Hite galleries offer variety in spring semester
January 3rd, 2005
More than 30 years ago Howard and Kathryn Clark pieced together their art and engineering backgrounds with the drive to revive the practice of making handmade paper in the United States.
Their Twinrocker Handmade Paper company now has a mill in Brookston, Ind., where apprentices learn papermaking techniques and where artists turn for specialty papers on which to create their own masterpieces.
The Clarks will give a free talk about their artwork and business at the University of Louisville March 10 at 5:30 p.m. in the Ekstrom Library auditorium. “Paper and Image,” a collection of Twinrocker paper, will be displayed in Covi Gallery of Schneider Hall and in Ekstrom Library Feb. 24–March 20.
The paper exhibition is one of several the fine arts department is sponsoring during the spring semester to highlight student accomplishments and visiting exhibitors:
- In the opening days of the semester, gallerygoers will have another chance to see the “Place/Displace: 3 Generations of Taiwanese Art” exhibition that opened in November and will run through Jan. 16.
Gallery director John Begley and Chicago-based Chinese ink painter Charles Liu put together the exhibition after visiting artists in 2003 during a curators’ tour organized by a Taiwanese art council. The exhibition includes brushwork, video, photorealism and abstraction, and reflects the various Asian, Western and Aboriginal influences in Taiwan. - Three separate exhibits will be on display Jan. 20–Feb. 20, with an opening reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Jan. 20. Faculty member Linda Gigante is curator for the Covi Gallery’s “Memoria: Roman Funerary Monuments from the Speed Art Museum.” Keith Bradley, the Eli J. Shaheen professor of classics and history at the University of Notre Dame, will discuss Roman social order and slavery as they relate to the items in the Roman funerary objects exhibit. Bradley’s talk in the gallery will begin at 5:30 p.m. Feb. 9. Fiber artist Mary Zena’s sewn vessels will be in Gallery X, and Karen Anderson is curator of a photo exhibit titled “on the street.”
- From Feb. 24 to March 20 students Kathleen Olliges, Jim Chambliss, Collis Marshall and Mary Yates will exhibit their master’s thesis works in Belknap Gallery. Artist Nathan Hayden will install his drawings in Gallery X beginning Feb. 22; after the installation is completed during that week, he and curator Maiza Hixson will discuss the installation in a gallery talk at 12:30 p.m. March 1.
- The “Spring BFA Exhibitions” will be on display in all galleries March 24-April 17, with an opening reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. March 24 for the student artists whose work is toward requirements for their bachelor’s degrees in fine arts.
- The “Annual All-student Show”, which will run April 21-May 22, will have its opening reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. April 21. The exhibit will be in all galleries.
The fine arts department’s Hite Art Institute galleries in Schneider Hall are free and open to the public from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. weekdays, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturdays and 1 p.m. to 6 p.m. Sundays.
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