Opening for The Subject I Know Best, a reunion art show of ASC Alumnae

The Department of Art and Art History at is proud to sponsor The Subject I Know Best.

I paint myself because I am so often alone and because I am the subject I know best.”
~Frida Kahlo

Images courtesy of Michelle Spinnato, Katie Calico and Jo Hunsinger

Join us this Saturday, April 21st, 2012, from 4-9 pm at YayStudio!

Inspired by the above quotation from artist Frida Kahlo, this year’s Alumnae art show is centered around the theme of self portraiture.

Featured are works by graduates ranging from the class of 1955 to the class of 2004. The selected artists have interpreted the concept of self portraiture through both traditional and unconventional media. We invite you to an evening of art and refreshments as we celebrate their visions.

Image courtesy of Jill Carson.

Opening – April 21, 4-9 pm

YayStudio
2830 Franklin Street
Avondale Estates, GA 30002

Artists Include:
Julia C. Beeman
Katie Calico
Jill Carson
Jo Hunsinger
Julia Lutgendorf
Nicolette Morgan
Leah Owenby
Michelle Spinnato
Cara Steinbuchel
Jennifer Young

Yay Studio is open by appointment only. Please email us at gallery@yaystudio.com to call 404.585.0363.

Call for art – The Subject I Know Best, A Show of Agnes Scott College Alumnae

The Subject I Know Best, A Show of Agnes Scott College Alumnae

YayStudio (run by alums Julia Lutgendorf and Nicolette Morgan) is hosting the second annual Agnes Scott Alumnae art show!

Submissions are due today! Though if you’re in a crunch (and ask real nice), we’ll accept submissions sent in a couple days late. (We also aren’t above being bribed with baked goods or beer…)

Requirements

Artist must be an alumna of Agnes Scott College, subject matter must be self-portraiture. We encourage you to approach the concept both creatively and broadly.

Media: works on paper, including photography

Size: Final works may be no larger than 16×20 inches. No minimum size requirements.

Number of pieces: Artist may submit up to 3 works of art. Please send .jpg submissions (up to two images of each piece submitted) to gallery@yaystudio.com. Please also include an artist’s statement.

Dates

Submissions due by 5 p.m. (eastern time), March 23.

Artists will be notified of their acceptance status by 5 p.m. (eastern time), March 30. Accepted works must be delivered ready to hang, in a thin black frame with white mat. Final framed size may be no larger than 20×24 inches.

All accepted artwork must be delivered to YayStudio no later than 5 p.m., April 6.

Shipping/transportation is the responsibility of the artist.

For questions, please email gallery@yaystudio.com

Discussion on An Education in Process

Join us TOMORROW, March 22nd, from 1-2 pm in the Dalton Gallery for a discussion of An Education in Process. Artists and art historians talk together about working processes and relationships. Donna Sadler, Anne Beidler, Lisa Alembik, Katherine Smith, Nell Ruby and Jason Ciejka respond to their work in the current exhibition in the Dalton Gallery: An Education in Process

Katherine Smith speaks at The Contemporary, March 3rd, 2012

Image: Michael Rooks with Andy Warhol, Self-Portrait, 1966, Silkscreen ink on synthetic polymer paint on nine canvases, The Museum of Modern Art, Gift of Philip Johnson

Join Professor Katherine Smith, as she speaks at The Contemporary this Saturday, March 3rd, from 11 am to noon.

Lecture: From Warhol to Who?
Sat, Mar 3, 11am-12pm

In the second of two lectures that analyze the High Museum/MoMA partnership and current exhibition, Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters, Michael Rooks, Wieland Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art; High Museum, Katherine Smith, Asst. Professor of Art, Agnes Scott College; and Artistic Director Stuart Horodner propose a hypothetical exhibition about mastery and methodology, featuring a diverse roster of contemporary artists, called From Warhol to Who? which would examine politics, diversity, collaboration, and the abject. They will explain their choices and show images of possible artworks.

Click here to learn more.

Meet Alumna Anne Harris, Class of 1991

Anne Harris

Major: Art History, Classical Languages
Additional Degrees: AM University of Chicago (’92), PhD University of Chicago (’99)

I’m a professor of art history at DePauw University, a small liberal arts college in Greencastle, IN. I can honestly say that every time I sit down to prepare a class, and every time I enter the classroom, my Agnes Scott experiences frame what I am doing. Education and social change are inter-related through dialogue, debate, conversation and confrontation. The late-night dorm discussions, and the intense seminar exchanges created lines of questioning that I am still pursuing. I entered college looking for something inexhaustible, for a set of questions I could devote my life to: I found those in medieval art history, and it is thanks to Agnes Scott College, the tremendous professors I had here, and the beautiful friendships I made that those questions remain a vibrant motivation to greater pursuits of knowledge, and through those pursuits, to social change, and on good days, to social justice.

I came alive to the world in the summer of 1989 on Donna Sadler and Richard Parry’s Global Awareness trip to Greece. We read Socratic dialogues in the evenings and studied archaeological sites in the days – there was a continuity between the past and the present, whether it was about the definition of courage in a Socratic dialogue, or about the visualization of beauty in the Parthenon. There are abstract ideas that move ever forward towards greater and more widespread human dignity, and on that trip to Greece, I learned how to ask questions of these ideas.

Jordan Casteel ’11, featured in the 12 best Colorado artists 35 and under

We are excited to see recent graduate, Jordan Casteel, featured as one of Colorado’s best artists 35 and under!

Art’s New View: The 12 best Colorado artists 35 and under

Jordan Casteel, 22

Residence: Denver

Medium: Painting

Why we like her: This recent graduate from Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Ga., is bounding with potential. She creates expressive, Alice Neel-inspired portraits that draw on her African-American heritage.

Continue reading the article here.

Meet Alumna Elysia Lock, Class of 2004

Elysia Lock

I spent from 2004 – 2009ish slowly building my studio practice and taking in as much art as I could, visiting galleries and museums in the States and Europe. I became heavily involved with the Burning Man Community and art scene in general in Chicago around 2009. In 2010 I was awarded a B.U.R.N. art grant with Yva Neal for “The Fungus Humongous,” and joined the Steering Committee. I joined B.U.R.N.’s Art Grant Committee in 2011. I was awarded a grant in 2011 for my interactive glow-drawing piece, “Drawing From Light.”

The one event of which I am the proudest is We Burn: Chicago Burning Man Art. I came up with the idea of an exhibition of art by Chicago burners, presented it to the Steering Committee of B.U.R.N., and they funded it! Both the October 2010 and April 2011 events were a success. I have truly loved curating these events, looking through other people’s art and picking things that speak to me and hopefully others.

Professor of Art History, Donna Sadler, Authors a New Book

We are proud to announce that Donna Sadler, Professor of Art History, will have her newest book, Reading the Reverse Façade of Reims Cathedral: Royalty and Ritual in Thirteenth-Century France published by Ashgate in July 2012

From Ashgate:

Though long recognized as one of the most beautiful works from the second half of the thirteenth century, the magnificent sculptural program of the reverse façade at Reims Cathedral has received little in the way of scholarly attention. Interpreting the iconography in the light of Latin texts associated with the building, its history and its ceremonial use, Donna Sadler assesses the significance of the reverse façade in light of other thirteenth century visual programs associated with the court of Louis IX.

The book’s chapters deal with the history of the cathedral and its architectural antecedents; the iconographic message of the visual program, the meaning of the reverse façade and how it intersects with the overall iconography; the function of the verso and how it is enhanced by the marriage of form and content; and a consideration of contemporary works linked to the court of Saint Louis, concluding with a brief look at the new roles sculpture assumes as it migrates inside cathedrals.

Ultimately this book reveals how the imagery on the reverse façade not only conforms to a system of memory and mode of medieval narratology, but also articulates a dominant ideological position regarding the interdependence of ecclesiastical and royal powers.

Congratulations Donna!

Interview of Mary Ann Athens ’90 in The Artful Parent

Mary Ann Athens on Art in Education

Mary Ann Athens is an amazing Asheville-area elementary art teacher and the mother of two. I first starting hearing about her, her summer camps, and her after-school art programs a few years ago and am excited to finally interview her on The Artful Parent! Here she quotes Einstein and talks about the challenges and importance of art in education.

Continue reading the article on The Artful Parent

Elina Gertsman, Keynote Speaker for Collage 2012

We are excited to announce that Proffesor Elina Gertsman will be the keynote speaker for this year’s Collage!

From case.edu…

Elina Gertsman
Assistant Professor of Medieval Art, Ph.D. Boston University, 2004

Prof. Gertsman specializes in Gothic and late medieval art. Her research interests include issues of seeing, memory, and perception; uncanny animation of inanimate objects; performance/performativity; multi-sensory reception processes; late medieval macabre; materiality and somaticism; and medieval concepts of emotion and affectivity.

She is the author of The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), the editor of Visualizing Medieval Performance: Perspectives, Histories, Contexts (2008) and Crying in the Middle Ages: Tears of History (2011), and co-editor of Thresholds of Medieval Visual Culture: Liminal Spaces (forthcoming in 2012). She is currently at work on a book-length manuscript that, while focusing on late medieval Shrine Madonna sculptures, will examine the rhetoric of secrecy, the discourse of containment, and the tropes of unveiling within the context of the increasingly important roles of sight and touch in late medieval devotional art. Prof. Gertsman’s articles appeared in numerous peer-reviewed journals and collections. A recipient of several prestigious fellowships, she has been invited to speak at many European and American conferences and colloquia, and was a keynote speaker at the Nordic Gender Network conference held in Helsinki in June of 2011.