops, Kings, and Things: Rethinking the Cloister at the Toledo Museum of Art
February 10, 2005
Where: Bowen Thompson Student Union - Room 202B
Associate Professor of Art History and Associate Chair, Department of Art, University of Toledo
College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Forum
12.00 lunch
12.30 lecture
Room 202B Bowen Thompson Student Union
Native of the Philadelphia area, Dick Putney received his Ph.D. in medieval art from the University of Delaware. He has taught in the University of Toledo's art program since 1979, focusing on medieval art, history of architecture, and urban history. Committed to interdisciplinary teaching, winner of the University's Outstanding Teacher Award and first chair of its Department of Art, he was a member of search committees that selected Frank Gehry as architect of U.T.'s Center for the Visual Arts, and Sejima and Nishizawa and Associates as designers of the Glass Pavilion for the Museum. He has published Medieval Art, Medieval People; the Cloister Gallery of the Toledo Museum of Art (2002), and received a Kress Fellowship to plan the reinstallation of the medieval collection.
Contact: 419-372-8575
Visiting Art Historian Paul Greenhalgh
February 8, 2005
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 1101
10:00am By popular demand, Paul will repeat his lecture on the difinitive survey of the Art Nouveau style. Presented by the BGSU Clay Club with generous support by Pepsi
Contact: srozene@bgnet.bgsu.edu
Visiting Artists: Five Ceramics Artists
February 7 through February 9, 2005
Where: Fine Arts Center - Room 204
9:00 pm
Fine Arts Center - Room 204
The BGSU Student Ceramics Organization is pleased to announce that it will host five artists-in-residence in the Ceramics studio the week of February 7th to 11th. Sanam Emami of Alfred University, Stephen Grimmer of Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Steve Godfrey of University of Alaska Anchorage, Paul McMullan of Siena Heights University, and Tanya Rudenjak will spend the week creating a body of work. Also visiting February 7th and 8th is Paul Greenhalgh, President of Nova Scotia College of Art and Design University. Greenhalgh's most recent book is The Persistence of Craft, The Applied Arts Today (2002, A & C Black, London); prior to joining NSCAD University he was the Head of Research at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. His book The Modern Ideal, The Rise and Collapse of Idealism in the Visual Arts from the Enlightenment to Post Modernism is due to be published in October.
Three public lectures are scheduled, all at 9pm in room 204 Fine Arts Center:
Monday, February 7th
- Paul Greenhalgh
Tuesday, February 8th
- Stephen Grimmer
- Steve Godfrey
Wednesday, February 9th
- Sanam Emami
- Paul McMullan
All events are free and open to the public. The artists will not have scheduled demonstration times but will be creating their work in the Ceramics studio, room 1218 Fine Arts Center, during the week.
This event is supported by the Student Ceramics Organization and Pepsi
For more information, please contact Ceramics: 419-372-3836.
Contact: 419-372-3836
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