Receive Deadline July 15, 2010: CURATE THIS! 2010 - global exhibition of new art + new design - artist, architect + designer registration: http://www.curatethis.org/for-artists-and-designers.php
Highlights of interest to all artists, architects + designers:
In addition to the exhibition opportunities, an International Public Vote Award of $2,500 will be awarded to one artist, architect, designer, duo, group or collective. An online vote will occur from August 15 - 17, 2010. The BECA Foundation is also pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the CURATE THIS! online magazine featuring participating CURATE THIS! Artists, Architects + Designers from around the world. A special monthly feature will focus on 5 participating Artists, Architects and/or Designers. View current pARTicipating CURATE THIS! 2010 exhibition venues at: http://www.curatethis.org/participating-venues.php
Of particular interest to graphic designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture designers, accessory designers, architects and interior designers:
Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will be selecting 10 - 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating designers and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, 'CURATE THIS! 2010 - NEW DESIGN'. **For those in NYC: Ellen Lupton and associated curators have put together an insightful exhibition titled, 'Why Design Now?' for the 4th Cooper-Hewitt National Design Triennial. View in person in NYC thru Jan. 9 or at: http://exhibitions.cooperhewitt.org/Why-Design-Now/
Of particular interest to artists working in any media and in any discipline(s):
Helen Pheby, PhD, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, will be selecting 10 - 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating artists and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, 'CURATE THIS! 2010 - NEW ART'. YSP exhibits an ever-changing diverse collection of works and new projects within 500 acres of both indoor and outdoor galleries. View current and upcoming exhibitions at YSP at: http://ysp.co.uk/view.aspx?id=16 along with events and offsite projects. There are so many exciting projects happening concurrently at YSP and their website does a wonderful job of sharing that with those who aren't able to be there in person.
Thursday, June 10, 2010
Dance on Camera Screening & Concert
National Dance Week - NYC
celebrates dance on camera
Dancefilms.org
Saturday, June 12, 2010, 1pm
Alvin Ailey Center, 405 West 55th St. at 9th Avenue
introduction by Deirdre Towers, DFA's Artistic Director
Dance on Camera/National Dance Week - NYC Program
Discounted tickets are available online. Register!
TRAILER from Dance on Camera Festival
BEGUINE
Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands, 2009, 4:44m
One man's response to losing his lover.
THEY CALL HIM "CUBAN PETE"
Oscar Lopez, USA, 2001, 8m
Shown with the permission of WPBS "New Florida," this documentary allows the audience to meet Mr. Cuban Pete, legendary Latin dancer, Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar.
LA VIE EST BELLE
Tristan Duhamel, France, 2004; 3.13m
A street-art character painted by Jérôme Mesnager dances on the walls of Paris.
MOVE THE FILM
Melinda & Kurt Songer Soderling, USA, 2010, 7m trailer
Sneak peak at a fiscal sponsored project of DFA that includes some of Hollywood and Broadways most talented dancers and choreographers.
little ease [outside the box]
ami ipapo and matt tarr, USA, 2008, 6:53m
A new take on a choreography conceived in 1985 by extreme action pioneer Elizabeth Streb.
WORLD CLASS DANCERS
Frank Correa, USA, 2010, 5'
A hip hop group aged 11-22 based in NYC, led by Juan Zapata, as seen in performance and rehearsals.
Live performance by World Class Dancers
TRASH DANCE
Oliver Fergusson-Taylor, 2008, UK, 1M
Hip hop animated deconstruction of trash heap.
This program was made possible with the support of the DFA, National Dance Week-NYC, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
celebrates dance on camera
Dancefilms.org
Saturday, June 12, 2010, 1pm
Alvin Ailey Center, 405 West 55th St. at 9th Avenue
introduction by Deirdre Towers, DFA's Artistic Director
Dance on Camera/National Dance Week - NYC Program
Discounted tickets are available online. Register!
TRAILER from Dance on Camera Festival
BEGUINE
Douwe Dijkstra, Netherlands, 2009, 4:44m
One man's response to losing his lover.
THEY CALL HIM "CUBAN PETE"
Oscar Lopez, USA, 2001, 8m
Shown with the permission of WPBS "New Florida," this documentary allows the audience to meet Mr. Cuban Pete, legendary Latin dancer, Pedro "Cuban Pete" Aguilar.
LA VIE EST BELLE
Tristan Duhamel, France, 2004; 3.13m
A street-art character painted by Jérôme Mesnager dances on the walls of Paris.
MOVE THE FILM
Melinda & Kurt Songer Soderling, USA, 2010, 7m trailer
Sneak peak at a fiscal sponsored project of DFA that includes some of Hollywood and Broadways most talented dancers and choreographers.
little ease [outside the box]
ami ipapo and matt tarr, USA, 2008, 6:53m
A new take on a choreography conceived in 1985 by extreme action pioneer Elizabeth Streb.
WORLD CLASS DANCERS
Frank Correa, USA, 2010, 5'
A hip hop group aged 11-22 based in NYC, led by Juan Zapata, as seen in performance and rehearsals.
Live performance by World Class Dancers
TRASH DANCE
Oliver Fergusson-Taylor, 2008, UK, 1M
Hip hop animated deconstruction of trash heap.
This program was made possible with the support of the DFA, National Dance Week-NYC, and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.
Taft Museum of Art Calendar of Events July 2010
Taft Museum of Art - July 2010
Special Exhibitions
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
Though August 8
The photographs of the pictorialist movement are among the most spectacular works in the medium’s history. The works in this exhibition rival painting with expertly crafted, one-of-a-kind images. Included are works from George Eastman House by Julia Margaret Cameron, Frederick Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, Edward Steichen, and early works by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.
Pictorialism was both a movement and a style of photography that produced spectacular images over a century’s time. When photography was invented in the early part of the 19th century, most people considered it a faddish mechanical trick and very far from fine art. Some early photographers, however, sought to elevate the medium to the status of painting by emulating the compositions, symbols, visual effects, and moods of painting. This international movement peaked in the years between 1895 and 1925.
Tracing this influential vein of photography, this exhibition includes 118 vintage masterpieces from well-known photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Gertrude Käsebier, and Heinrich Kühn. Also featured are surprising early works by such photographers as Edward Weston, Imogene Cunningham, and Ansel Adams, who are widely known as modernists but began as pictorialists.
TruthBeauty is a smaller version of the exhibition by the same name produced by Vancouver Art Gallery. Both versions were curated by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, from which the works in the exhibition were selected.
Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections
Through July 25
Along with two major oil paintings, one from early in his career and one late, the Taft Museum of Art holds ten watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851). Spanning the first half of the 19th century, these watercolors depict landscapes of Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Italy. Historically, they broke new ground in the artistic fields of book illustration, travel views, and the watercolor medium itself.
Programs & Events
Shop Sale, July 1-11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Find unique items at great prices during the Shop Sale. Save 45-75% on a variety of merchandise including jewelry, scarves, baby gifts, stationery and candles!
Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
Highlights of the Taft
After lunch or before a concert on Sunday afternoons, join a Taft docent for a tour of the highlights of the Museum’s world-renowned collection. Free with Museum admission. No reservations are taken. For information call (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, July 1, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Jymi Bolden
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Wednesdays, July 7, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Independence Day: Portrait of George Washington
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, July 8, 6 p.m.
Shutterbugs in Cinema: Motion Pictures and Still Photographers:
Funny Face, 1957 (103 minutes)
Directed by Stanley Donen, starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn
A fashion photographer convinces a reluctant bookstore sales clerk to accept a contract as a high-fashion model. Inspired by the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, enjoy three classic films in different genres. Explores how life and art intersect through the lens of the still photographer as leading man. Cincinnati Public Radio film critic Larry Thomas will introduce each movie and lead a discussion afterward. The exhibition will be open until each film begins. Film screenings are free. Optional box dinner is available for $12 with advance purchase. Reservations are recommended. Information: (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, July 10, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition. Free with museum admission, no reservations are taken.
Sunday, July 11, 2010, 1–3 p.m.
Adult Digital Photography Workshop
Learn ways to enhance your photographs and find out about editing software. Participants will visit the special exhibition TruthBeauty and take photographs using elements of composition and other techniques seen in the exhibition. Following a critique session, participants will learn how the editing software Picasa can improve their final images.
Please bring a fully charged digital camera, a blank memory card, a card reader, and your imagination! Instructor Lisa Britton is a professional photographer who teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Reservations required. Call (513) 684-4513 or visith http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/studioprograms.php
Sunday, July 11, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Nancy Huth, Education Curator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Wednesdays, July 14, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Storming the Bastille: Meissonier's The Three Friends
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, July 15, 7 p.m.
Lecture: Seeing but not Believing: The Creative Artist and Photography
Dennis Kiel looks at a select group of pictorialist photographers and their attempt to establish photography as art. Kiel is chief curator at the Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography. The exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, will remain open until the lecture begins. Cost for this program: Free for members or students. $10 for nonmembers. Reservations are recommended. Call (513) 684-4515 or order online at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/lectures.php
Saturday, July 17, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Taft Museum of Art
Families Create: Family Crests and Coats of Arms
Coats of arms and family crests tell who people were, where they were from and what they did. Tell your own story in a coat of arms you design on a colorful background. Explore the world of art through gallery visits and activities designed for children ages 5–12 and adults to learn, create, interact, and have fun together. Cost for each program: $8 for members and Cincinnati Arts Association members, $12 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission) Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online www.taftmuseum.org/familiescreate.htm
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation. Weston Art Gallery Families Create! Program Sponsor: Whitney and Phillip Long. Fine Arts Fund Partner: Duke Energy Corp.
Friday, July 17, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Tamera Muente, Curatorial Assistant and Exhibitions Coordinator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Sunday, July 18, 1-4 p.m.
Third Sunday Funday: Kid Detectives
Explore art to find clues about the lives of kids long ago, hear stories about kids from the past, make an old-fashioned craft, and play summertime games. Learn about real detective work from the Youth Services Officer of the Cincinnati Police Department. Bring the whole family to the Taft Museum of Art on the third Sunday of each month this summer to explore, create, and play, all for FREE. Activities including self-guided tours, art-making, storytelling, and games are ongoing, so stop in when you have time and stay as long as you like. All programs are FREE. No reservations taken. For more information, call (513) 684-4524
Sponsor: The Charles H. Dater Foundation
Free Sundays are made possible by a grant from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.
Wednesday, July 21, 12 p.m.
Taste of the Taft: Heroes of Ohio
Suspense and humor mingle in tales from the rich fabric of Ohio's history and folklore as master storyteller Rick Sowash tells the tales of Ohioans who made a difference in the lives of others. This annual series of luncheon lectures returns with a lineup of local luminaries giving presentations on history, culture, and society under the tent on the terrace. Box lunch is included. Reservations are required. Cost for this program is $22 . Group rate for 8 or more is $17. Call (513) 684-4515 or register online at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taste.php
Sponsor: Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Western & Southern Financial Group
Wednesdays, July 21, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: A Question of Perspective: Mauve's Changing Pasture
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, July 22, 6 p.m.
Shutterbugs in Cinema: Motion Pictures and Still Photographers:
The Bridges of Madison County, 1995 (135 mintues)
Directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep
A National Geographic photographer happens into the life of a lonely farm wife while her family is away. Inspired by the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, enjoy three classic films in different genres. Explores how life and art intersect through the lens of the still photographer as leading man. Cincinnati Public Radio film critic Larry Thomas will introduce each movie and lead a discussion afterward. The exhibition will be open until each film begins. Film screenings are free. Optional box dinner is available for $12 with advance purchase. Reservations are recommended. Information: (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, July 24, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition. Free with museum admission, no reservations are taken.
Sunday, July 25, 2 p.m.
Taft Sessions: Wake the Bear
Acoustic music returns to the Taft Museum of Art this summer with free concerts under the tent in the garden. Born in the second bedroom of his Cincinnati home, Scott Cunningham began recording as Wake the Bear in 2004. From aliens, chickens, and surviving the ’80s—to a dog, a god, and a good many drinks—the music wears its heart on its sleeve, without the cheese. The sound weaves assorted keyboards, guitars, rhythms, ’70s women‘s choirs, gin-soaked vocals and dog whines. Wake the Bear’s third album, Player Piano, is entirely inspired by the Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name. Local indie bands come out of the bars and into the daylight to share their tunes. Come early for lunch and a Highlights of the Taft tour. Stay late to experience the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945. This concert is free, no reservations are taken. Cash bar and light snacks available. For information, call (513) 684-4526 or go online to www.taftmuseum.org
Media sponsors: WNKU, CityBeat
Wednesdays, July 28, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: I'm Not Lion: A Pair of Chinese Temple Guardians
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike St., in downtown Cincinnati. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and free for children under 18. The museum is free to all on Sundays. Call 513-241-0343 or visit the website at www.taftmuseum.org for additional information.
Special Exhibitions
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
Though August 8
The photographs of the pictorialist movement are among the most spectacular works in the medium’s history. The works in this exhibition rival painting with expertly crafted, one-of-a-kind images. Included are works from George Eastman House by Julia Margaret Cameron, Frederick Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, Edward Steichen, and early works by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.
Pictorialism was both a movement and a style of photography that produced spectacular images over a century’s time. When photography was invented in the early part of the 19th century, most people considered it a faddish mechanical trick and very far from fine art. Some early photographers, however, sought to elevate the medium to the status of painting by emulating the compositions, symbols, visual effects, and moods of painting. This international movement peaked in the years between 1895 and 1925.
Tracing this influential vein of photography, this exhibition includes 118 vintage masterpieces from well-known photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Gertrude Käsebier, and Heinrich Kühn. Also featured are surprising early works by such photographers as Edward Weston, Imogene Cunningham, and Ansel Adams, who are widely known as modernists but began as pictorialists.
TruthBeauty is a smaller version of the exhibition by the same name produced by Vancouver Art Gallery. Both versions were curated by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, from which the works in the exhibition were selected.
Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections
Through July 25
Along with two major oil paintings, one from early in his career and one late, the Taft Museum of Art holds ten watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851). Spanning the first half of the 19th century, these watercolors depict landscapes of Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Italy. Historically, they broke new ground in the artistic fields of book illustration, travel views, and the watercolor medium itself.
Programs & Events
Shop Sale, July 1-11, 11 a.m.-5 p.m.
Find unique items at great prices during the Shop Sale. Save 45-75% on a variety of merchandise including jewelry, scarves, baby gifts, stationery and candles!
Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
Highlights of the Taft
After lunch or before a concert on Sunday afternoons, join a Taft docent for a tour of the highlights of the Museum’s world-renowned collection. Free with Museum admission. No reservations are taken. For information call (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, July 1, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Jymi Bolden
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Wednesdays, July 7, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Independence Day: Portrait of George Washington
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, July 8, 6 p.m.
Shutterbugs in Cinema: Motion Pictures and Still Photographers:
Funny Face, 1957 (103 minutes)
Directed by Stanley Donen, starring Fred Astaire and Audrey Hepburn
A fashion photographer convinces a reluctant bookstore sales clerk to accept a contract as a high-fashion model. Inspired by the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, enjoy three classic films in different genres. Explores how life and art intersect through the lens of the still photographer as leading man. Cincinnati Public Radio film critic Larry Thomas will introduce each movie and lead a discussion afterward. The exhibition will be open until each film begins. Film screenings are free. Optional box dinner is available for $12 with advance purchase. Reservations are recommended. Information: (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, July 10, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition. Free with museum admission, no reservations are taken.
Sunday, July 11, 2010, 1–3 p.m.
Adult Digital Photography Workshop
Learn ways to enhance your photographs and find out about editing software. Participants will visit the special exhibition TruthBeauty and take photographs using elements of composition and other techniques seen in the exhibition. Following a critique session, participants will learn how the editing software Picasa can improve their final images.
Please bring a fully charged digital camera, a blank memory card, a card reader, and your imagination! Instructor Lisa Britton is a professional photographer who teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Reservations required. Call (513) 684-4513 or visith http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/studioprograms.php
Sunday, July 11, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Nancy Huth, Education Curator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Wednesdays, July 14, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Storming the Bastille: Meissonier's The Three Friends
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, July 15, 7 p.m.
Lecture: Seeing but not Believing: The Creative Artist and Photography
Dennis Kiel looks at a select group of pictorialist photographers and their attempt to establish photography as art. Kiel is chief curator at the Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography. The exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, will remain open until the lecture begins. Cost for this program: Free for members or students. $10 for nonmembers. Reservations are recommended. Call (513) 684-4515 or order online at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/lectures.php
Saturday, July 17, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Taft Museum of Art
Families Create: Family Crests and Coats of Arms
Coats of arms and family crests tell who people were, where they were from and what they did. Tell your own story in a coat of arms you design on a colorful background. Explore the world of art through gallery visits and activities designed for children ages 5–12 and adults to learn, create, interact, and have fun together. Cost for each program: $8 for members and Cincinnati Arts Association members, $12 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission) Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online www.taftmuseum.org/familiescreate.htm
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation. Weston Art Gallery Families Create! Program Sponsor: Whitney and Phillip Long. Fine Arts Fund Partner: Duke Energy Corp.
Friday, July 17, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Tamera Muente, Curatorial Assistant and Exhibitions Coordinator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Sunday, July 18, 1-4 p.m.
Third Sunday Funday: Kid Detectives
Explore art to find clues about the lives of kids long ago, hear stories about kids from the past, make an old-fashioned craft, and play summertime games. Learn about real detective work from the Youth Services Officer of the Cincinnati Police Department. Bring the whole family to the Taft Museum of Art on the third Sunday of each month this summer to explore, create, and play, all for FREE. Activities including self-guided tours, art-making, storytelling, and games are ongoing, so stop in when you have time and stay as long as you like. All programs are FREE. No reservations taken. For more information, call (513) 684-4524
Sponsor: The Charles H. Dater Foundation
Free Sundays are made possible by a grant from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.
Wednesday, July 21, 12 p.m.
Taste of the Taft: Heroes of Ohio
Suspense and humor mingle in tales from the rich fabric of Ohio's history and folklore as master storyteller Rick Sowash tells the tales of Ohioans who made a difference in the lives of others. This annual series of luncheon lectures returns with a lineup of local luminaries giving presentations on history, culture, and society under the tent on the terrace. Box lunch is included. Reservations are required. Cost for this program is $22 . Group rate for 8 or more is $17. Call (513) 684-4515 or register online at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taste.php
Sponsor: Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Western & Southern Financial Group
Wednesdays, July 21, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: A Question of Perspective: Mauve's Changing Pasture
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, July 22, 6 p.m.
Shutterbugs in Cinema: Motion Pictures and Still Photographers:
The Bridges of Madison County, 1995 (135 mintues)
Directed by Clint Eastwood, starring Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep
A National Geographic photographer happens into the life of a lonely farm wife while her family is away. Inspired by the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, enjoy three classic films in different genres. Explores how life and art intersect through the lens of the still photographer as leading man. Cincinnati Public Radio film critic Larry Thomas will introduce each movie and lead a discussion afterward. The exhibition will be open until each film begins. Film screenings are free. Optional box dinner is available for $12 with advance purchase. Reservations are recommended. Information: (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, July 24, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition. Free with museum admission, no reservations are taken.
Sunday, July 25, 2 p.m.
Taft Sessions: Wake the Bear
Acoustic music returns to the Taft Museum of Art this summer with free concerts under the tent in the garden. Born in the second bedroom of his Cincinnati home, Scott Cunningham began recording as Wake the Bear in 2004. From aliens, chickens, and surviving the ’80s—to a dog, a god, and a good many drinks—the music wears its heart on its sleeve, without the cheese. The sound weaves assorted keyboards, guitars, rhythms, ’70s women‘s choirs, gin-soaked vocals and dog whines. Wake the Bear’s third album, Player Piano, is entirely inspired by the Kurt Vonnegut novel of the same name. Local indie bands come out of the bars and into the daylight to share their tunes. Come early for lunch and a Highlights of the Taft tour. Stay late to experience the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945. This concert is free, no reservations are taken. Cash bar and light snacks available. For information, call (513) 684-4526 or go online to www.taftmuseum.org
Media sponsors: WNKU, CityBeat
Wednesdays, July 28, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: I'm Not Lion: A Pair of Chinese Temple Guardians
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike St., in downtown Cincinnati. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and free for children under 18. The museum is free to all on Sundays. Call 513-241-0343 or visit the website at www.taftmuseum.org for additional information.
Taft Museum of Art Calendar of Events June 2010
Calendar of Event - June 2010
Special Exhibitions
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
Though August 8
The photographs of the pictorialist movement are among the most spectacular works in the medium’s history. The works in this exhibition rival paintings with expertly crafted, one-of-a-kind images. Included are works from George Eastman House by Julia Margaret Cameron, Frederick Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, Edward Steichen, and early works by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.
Pictorialism was both a movement and a style of photography that produced spectacular images over a century’s time. When photography was invented in the early part of the 19th century, most people considered it a faddish mechanical trick and very far from fine art. Some early photographers, however, sought to elevate the medium to the status of painting by emulating the compositions, symbols, visual effects, and moods of painting. This international movement peaked in the years between 1895 and 1925.
Tracing this influential vein of photography, this exhibition includes 118 vintage masterpieces from well-known photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Gertrude Käsebier, and Heinrich Kühn. Also featured are surprising early works by such photographers as Edward Weston, Imogene Cunningham, and Ansel Adams, who are widely known as modernists but began as pictorialists.
TruthBeauty is a smaller version of the exhibition by the same name produced by Vancouver Art Gallery. Both versions were curated by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, from which the works in the exhibition were selected.
Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections
Through July 25
Along with two major oil paintings, one from early in his career and one late, the Taft Museum of Art holds ten watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851). Spanning the first half of the 19th century, these watercolors depict landscapes of Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Italy. Historically, they broke new ground in the artistic fields of book illustration, travel views, and the watercolor medium itself.
Programs & Events
Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
Highlights of the Taft
After lunch or before a concert on Sunday afternoons, join a Taft docent for a tour of the highlights of the Museum’s world-renowned collection. Free with Museum admission. No reservations are taken. For information call (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, June 5, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Lynne Ambrosini, Chief Curator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Sunday, June 6, 2–4 p.m., Essex Studios, Walnut Hills
Art in the Afternoon: Trish Weeks, landscape painter
A graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Weeks built a successful career as an interior designer before embarking on a career in painting. Her landscape paintings reflect her interest in creating a vibrant, colorful, tactile experience that has been described as “a dance with color.” She has received awards in numerous local, regional, and national exhibitions and has been represented by galleries in Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, and New Mexico. Now in its eighth season, this series of Sunday-afternoon salons features local artists offering insights into their careers and work as they share their passions with their audience. Addresses and directions to specific venues will be provided upon registration. Cost for this session is $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Presented by the Robert S. Duncanson Society
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Fifth Third Bank
Sunday, June 6, 2 p.m.
Chamber Music Series: Italian Festival
The 57th-annual Chamber Music Series wraps up with a special concert presented outdoors under the tent on the terrace. Dottie Davis, Richard Perotsky, Sylvia Mitchell, and others perform the music of an Italian festival. In every nation, there are tunes that most citizens recognize. In Italy, there are about 20 such tunes, which are published in a folder to mark special celebrations such as weddings. The players in the community get out their instruments, and everybody joins in. This “Italian” band features violin, mandolin, clarinet, trumpet, and piano and will warm up the audience with waltzes, ballads, popular songs, and even a tarantella. This concert is FREE. No reservations are taken. For information, call (513) 684-4515.
Sponsor: The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation
Fine Arts Fund Partner: American Financial Group & Related Entities
Organized in cooperation with the Cincinnati Musicians’ Association
Wednesdays, June 9, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: European Vacation: Fortuny’s Arab Guard
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Friday, June 11, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Lynne Ambrosini, Chief Curator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum
Saturday, June 12, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Taft Museum of Art
Families Create: Photo Fun in the Sun
Visit the TruthBeauty photography exhibition and use daylight to create your own unique photographs on special paper. Explore the world of art through gallery visits and activities designed for children ages 5–12 and adults to learn, create, interact, and have fun together. Cost for each program: $8 for members and Cincinnati Arts Association members, $12 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission) Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online www.taftmuseum.org/familiescreate.htm
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation. Weston Art Gallery Families Create! Program Sponsor: Whitney and Phillip Long. Fine Arts Fund Partner: Duke Energy Corp.
Saturday, June 12, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition.
Sunday, June 13, 2–4 p.m., Mount Healthy
Art in the Afternoon Cynthia Lockhart, fiber artist
With a career spanning 29 years in art, design, and academia, Lockhart creates dynamic and spirited art quilts emphasizing color, shape, and texture and combines diverse influences from nature to fashion and African art. She exhibits nationally and internationally in museums and galleries. A native of Cincinnati, she holds a master’s degree in design from the University of Cincinnati, where she is professor of professional practice and teaches cooperative education courses for fashion design and product development students. Now in its eighth season, this series of Sunday-afternoon salons features local artists offering insights into their careers and work as they share their passions with their audience. Addresses and directions to specific venues will be provided upon registration. Cost for this session is $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Presented by the Robert S. Duncanson Society
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Fifth Third Bank
Wednesdays, June 16, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Father’s Day: Meet the Taft and Sinton Dads
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Saturday, June 19, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition.
Sunday, June 20, 1–4 p.m.
Third Sunday Funday: Dad’s Day Out
Dad doesn't need another tie or socket set, so how about giving him some quality time? Look for dads in art, hear some stories about funny or famous dads, get your family picture taken and make an artistic frame, and play miniature golf in the garden. Bring the whole family to the Taft Museum of Art on the third Sunday of each month this summer to explore, create, and play, all for free! Activities including self-guided tours, art-making, storytelling, and games are ongoing, so stop in when you have time and stay as long as you like.
These programs are FREE. No reservations taken. For more information, call (513) 684-4524
Sponsor: The Charles H. Dater Foundation
Free Sundays are made possible by a grant from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.
Wednesdays, June 23, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Bird Watching: Chinese Ewer in the Shape of a Phoenix
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, June 24, 6 p.m.
Shutterbugs in Cinema: Motion Pictures and Still Photographers:
Rear Window, 1954 (112 minutes)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors and becomes convinced that one of them has committed murder. Inspired by the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, enjoy three classic films in different genres. Explores how life and art intersect through the lens of the still photographer as leading man. Cincinnati Public Radio film critic Larry Thomas will introduce each movie and lead a discussion afterward. The exhibition will be open until each film begins. Film screenings are free. Optional box dinner is available for $12 with advance purchase. Reservations are recommended. Information: (513) 684-4515.
June 26, Weston Art Gallery, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Families Create! The Diorama in My Head
Meet the Weston Art Gallery’s Docentitos who will give you a tour of the exhibition, The House in My Head, and then create a fantastic diorama influenced by your own out-of–this-world musings. Explore the world of art through gallery visits and activities designed for children ages 5–12 and adults to learn, create, interact, and have fun together. Cost for each program: $8 for members and Cincinnati Arts Association members, $12 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online www.taftmuseum.org/familiescreate.htm
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation. Weston Art Gallery Families Create! Program Sponsor: Whitney and Phillip Long. Fine Arts Fund Partner: Duke Energy Corp.
Saturday, June 26, 2010, 1–3 p.m.
Teen Digital Photography Workshop
Learn ways to enhance your photographs and find out about editing software. Participants will visit the special exhibition TruthBeauty and take photographs using elements of composition and other techniques seen in the exhibition. Following a critique session, participants will learn how the editing software Picasa can improve their final images.
Please bring a fully charged digital camera, a blank memory card, a card reader, and your imagination! Instructor Lisa Britton is a professional photographer who teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Reservations required. Call (513) 684-4513 or visit http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/studioprograms.php
Saturday, June 26, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition.
Sunday, June 27, 2–4 p.m., Taft Museum of Art
Art in the Afternoon: Lillian Herbert, hair artist
A professional hair stylist for more than 30 years, Herbert uses clippings from her clients’ hair—collected over the past 25 years and representing a variety of ages and lifestyles—to create her images. For Herbert, the works serve as a tribute to her clients and express themes of love, marriage, tragedy, childbirth, success, and most importantly friendship. She has participated in exhibitions and in various arts events in the Dayton (OH) area. Now in its eighth season, this series of Sunday-afternoon salons features local artists offering insights into their careers and work as they share their passions with their audience. Addresses and directions to specific venues will be provided upon registration. Cost for this session is $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Presented by the Robert S. Duncanson Society
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Fifth Third Bank
Wednesday, June 30, 12 p.m.
Taste of the Taft: On the Road Again
Ceci Wiselogel, Legend Lore Presenter
Reminisce about the early days of motoring from the 1920s to the ‘60s, reading the signs and visiting the roadside attractions along the way. The annual Taste of the Taft summer series of luncheon lectures moves to Wednesdays with a lineup of local luminaries making presentations on art, culture, history, and society. Programs take place under the tent on the terrace and include a box lunch. Feel free to come at 11:30 if you would like to eat before the program begins. Cost for this program is $22, includes Museum admission. Group rate for 8 or more: $17 per person. Reservations are required at least four days in advance. Call (513) 684-4515 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Sponsor: Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Western & Southern Financial Group
Wednesdays, June 30, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Twilight: Eclipse: Raise a Cup from Transylvania
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike St., in downtown Cincinnati. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and free for children under 18. The museum is free to all on Sundays. Call 513-241-0343 or visit the website at www.taftmuseum.org for additional information.
Special Exhibitions
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
Though August 8
The photographs of the pictorialist movement are among the most spectacular works in the medium’s history. The works in this exhibition rival paintings with expertly crafted, one-of-a-kind images. Included are works from George Eastman House by Julia Margaret Cameron, Frederick Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White, Edward Steichen, and early works by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.
Pictorialism was both a movement and a style of photography that produced spectacular images over a century’s time. When photography was invented in the early part of the 19th century, most people considered it a faddish mechanical trick and very far from fine art. Some early photographers, however, sought to elevate the medium to the status of painting by emulating the compositions, symbols, visual effects, and moods of painting. This international movement peaked in the years between 1895 and 1925.
Tracing this influential vein of photography, this exhibition includes 118 vintage masterpieces from well-known photographers such as Alvin Langdon Coburn, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Gertrude Käsebier, and Heinrich Kühn. Also featured are surprising early works by such photographers as Edward Weston, Imogene Cunningham, and Ansel Adams, who are widely known as modernists but began as pictorialists.
TruthBeauty is a smaller version of the exhibition by the same name produced by Vancouver Art Gallery. Both versions were curated by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, from which the works in the exhibition were selected.
Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections
Through July 25
Along with two major oil paintings, one from early in his career and one late, the Taft Museum of Art holds ten watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851). Spanning the first half of the 19th century, these watercolors depict landscapes of Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Italy. Historically, they broke new ground in the artistic fields of book illustration, travel views, and the watercolor medium itself.
Programs & Events
Sundays, 1:30 p.m.
Highlights of the Taft
After lunch or before a concert on Sunday afternoons, join a Taft docent for a tour of the highlights of the Museum’s world-renowned collection. Free with Museum admission. No reservations are taken. For information call (513) 684-4515.
Saturday, June 5, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Lynne Ambrosini, Chief Curator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum admission. RSVP: (513) 684-4515.
Sunday, June 6, 2–4 p.m., Essex Studios, Walnut Hills
Art in the Afternoon: Trish Weeks, landscape painter
A graduate of the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning, Weeks built a successful career as an interior designer before embarking on a career in painting. Her landscape paintings reflect her interest in creating a vibrant, colorful, tactile experience that has been described as “a dance with color.” She has received awards in numerous local, regional, and national exhibitions and has been represented by galleries in Ohio, Kentucky, South Carolina, and New Mexico. Now in its eighth season, this series of Sunday-afternoon salons features local artists offering insights into their careers and work as they share their passions with their audience. Addresses and directions to specific venues will be provided upon registration. Cost for this session is $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Presented by the Robert S. Duncanson Society
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Fifth Third Bank
Sunday, June 6, 2 p.m.
Chamber Music Series: Italian Festival
The 57th-annual Chamber Music Series wraps up with a special concert presented outdoors under the tent on the terrace. Dottie Davis, Richard Perotsky, Sylvia Mitchell, and others perform the music of an Italian festival. In every nation, there are tunes that most citizens recognize. In Italy, there are about 20 such tunes, which are published in a folder to mark special celebrations such as weddings. The players in the community get out their instruments, and everybody joins in. This “Italian” band features violin, mandolin, clarinet, trumpet, and piano and will warm up the audience with waltzes, ballads, popular songs, and even a tarantella. This concert is FREE. No reservations are taken. For information, call (513) 684-4515.
Sponsor: The Wohlgemuth Herschede Foundation
Fine Arts Fund Partner: American Financial Group & Related Entities
Organized in cooperation with the Cincinnati Musicians’ Association
Wednesdays, June 9, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: European Vacation: Fortuny’s Arab Guard
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Friday, June 11, 1:30 p.m.
Gallery Talk: TruthBeauty with Lynne Ambrosini, Chief Curator
Talk a special walk through the exhibition Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945 with the curator. Free with Museum
Saturday, June 12, 10 a.m.–12 p.m., Taft Museum of Art
Families Create: Photo Fun in the Sun
Visit the TruthBeauty photography exhibition and use daylight to create your own unique photographs on special paper. Explore the world of art through gallery visits and activities designed for children ages 5–12 and adults to learn, create, interact, and have fun together. Cost for each program: $8 for members and Cincinnati Arts Association members, $12 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission) Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online www.taftmuseum.org/familiescreate.htm
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation. Weston Art Gallery Families Create! Program Sponsor: Whitney and Phillip Long. Fine Arts Fund Partner: Duke Energy Corp.
Saturday, June 12, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition.
Sunday, June 13, 2–4 p.m., Mount Healthy
Art in the Afternoon Cynthia Lockhart, fiber artist
With a career spanning 29 years in art, design, and academia, Lockhart creates dynamic and spirited art quilts emphasizing color, shape, and texture and combines diverse influences from nature to fashion and African art. She exhibits nationally and internationally in museums and galleries. A native of Cincinnati, she holds a master’s degree in design from the University of Cincinnati, where she is professor of professional practice and teaches cooperative education courses for fashion design and product development students. Now in its eighth season, this series of Sunday-afternoon salons features local artists offering insights into their careers and work as they share their passions with their audience. Addresses and directions to specific venues will be provided upon registration. Cost for this session is $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Presented by the Robert S. Duncanson Society
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Fifth Third Bank
Wednesdays, June 16, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Father’s Day: Meet the Taft and Sinton Dads
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Saturday, June 19, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition.
Sunday, June 20, 1–4 p.m.
Third Sunday Funday: Dad’s Day Out
Dad doesn't need another tie or socket set, so how about giving him some quality time? Look for dads in art, hear some stories about funny or famous dads, get your family picture taken and make an artistic frame, and play miniature golf in the garden. Bring the whole family to the Taft Museum of Art on the third Sunday of each month this summer to explore, create, and play, all for free! Activities including self-guided tours, art-making, storytelling, and games are ongoing, so stop in when you have time and stay as long as you like.
These programs are FREE. No reservations taken. For more information, call (513) 684-4524
Sponsor: The Charles H. Dater Foundation
Free Sundays are made possible by a grant from the Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation.
Wednesdays, June 23, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Bird Watching: Chinese Ewer in the Shape of a Phoenix
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
Thursday, June 24, 6 p.m.
Shutterbugs in Cinema: Motion Pictures and Still Photographers:
Rear Window, 1954 (112 minutes)
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors and becomes convinced that one of them has committed murder. Inspired by the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, enjoy three classic films in different genres. Explores how life and art intersect through the lens of the still photographer as leading man. Cincinnati Public Radio film critic Larry Thomas will introduce each movie and lead a discussion afterward. The exhibition will be open until each film begins. Film screenings are free. Optional box dinner is available for $12 with advance purchase. Reservations are recommended. Information: (513) 684-4515.
June 26, Weston Art Gallery, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Families Create! The Diorama in My Head
Meet the Weston Art Gallery’s Docentitos who will give you a tour of the exhibition, The House in My Head, and then create a fantastic diorama influenced by your own out-of–this-world musings. Explore the world of art through gallery visits and activities designed for children ages 5–12 and adults to learn, create, interact, and have fun together. Cost for each program: $8 for members and Cincinnati Arts Association members, $12 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online www.taftmuseum.org/familiescreate.htm
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation. Weston Art Gallery Families Create! Program Sponsor: Whitney and Phillip Long. Fine Arts Fund Partner: Duke Energy Corp.
Saturday, June 26, 2010, 1–3 p.m.
Teen Digital Photography Workshop
Learn ways to enhance your photographs and find out about editing software. Participants will visit the special exhibition TruthBeauty and take photographs using elements of composition and other techniques seen in the exhibition. Following a critique session, participants will learn how the editing software Picasa can improve their final images.
Please bring a fully charged digital camera, a blank memory card, a card reader, and your imagination! Instructor Lisa Britton is a professional photographer who teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Reservations required. Call (513) 684-4513 or visit http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/studioprograms.php
Saturday, June 26, 1:30 p.m.
Drop-in Tour: TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845–1945
On Saturday afternoons, Taft docents will lead a tour of this special exhibition.
Sunday, June 27, 2–4 p.m., Taft Museum of Art
Art in the Afternoon: Lillian Herbert, hair artist
A professional hair stylist for more than 30 years, Herbert uses clippings from her clients’ hair—collected over the past 25 years and representing a variety of ages and lifestyles—to create her images. For Herbert, the works serve as a tribute to her clients and express themes of love, marriage, tragedy, childbirth, success, and most importantly friendship. She has participated in exhibitions and in various arts events in the Dayton (OH) area. Now in its eighth season, this series of Sunday-afternoon salons features local artists offering insights into their careers and work as they share their passions with their audience. Addresses and directions to specific venues will be provided upon registration. Cost for this session is $12 for members, $15 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Presented by the Robert S. Duncanson Society
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Fifth Third Bank
Wednesday, June 30, 12 p.m.
Taste of the Taft: On the Road Again
Ceci Wiselogel, Legend Lore Presenter
Reminisce about the early days of motoring from the 1920s to the ‘60s, reading the signs and visiting the roadside attractions along the way. The annual Taste of the Taft summer series of luncheon lectures moves to Wednesdays with a lineup of local luminaries making presentations on art, culture, history, and society. Programs take place under the tent on the terrace and include a box lunch. Feel free to come at 11:30 if you would like to eat before the program begins. Cost for this program is $22, includes Museum admission. Group rate for 8 or more: $17 per person. Reservations are required at least four days in advance. Call (513) 684-4515 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org
Sponsor: Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series
Fine Arts Fund Partner: Western & Southern Financial Group
Wednesdays, June 30, 12:45 p.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Taft in 10: Twilight: Eclipse: Raise a Cup from Transylvania
Come for lunch—stay for a quick (sound) bite in the galleries. Enjoy an informal ten-minute conversation every Wednesday as we serve up some of the Museum’s many masterpieces as well as some lesser-known nibbles. Free with Museum admission or lunch in the café. Find more information at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/taftinten.php.
The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike St., in downtown Cincinnati. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and free for children under 18. The museum is free to all on Sundays. Call 513-241-0343 or visit the website at www.taftmuseum.org for additional information.
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Taft Museum of Art Announces 2010-11 Exhibition Season
Mixed media, including works in fabric, glass, and paper, create an intriguing exploration of art movements throughout history
Images available for download at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/201011img.php
The upcoming exhibition season at the Taft Museum of Art explores artists’ responses to the world around through a variety of different media, from women’s handcrafts that celebrated life’s turning points to innovative techniques used to create elaborate stained glass windows. Even with the more traditional media, political satire is carefully etched on paper and a brash and a bold new style of painting challenged contemporary opinions.
“We chose these exhibitions with an eye toward our long range plan goals – particularly of diversifying and increasing attendance and membership,” says Deborah Emont Scott, director/CEO of the Taft Museum of Art. “The media are so different, the subject matter and history of the works so varied, I’m sure people will want to come back to experience each show, and the Taft, throughout the year.”
The season begins with intricate, hand-cut works from artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as one from the 21st. The Keystone Contemporary series returns with Paperwork. Inspired by historical decoration, wallpaper, and draperies, Cincinnati artist Kristine Donnelly’s laborious hand-cutting transforms screen-printed paper into delicate structures that test the physical tolerance of the material. By printing, cutting, rolling, stretching, and pinning, she pushes paper to its limits.
For this exhibition, Donnelly responded to the interior design of the Taft’s historic house. She has also incorporated abstract details of the Taft’s interior architecture and curtain designs into her new work.
Donnelly’s exhibition coincides with American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780–1850, an uncommon quilt exhibition.
“Women made these quilts for their own homes or as gifts for friends, not simply to keep warm. Even though inexpensive blankets or bedspreads are easily acquired today, there are still a lot of people quilting,“ says Nancy Huth, the in-house curator for the exhibition and the Taft’s curator of education. “These artists could be likened to many contemporary quilters or crafters, who create out of a love of the craft.”
During this country’s early decades, inventive women created some of the largest and most colorful quilts ever made in America. These artists carefully cut foliage, flowers, birds, and animals from costly printed, polished cotton, called chintz. With tiny stitches, the quilters painstakingly applied these colorful fabric pieces to neutral cotton backgrounds to craft quilts that were both status symbols and decorative showpieces.
For those who feel a secret empathy with Scrooge and the Grinch, the Taft offers an alternative to Yuletide’s good cheer during the winter. The full set of 18th-century Spanish artist Francisco Goya’s 80 haunting images from Los Caprichos (“The Whims” or “The Fantasies,” published in 1799) confront human hypocrisy, pretense, fear, and irrationality, picturing them in every conceivable form. Goya’s singularly original visions of monsters, specters, corpses, and other bitter or callous beings enact challenges to authority of all kinds, including that of the church and state, while still showing precision and detail.
“I think visitors will find the images in Los Caprichos, though created at the end of the 1700s, incredibly relevant to the current state of the world,” says Scott. “Goya created these controversial works in a time of economic crisis in Spain. He also articulated his political liberalism through his work, questioning the Church, politicians, and other figures of authority.”
If Santa Claus, feather trees, and vintage toys are more to your liking, Antique Christmas at the Taft Museum of Art will also be on view during the holidays. With decorations and programs for the whole family, Antique Christmas is a delight for children of all ages. In the Keystone Gallery, guests will have a chance to see The Colors of Christmas: Victorian Paper Decorations. A favorite craft material of the Victorian era, “chromolithographic scraps,” were used to make homemade ornaments and decorations.
“We are so lucky to have the generous lenders for Antique Christmas,” says Scott. “This year will be great fun for the whole family. Along with hand-blown Italian glass ornaments from the 1940s this year, we’ll have a display of Noah’s Ark toys, complete with animal pairs. We hope the Taft will be a holiday destination for families from around the Tristate.”
Spring begins a bit early in 2011, whenThe American Impressionists in the Garden opens. Bringing together brilliantly colored paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition features 40 pictures of European and American gardens created by American Impressionists and four bronze sculptures for gardens by American sculptors.
“From Giverny to Boston and Charleston, American painters captured the sensuous pleasures to be found in gardens, ornamenting their canvases with lush blossoms in fuchsia, persimmon, and daffodil yellow,” says Lynne Ambrosini, the Taft’s chief curator.
The interactions between the two artistic fields of gardening and painting make up the subject of this exhibition. Some celebrated American artists included in the exhibition are John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Gari Melchers, Ernest Lawson, and Frederick Frieseke.
For its summer show in 2011, The Taft will host a sort of homecoming with In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows. The seven 8-foot-high stained-glass windows created by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the late 1890s were a commission for a Cincinnati church.
“The Taft will recreate some of the original appearance of the Cincinnati church for which the Tiffany windows were created,” says Ambrosini. “Local congregations and private owners are generously lending some pieces of the richly-patterned, 19th-century art-carved furniture by the Fry family, greatly enhancing the display here.”
“These exhibitions are all from such vastly different media,” says Scott. It’s fantastic to be able to show a real breadth of work, all from different eras and art movements, at the Taft in the coming months.”
August 6–October 24, 2010
Keystone Contemporary: Paperwork: Kristine Donnelly
Like peeling wallpaper in an old house, Kristine Donnelly’s work both conceals and reveals itself, encouraging viewers to examine the intricate layers. “I want my installations and sculptures to challenge the notion that decoration belongs in the background,” she says.
A Cincinnati native, Donnelly graduated with a master of fine arts and a master of arts in art education from the University of Cincinnati in 2009 and received a Summerfair Individual Artist grant the same year. In 2007, she was artist-in-residence at Open Studios in Prague, Czech Republic, funded by a Wolfstein Travel Fellowship from the UC College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She earned her bachelor of fine arts in painting and bachelor of arts in art history from Indiana University in 2003.
Donnelly currently designs art programs for children and families at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally, most recently at Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, the University of Tennessee, and Northern Kentucky University.
August 28–November 7, 2010
American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780–1850
What often comes to mind when we think of quilts is patchwork. But in this country’s early decades, inventive quilters carefully cut foliage, flowers, birds, and animals from costly printed, polished cotton, called chintz, and with tiny stitches, painstakingly applied these colorful fabric pieces to neutral cotton backgrounds. Embellishing and quilting, these artists created some of the largest and most colorful quilts ever made in America. The exhibition American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780–1850, features 20 of these distinctive quilts. Both status symbols and decorative showpieces, quilts such as these might well have been owned by the early inhabitants of the Pike Street home in Cincinnati that later became the Taft Museum of Art. This exhibition was organized by the International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
November 5, 2010–January 9, 2011
Antique Christmas at the Taft Museum of Art
Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft House
The Taft offers “something old, something new” this year during the holidays, with its always-changing display of vintage Christmas trees, ornaments, and toys from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Upon entering the museum galleries, visitors will find a charming dollhouse along with a selection of Noah’s Ark toys complete with animals in pair. Also new this year will be a miniature storefront decorated for the holidays and a display of Italian glass ornaments made in the 1940s. The traditional feather trees will include displays devoted to butterfly, flower, and angel ornaments. Guests can reminisce or discover the artfully crafted Christmas decorations of earlier generations.
November 5, 2010—January 9, 2011
The Colors of Christmas: Victorian Paper Decorations
Keystone Gallery
Discover a favorite craft material of the Victorian era, known by the tongue-twisting name of “chromolithographic scraps.” These brilliantly colored, shiny, printed Christmas cut-outs served as the stickers of their time, inspiring 19th- and early 20th-century homemade ornaments and decorations. Visitors can see ten or more exceptionally large and fine examples of “scraps”; those on view in the Keystone Gallery equal the scale of small paintings.
December 3, 2010–January 30, 2011
Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos
Los Caprichos are likely the great Spanish artist’s most influential works and continue to inspire artists to this day. As both prints and images, theyare decades ahead of their time. Goya pioneered astonishingly innovative etching techniques, visual forms, and artistic themes, anticipating the later movements known as Realism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Surrealism.
The etchings on view are from an early first edition, one of four sets acquired directly from Goya, and belong now to an American private collector. The exhibition is organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California, in association with Deneberg Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Goya (1746–1826) is one of the world’s greatest artists, as famous for portraits that seemingly penetrate his sitters’ souls as he is for portrayals of the brutality of the Napoleonic Wars in Spain (1808–14). The Taft Museum of Art owns an important oil portrait by Goya, Queen Maria Luisa of Spain, of about 1800.
January 21 – April 17, 2011
Keystone Contemporary
Twice each year, the Taft highlights work by an emerging Tristate artist.
February 18–May 15, 2011
The American Impressionists in the Garden
American impressionist painters turned their attention to the garden, finding it an ideal subject for the study of light and color in landscape, and they were not alone. This exhibition explores the importance of gardens in American art and society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Appreciated for their variations of form, color, style, and silhouette, gardens constituted a key cultural interest of the period. The vogue for gardening expressed itself in the birth of garden clubs, horticultural and hobbyist publications, the establishment of civic and private gardens, new modes of garden design. The relationships between the gardening movement and the fine arts of painting and sculpture is the focus of this exhibition, which is organized by the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee.
April 1–June 12, 2011
Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections
Keystone Gallery
Along with two major oil paintings, one from early in his career and one late, the Taft Museum of Art holds ten watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851). Spanning the first half of the 19th century, these watercolors depict landscapes of Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Italy. Historically, they broke new ground in the artistic fields of book illustration, travel views, and the watercolor medium itself.
June 10–August 14, 2011
In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows
Seven eight-foot-high stained-glass lancet windows represent seven angels, the whole created by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the late 1890s as a commission for a Swedenborgian church in Cincinnati. In 1903 Louis Comfort Tiffany and his studio completed and installed a set of seven figurative windows in the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem at the corner of Oak Street and Winslow Avenue in Cincinnati. The church was demolished in 1964 to make way for Interstate 71, and parishioners saved the windows, storing them in various locations throughout Ohio. In 1991, they were purchased for the Swedenborgian church at Temonos, near Philadelphia. They are on a national tour to help pay for their conservation and upkeep. The windows are exquisite examples of Tiffany’s glass art. Tiffany revived old medieval and Renaissance methods of glass painting and invented many new techniques of working with glass: making opalescent, rolled, textured, and flashed glass, among other methods. The windows embody the American Renaissance, a blossoming of the arts and decorative arts between 1876, the year of the American centennial, and 1914. Further, as a site-specific installation for a Cincinnati church, they belong to the history of our region. This exhibition is organized by In Company with Angels, Inc.
June 17–July 31, 2011
Small Paintings
Keystone Gallery
Treasures can as often be found in small frames as in large ones. A group of diminutive oil paintings from the Taft Museum of Art and Cincinnati Art Museum offers an intimate experience of collecting tastes at the turn of the 20th century. Featured are tiny paintings by 19th-century artists from France, Holland, Belgium, and the United States.
The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike St., in downtown Cincinnati. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and free for children under 18. The museum is free to all on Sundays. Call 513-241-0343 or visit the website at www.taftmuseum.org for additional information.
Images available for download at http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/201011img.php
The upcoming exhibition season at the Taft Museum of Art explores artists’ responses to the world around through a variety of different media, from women’s handcrafts that celebrated life’s turning points to innovative techniques used to create elaborate stained glass windows. Even with the more traditional media, political satire is carefully etched on paper and a brash and a bold new style of painting challenged contemporary opinions.
“We chose these exhibitions with an eye toward our long range plan goals – particularly of diversifying and increasing attendance and membership,” says Deborah Emont Scott, director/CEO of the Taft Museum of Art. “The media are so different, the subject matter and history of the works so varied, I’m sure people will want to come back to experience each show, and the Taft, throughout the year.”
The season begins with intricate, hand-cut works from artists of the 18th and 19th centuries, as well as one from the 21st. The Keystone Contemporary series returns with Paperwork. Inspired by historical decoration, wallpaper, and draperies, Cincinnati artist Kristine Donnelly’s laborious hand-cutting transforms screen-printed paper into delicate structures that test the physical tolerance of the material. By printing, cutting, rolling, stretching, and pinning, she pushes paper to its limits.
For this exhibition, Donnelly responded to the interior design of the Taft’s historic house. She has also incorporated abstract details of the Taft’s interior architecture and curtain designs into her new work.
Donnelly’s exhibition coincides with American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780–1850, an uncommon quilt exhibition.
“Women made these quilts for their own homes or as gifts for friends, not simply to keep warm. Even though inexpensive blankets or bedspreads are easily acquired today, there are still a lot of people quilting,“ says Nancy Huth, the in-house curator for the exhibition and the Taft’s curator of education. “These artists could be likened to many contemporary quilters or crafters, who create out of a love of the craft.”
During this country’s early decades, inventive women created some of the largest and most colorful quilts ever made in America. These artists carefully cut foliage, flowers, birds, and animals from costly printed, polished cotton, called chintz. With tiny stitches, the quilters painstakingly applied these colorful fabric pieces to neutral cotton backgrounds to craft quilts that were both status symbols and decorative showpieces.
For those who feel a secret empathy with Scrooge and the Grinch, the Taft offers an alternative to Yuletide’s good cheer during the winter. The full set of 18th-century Spanish artist Francisco Goya’s 80 haunting images from Los Caprichos (“The Whims” or “The Fantasies,” published in 1799) confront human hypocrisy, pretense, fear, and irrationality, picturing them in every conceivable form. Goya’s singularly original visions of monsters, specters, corpses, and other bitter or callous beings enact challenges to authority of all kinds, including that of the church and state, while still showing precision and detail.
“I think visitors will find the images in Los Caprichos, though created at the end of the 1700s, incredibly relevant to the current state of the world,” says Scott. “Goya created these controversial works in a time of economic crisis in Spain. He also articulated his political liberalism through his work, questioning the Church, politicians, and other figures of authority.”
If Santa Claus, feather trees, and vintage toys are more to your liking, Antique Christmas at the Taft Museum of Art will also be on view during the holidays. With decorations and programs for the whole family, Antique Christmas is a delight for children of all ages. In the Keystone Gallery, guests will have a chance to see The Colors of Christmas: Victorian Paper Decorations. A favorite craft material of the Victorian era, “chromolithographic scraps,” were used to make homemade ornaments and decorations.
“We are so lucky to have the generous lenders for Antique Christmas,” says Scott. “This year will be great fun for the whole family. Along with hand-blown Italian glass ornaments from the 1940s this year, we’ll have a display of Noah’s Ark toys, complete with animal pairs. We hope the Taft will be a holiday destination for families from around the Tristate.”
Spring begins a bit early in 2011, whenThe American Impressionists in the Garden opens. Bringing together brilliantly colored paintings of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the exhibition features 40 pictures of European and American gardens created by American Impressionists and four bronze sculptures for gardens by American sculptors.
“From Giverny to Boston and Charleston, American painters captured the sensuous pleasures to be found in gardens, ornamenting their canvases with lush blossoms in fuchsia, persimmon, and daffodil yellow,” says Lynne Ambrosini, the Taft’s chief curator.
The interactions between the two artistic fields of gardening and painting make up the subject of this exhibition. Some celebrated American artists included in the exhibition are John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Gari Melchers, Ernest Lawson, and Frederick Frieseke.
For its summer show in 2011, The Taft will host a sort of homecoming with In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows. The seven 8-foot-high stained-glass windows created by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the late 1890s were a commission for a Cincinnati church.
“The Taft will recreate some of the original appearance of the Cincinnati church for which the Tiffany windows were created,” says Ambrosini. “Local congregations and private owners are generously lending some pieces of the richly-patterned, 19th-century art-carved furniture by the Fry family, greatly enhancing the display here.”
“These exhibitions are all from such vastly different media,” says Scott. It’s fantastic to be able to show a real breadth of work, all from different eras and art movements, at the Taft in the coming months.”
August 6–October 24, 2010
Keystone Contemporary: Paperwork: Kristine Donnelly
Like peeling wallpaper in an old house, Kristine Donnelly’s work both conceals and reveals itself, encouraging viewers to examine the intricate layers. “I want my installations and sculptures to challenge the notion that decoration belongs in the background,” she says.
A Cincinnati native, Donnelly graduated with a master of fine arts and a master of arts in art education from the University of Cincinnati in 2009 and received a Summerfair Individual Artist grant the same year. In 2007, she was artist-in-residence at Open Studios in Prague, Czech Republic, funded by a Wolfstein Travel Fellowship from the UC College of Design, Architecture, Art, and Planning. She earned her bachelor of fine arts in painting and bachelor of arts in art history from Indiana University in 2003.
Donnelly currently designs art programs for children and families at the Cincinnati Art Museum. Her work has been exhibited regionally, nationally, and internationally, most recently at Carl Solway Gallery in Cincinnati, the University of Tennessee, and Northern Kentucky University.
August 28–November 7, 2010
American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780–1850
What often comes to mind when we think of quilts is patchwork. But in this country’s early decades, inventive quilters carefully cut foliage, flowers, birds, and animals from costly printed, polished cotton, called chintz, and with tiny stitches, painstakingly applied these colorful fabric pieces to neutral cotton backgrounds. Embellishing and quilting, these artists created some of the largest and most colorful quilts ever made in America. The exhibition American Elegance: Chintz Appliqué Quilts, 1780–1850, features 20 of these distinctive quilts. Both status symbols and decorative showpieces, quilts such as these might well have been owned by the early inhabitants of the Pike Street home in Cincinnati that later became the Taft Museum of Art. This exhibition was organized by the International Quilt Study Center, University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
November 5, 2010–January 9, 2011
Antique Christmas at the Taft Museum of Art
Baum-Longworth-Sinton-Taft House
The Taft offers “something old, something new” this year during the holidays, with its always-changing display of vintage Christmas trees, ornaments, and toys from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Upon entering the museum galleries, visitors will find a charming dollhouse along with a selection of Noah’s Ark toys complete with animals in pair. Also new this year will be a miniature storefront decorated for the holidays and a display of Italian glass ornaments made in the 1940s. The traditional feather trees will include displays devoted to butterfly, flower, and angel ornaments. Guests can reminisce or discover the artfully crafted Christmas decorations of earlier generations.
November 5, 2010—January 9, 2011
The Colors of Christmas: Victorian Paper Decorations
Keystone Gallery
Discover a favorite craft material of the Victorian era, known by the tongue-twisting name of “chromolithographic scraps.” These brilliantly colored, shiny, printed Christmas cut-outs served as the stickers of their time, inspiring 19th- and early 20th-century homemade ornaments and decorations. Visitors can see ten or more exceptionally large and fine examples of “scraps”; those on view in the Keystone Gallery equal the scale of small paintings.
December 3, 2010–January 30, 2011
Francisco Goya: Los Caprichos
Los Caprichos are likely the great Spanish artist’s most influential works and continue to inspire artists to this day. As both prints and images, theyare decades ahead of their time. Goya pioneered astonishingly innovative etching techniques, visual forms, and artistic themes, anticipating the later movements known as Realism, Post-Impressionism, Symbolism, and Surrealism.
The etchings on view are from an early first edition, one of four sets acquired directly from Goya, and belong now to an American private collector. The exhibition is organized by Landau Traveling Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California, in association with Deneberg Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California. Goya (1746–1826) is one of the world’s greatest artists, as famous for portraits that seemingly penetrate his sitters’ souls as he is for portrayals of the brutality of the Napoleonic Wars in Spain (1808–14). The Taft Museum of Art owns an important oil portrait by Goya, Queen Maria Luisa of Spain, of about 1800.
January 21 – April 17, 2011
Keystone Contemporary
Twice each year, the Taft highlights work by an emerging Tristate artist.
February 18–May 15, 2011
The American Impressionists in the Garden
American impressionist painters turned their attention to the garden, finding it an ideal subject for the study of light and color in landscape, and they were not alone. This exhibition explores the importance of gardens in American art and society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Appreciated for their variations of form, color, style, and silhouette, gardens constituted a key cultural interest of the period. The vogue for gardening expressed itself in the birth of garden clubs, horticultural and hobbyist publications, the establishment of civic and private gardens, new modes of garden design. The relationships between the gardening movement and the fine arts of painting and sculpture is the focus of this exhibition, which is organized by the Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art in Nashville, Tennessee.
April 1–June 12, 2011
Turner Watercolors from the Taft Collections
Keystone Gallery
Along with two major oil paintings, one from early in his career and one late, the Taft Museum of Art holds ten watercolors by Joseph Mallord William Turner (British, 1775–1851). Spanning the first half of the 19th century, these watercolors depict landscapes of Switzerland, Germany, England, Scotland, and Italy. Historically, they broke new ground in the artistic fields of book illustration, travel views, and the watercolor medium itself.
June 10–August 14, 2011
In Company with Angels: Seven Rediscovered Tiffany Windows
Seven eight-foot-high stained-glass lancet windows represent seven angels, the whole created by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the late 1890s as a commission for a Swedenborgian church in Cincinnati. In 1903 Louis Comfort Tiffany and his studio completed and installed a set of seven figurative windows in the Swedenborgian Church of the New Jerusalem at the corner of Oak Street and Winslow Avenue in Cincinnati. The church was demolished in 1964 to make way for Interstate 71, and parishioners saved the windows, storing them in various locations throughout Ohio. In 1991, they were purchased for the Swedenborgian church at Temonos, near Philadelphia. They are on a national tour to help pay for their conservation and upkeep. The windows are exquisite examples of Tiffany’s glass art. Tiffany revived old medieval and Renaissance methods of glass painting and invented many new techniques of working with glass: making opalescent, rolled, textured, and flashed glass, among other methods. The windows embody the American Renaissance, a blossoming of the arts and decorative arts between 1876, the year of the American centennial, and 1914. Further, as a site-specific installation for a Cincinnati church, they belong to the history of our region. This exhibition is organized by In Company with Angels, Inc.
June 17–July 31, 2011
Small Paintings
Keystone Gallery
Treasures can as often be found in small frames as in large ones. A group of diminutive oil paintings from the Taft Museum of Art and Cincinnati Art Museum offers an intimate experience of collecting tastes at the turn of the 20th century. Featured are tiny paintings by 19th-century artists from France, Holland, Belgium, and the United States.
The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike St., in downtown Cincinnati. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and free for children under 18. The museum is free to all on Sundays. Call 513-241-0343 or visit the website at www.taftmuseum.org for additional information.
Wednesday, May 19, 2010
Fair Trade Nicaraguan Pottery Exhibition
Come witness the beauty of Nicaraguan pottery and learn about fair trade practices as well. It will be hosted by OSU students traveling to Nicaragua in conjunction with Global Gallery.
Opening reception is Friday, May 21 from 7-10pm
& will be open Saturday, May 22 from 12-6pm
At the ClaySpace Gallery
831 South Front Street
Columbus, OH 43206
614) 449-8188
Opening reception is Friday, May 21 from 7-10pm
& will be open Saturday, May 22 from 12-6pm
At the ClaySpace Gallery
831 South Front Street
Columbus, OH 43206
614) 449-8188
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Art in the Park, June 13
Dear Artists and Performers,
Preservation Parks of Delaware County is excited to host our fifth annual ART IN THE PARK, a special event taking place Sunday, June 13, 2010 at Gallant Woods Preserve. We encourage you to save the date and invite you to participate in this special community event by displaying your art, performing a talent, demonstrating a craft, or offering merchandise for sale. Your original art and unique talents inspires and delights us all!
A registration form is attached to this e-mail.
What?
A celebration of performing and visual arts, demonstrations and a variety of art for sale.
When?
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Set up starts at 11:30
Event is open to the public from 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Where?
Gallant Woods Preserve
2151 Buttermilk Hill Road, Delaware, Ohio 43015
How to participate?
Please complete the registration form (email: saundras@preservationparks.com). If you also plan to offer merchandise for sale, please enclose a $25 registration check made payable to Friends of Preservation Parks. Mail registration to Saundra McBrearty, special event coordinator, 2656 Hogback Road, Sunbury, Ohio 43074. Registration deadline is June 4, 2010 and receipt of your check confirms your space at this year’s ART IN THE PARK. Vendors are responsible for bringing table and tent.
Looking forward to your participation!
Thank you,
Saundra McBrearty
Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator
Preservation Parks of Delaware County
(740) 524-8600, ext. 6
saundras@preservationparks.com
www.preservationparks.com
Preservation Parks of Delaware County is excited to host our fifth annual ART IN THE PARK, a special event taking place Sunday, June 13, 2010 at Gallant Woods Preserve. We encourage you to save the date and invite you to participate in this special community event by displaying your art, performing a talent, demonstrating a craft, or offering merchandise for sale. Your original art and unique talents inspires and delights us all!
A registration form is attached to this e-mail.
What?
A celebration of performing and visual arts, demonstrations and a variety of art for sale.
When?
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Set up starts at 11:30
Event is open to the public from 1:00-5:00 p.m.
Where?
Gallant Woods Preserve
2151 Buttermilk Hill Road, Delaware, Ohio 43015
How to participate?
Please complete the registration form (email: saundras@preservationparks.com). If you also plan to offer merchandise for sale, please enclose a $25 registration check made payable to Friends of Preservation Parks. Mail registration to Saundra McBrearty, special event coordinator, 2656 Hogback Road, Sunbury, Ohio 43074. Registration deadline is June 4, 2010 and receipt of your check confirms your space at this year’s ART IN THE PARK. Vendors are responsible for bringing table and tent.
Looking forward to your participation!
Thank you,
Saundra McBrearty
Special Event & Volunteer Coordinator
Preservation Parks of Delaware County
(740) 524-8600, ext. 6
saundras@preservationparks.com
www.preservationparks.com
Monday, May 17, 2010
5.16.10 BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
www.theBECAfoundation.org | www.BECAICAD.org | www.CurateThis.org
Current Artist, Architect + Designer Opportunities:
Receive Deadline July 15, 2010: CURATE THIS! 2010 - global exhibition of new art + new design - artist, architect + designer registration: http://www.curatethis.org/for-artists-and-designers.php
Highlights of interest to all artists, architects + designers:
In addition to the exhibition opportunities, an International Public Vote Award of $2,500 will be awarded to one artist, architect, designer, duo, group or collective. An online vote will occur from August 15 - 17, 2010. The BECA Foundation is also pleased to announce the upcoming launch of the CURATE THIS! online magazine featuring participating CURATE THIS! Artists, Architects + Designers from around the world. A special monthly feature will focus on 5 participating Artists, Architects and/or Designers.
Of particular interest to graphic designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture designers, accessory designers, architects and interior designers:
Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will be selecting 10 - 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating designers and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, 'CURATE THIS! 2010 - NEW DESIGN'.
Of particular interest to artists working in any media and in any discipline(s):
Helen Pheby, PhD, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, will be selecting 10 - 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating artists and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, 'CURATE THIS! 2010 - NEW ART'. YSP exhibits an ever-changing diverse collection of works and new projects within 500 acres of both indoor and outdoor galleries.
Receive Deadline September 1, 2010. Architecture + Design online portfolio reviews for future BECA ICAD development: http://www.becaicad.org/portfolio-reviews.php
Open Call to Art Organizations, Artspaces, Design and Studio Directors, professionally affiliated and independent Curators, Galleries, Universities, Museums, Festivals, Business Owners, Managers and Entrepreneurs
CURATE THIS! 2010 currently has 12 pARTicipating Venues located in various cities around the world and we'd like to also invite you to be a part of the inaugural global expansion of CURATE THIS! as a pARTicipating Venue. The BECA Foundation welcomes your pARTicipation in one of the most exciting international contemporary art + design exhibition and arts + cultural events of 2010. Further information may be found at: http://www.CurateThis.org. Information of particular interest to potential pARTicipating Venues may be viewed at: http://www.CurateThis.org/for-venues.php
Future Forward
Full exhibition is now viewable online at: http://www.becaicad.org/upcoming-exhibitions.php
The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the ‘FUTUREFORWARD’ exhibition of new art + new design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 - across from the Contemporary Arts Center through May 29, 2010. The exhibition highlights works that reveal an idea, message, contribution, warning or solution that if carried forward may profoundly impact the future – be it positively or negatively.
Dear Friends,
The timing and poignancy of this particular exhibition opening last weekend as we here in Louisiana begin to simultaneously experience what may be the worst environmental disaster/oil spill since the Exxon Valdez, makes an already important exhibition even that much more so. Our thoughts are with those families who have lost loved ones in the oil rig explosion as well as with the many families here in Louisiana and around the United States whose livelihoods will be adversely impacted as a result. The resulting damage to our fragile coastal ecosystem was preventable and as such is unacceptable but it is now, unfortunately, inevitable. We hope that each of you, viewing the exhibition online or in person here in New Orleans, takes away something you might be able turn into a positive action toward the future for yourself, your family and your community.
Sincerely,
Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough, Directors
This group exhibition features new work by Jonas Angelet, Nikkita Bhakta, Richard Elaver/Phil Renato/Dennis Dollens, Chris Esposito, Sayaka Ganz, Marc Holt, Yeji Jun and Molly Rogers.
The exhibition runs through May 29, 2010. Gallery hours are TH/FRI: 1pm - 6pm and SAT/SUN: 11am - 6pm. The full exhibition is now viewable online at: http://www.becaicad.org/upcoming-exhibitions.php
Artists receive 60% of sale proceeds and The BECA Foundation receives 40% of sale proceeds to help fund + further its international exhibition programming for the benefit of artists, designers and the public. Exhibition sponsorship opportunities are available for future exhibitions. Please email us to inquire. Thank you for supporting new art + new design + new ideas!
May 18, 2010 (5pm-7pm): Creative Connections Mixer
We've launched a new weekly mixer, Creative Connections, for resident New Orleanians and visiting guests to New Orleans who are part of the creative sector. You never know who will show up and who you might meet...
Visual + Performing Artists, if you're interested in connecting with materials suppliers, framers, fabricators, web designers, seeking studio/gallery space, marketing and other service consultants, etc. -
Architects, if you're interested in connecting with suppliers, designers, artists, builders, developers, etc. -
Designers, if you're interested in connecting with suppliers, photographers, printers, architects, studio directors and other service providers, seeking studio space, etc. -
Musicians + Performers, if you're interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, collaborators, consultants, venues, talent organizers, videographers, etc. -
Film + Video, if you're interested in connecting with equipment and other suppliers, talent/crew, collaborators, future partners and service providers, etc. -
Writers, Art + design enthusiasts and supporters of the creative sector, if you're interested in learning about what's new in the creative sector and how you might get involved in variety of new projects, etc. -
Administrators and directors, if you're interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, designers and service providers, etc. -
Visiting guests here in New Orleans, if you're interested in connecting with collaborators, future partners, artists, architects, designers, musicians and service providers, etc. -
And anyone else who may be involved in the creative sector: Please join us this Tuesday, May 18 2010 from 5pm - 7pm at BECA ICAD, 527 St. Joseph Street, across from the Contemporary Arts Center for some mixing, mingling and connecting. If you'd like to sponsor a future mixer or propose adding something to the organizing of the mixers, please email us with the subject line "mixer". Looking forward to seeing you there!
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
BECA: Bridge for Emerging Contemporary Art
527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130
www.theBECAfoundation.org
www.BECAICAD.org
www.CurateThis.org
Current Artist, Architect + Designer Opportunities:
Receive Deadline June 3, 2010: Double - Solo Exhibition Opportunity. Please Click Here for further information and to download submission guidelines + form.
Receive Deadline July 15, 2010: CURATE THIS! 2010 - global exhibition of new art + new design - artist + designer registration: http://www.curatethis.org/for-artists-and-designers.php
Highlights of interest to both artists + designers:
In addition to the international physical exhibition opportunities, an International Public Vote Award of $2,500 will be awarded to one artist, designer, duo, group or collective. An online vote will occur from August 15 - 17, 2010.
Of particular interest to graphic designers, industrial designers, fashion designers, furniture designers, accessory designers and architects/interior designers:
Ellen Lupton, Curator of Contemporary Design at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, will be selecting 10 - 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating designers and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, 'CURATE THIS! 2010 - NEW DESIGN'.
Of particular interest to artists working in any media and in any discipline(s):
Helen Pheby, PhD, Senior Curator at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, UK, will be selecting 10 - 20 CURATE THIS! 2010 participating artists and their works for inclusion in the special upcoming publication, 'CURATE THIS! 2010 - NEW ART'. YSP exhibits an ever-changing diverse collection of works and new projects within 500 acres of both indoor and outdoor galleries.
Receive Deadline September 1, 2010. Architecture + Design online portfolio reviews: http://www.becaicad.org/portfolio-reviews.php
Ongoing: Selection of Artist + Designer works for screenprinted art print editions: http://www.thebecafoundation.org/global/2010/04/upload-your-art-design.html
Ongoing: Selection of Artist + Designers works for the 'NEW WORKS' online series: http://www.becagallery.com/links.php?44704
Open only until the 100 available spaces are full: As a follow up to last year's highly successful non-juried 12x12x122 experimental exhibition, The BECA Foundation will present Lab AD this November at BECA ICAD. We have 100 automatic exhibition placements available. The non-juried exhibition will welcome exhibition registration from the first 100 artists or designers who sign up. Registration is being granted with BECA Foundation 'Artist/Designer Lab AD' founding membership. Please download complete information available at: http://www.becaicad.org/membership.php
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Open Call to Art Organizations, Artspaces, Design and Studio Directors, professionally affiliated and independent Curators, Galleries, Universities, Museums, Festivals, Business Owners, Managers and Entrepreneurs:
YOU'RE INVITED TO JOIN THE MOST EXCITING GLOBAL ART + DESIGN EXHIBITION and ARTS + CULTURAL EVENT of 2010!
JOIN US to help facilitate an experimental, cross-pollination of new ideas for creative innovation in diverse locations around the world!!
CURATE THIS! 2010 currently has 12 pARTicipating Venues located in various cities around the world and we'd like to also invite you to be a part of the inaugural global expansion of CURATE THIS! as a pARTicipating Venue. The BECA Foundation welcomes your pARTicipation in one of the most exciting international contemporary art + design exhibition and arts + cultural events of 2010. Further information may be found at: www.CurateThis.org. Information of particular interest to potential pARTicipating Venues may be viewed at: www.CurateThis.org/for-venues
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Full exhibition is now viewable online at: www.becaicad.org/upcoming-exhibitions
The BECA Foundation is pleased to present the ‘FUTUREFORWARD’ exhibition of new art + new design at BECA ICAD (International Center for Art + Design), 527 St. Joseph Street, New Orleans, LA 70130 - across from the Contemporary Arts Center from May 1 - 29, 2010. The exhibition highlights works that reveal an idea, message, contribution, warning or solution that if carried forward may profoundly impact the future – be it positively or negatively.
Dear Friends,
The timing and poignancy of this particular exhibition opening last weekend as we here in Louisiana begin to simultaneously experience what may be the worst environmental disaster/oil spill since the Exxon Valdez, makes an already important exhibition even that much more so. Our thoughts are with those families who have lost loved ones in the oil rig explosion as well as with the many families here in Louisiana and around the United States whose livelihoods will be adversely impacted as a result. The resulting damage to our fragile coastal ecosystem was preventable and as such is unacceptable but it is now, unfortunately, inevitable. We hope that each of you, viewing the exhibition online or in person here in New Orleans, takes away something you might be able turn into a positive action toward the future for yourself, your family and your community.
Sincerely,
Melissa Roberts and Kurt Schlough, Directors
This group exhibition features new work by Jonas Angelet, Nikkita Bhakta, Richard Elaver/Phil Renato/Dennis Dollens, Chris Esposito, Sayaka Ganz, Marc Holt, Yeji Jun and Molly Rogers.
The exhibition runs through May 29, 2010. Gallery hours are TH/FRI: 1pm - 6pm and SAT/SUN: 11am - 6pm. The full exhibition is now viewable online at: www.becaicad.org/upcoming-exhibitions A companion exhibition book will be available beginning May 15, 2010.
Artists receive 60% of sale proceeds and The BECA Foundation receives 40% of sale proceeds to help fund + further its international exhibition programming for the benefit of artists, designers and the public. Exhibition sponsorship opportunities are available for future exhibitions. Please email us at mail@thebecafoundation.org to inquire. Thank you for supporting new art + new design + new ideas!
Monday, May 10, 2010
SculptureX
Four regional institutions are collaborating to create SculptureX – a teaching and networking resource and a promotional platform for sculptors, institutions and the region. We use the term “sculpture” in the broadest interpretation of the word - artists producing three-dimensional work in any material as well as performance, video and extended media may participate. There are no dues or fees. To date, these projects are underway:
WEBSITE
Sculpture faculty at Edinboro University of PA founded the www.SculptureX.org website to connect interested faculty with each other as potential visiting artists for the schools and studio art departments in Ohio and Western Pennsylvania, to let each other know about other visiting artists who might be able to come to more than one school, and to give our art schools’ faculty wider recognition. Through this website forum, it is hoped that inter-institutional events may be more easily realized. A calendar of events and a networking feature will be added to the site during Fall 2010.
This is a first call for images for this site, which we are sending to all artist-professors of sculpture at higher education art programs within 250 miles of Cleveland, Ohio, and Erie, Pennsylvania. Anyone teaching, full or part-time, is encouraged to email the following by August 30 to webmaster@SculptureX.org:
- 6 JPG format images sized as close to 800 x 533 pixels as possible
– OR –
- 6 one-minute QuickTime videos
These images should be enclosed in an attachment labeled SculptureXLastName. The email subject line should be: SculptureX. In the body of our message please include your name, personal website (if any), school name and school website, your email, phone and other contact information.
CONFERENCE
The Cleveland Institute of Art is organizing and hosting a Sculpture conference on November 6, 2010. A morning roundtable will focus on teaching sculpture; an afternoon roundtable will consider “the state of sculpture.” A well-known artist or critic will deliver the keynote address. Following the conference, there will be a reception and opening at The Sculpture Center. Participants will also be able to attend an opening at Forum Gallery and SPACES annual benefit, which is very artist oriented.
EXHIBITION
To highlight the outstanding sculpture being produced by the faculty of our region, The Sculpture Center and the Erie Art Museum are presenting two simultaneous exhibitions curated by critic and author David Carrier, to run from June through September 2011. Carrier will review the SculptureX website to select three OH and three PA artist-professors to exhibit their work at both venues. Exhibiting artists will receive a $1,000 stipend, but are expected to deliver and pick up work for the Cleveland and Erie exhibitions. The exhibition will be accompanied by an “on demand” and downloadable catalog with essays by the curator and all artwork illustrated.
More information will be forthcoming as we move forward. Do call or email if you have any questions. Please forward this email to any artist-faculty in your department whom we may have missed.
Best wishes,
Ann Albano, Executive Director, The Sculpture Center
216.229.6527, aalbano@sculpturecenter.org
Lisa Austin, Professor, Art Department, Edinboro University of PA
814.73.2908, laustin@edinboro.edu
Saul Ostrow, Chair of Visual Arts & Technologies, Cleveland Institute of Art
216.932.0070, sostrow@cia.edu
John Vanco, Director, Erie Art Museum
814.459.5477, jvanco@erieartmuseum.org
The 14th Annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition Goes National
May 6, 2010 (New Orleans, LA) The Jonathan Ferrara Gallery is pleased to announce that it has partnered withArtDaily.org to present the 14th edition of the annual No Dead Artists Juried Exhibition of Contemporary Art and that the exhibition is now open to artists from all fifty states.
The No Dead Artists exhibition was founded in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. The exhibition's name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve any success until they die. No Dead Artists turns that on its head and gives emerging artists their first break into the art world. In the 90's, the exhibition was open only to New Orleans artists and then it grew to include artists of Louisiana.
Now in its 14th year, it is expanding to become a national juried exhibition open to artists from all fifty states.
The exhibition has been a springboard for many artists, leading to press coverage, national recognition, gallery representation and acquisitions by museums and other prominent collections. Each year gallery owner, Jonathan Ferrara, invites a panel of renowned arts professional and collectors to select the newest creative talents. Past jurors have included Prospect.1 Founder and Curator Dan Cameron, Museum Director Billie Milam Weisman, Artist Tony Fitzpatrick, MacArthur Fellow John Scott and Ogden Museum Director David Houston.
For the expansion to a national exhibition, three renowned arts professionals have been tapped for the No Dead Artistsjury: Beth Rudin DeWoody, Donna Rosen and Fairfax Dorn, all three of whom are board members of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The Jurors
Beth Rudin DeWoody is regarded as one of the top contemporary collectors in the US as well as a curator of exhibitions. Ms. DeWoody has worked in Africa as assistant director of the TV series Born Free and as production assistant for the films Annie Hall, The Front, and Hair. She also was co-producer of the musical production Enter Juliet. Ms. DeWoody is president of The Rudin Family Foundations and executive vice president of Rudin Management Company. She is on the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Creative Time, Find Your Voice, Inc., New School University, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and is on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum.
Donna Perret Rosen was Director/Owner of Galerie Simonne Stern in New Orleans for 23 years. She pioneered the transformation of New Orleans' Warehouse District into The Arts District. She served as officer on the boards of the Contemporary Arts Center, Arts Council and New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Currently, she serves as a Trustee of The Whitney Museum of American Art, Second Stage Theater, The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Women's Committee of Central Park Conservancy, American Archives of the Smithsonian. She has been a National Trustee of New Orleans Museum of Art and currently serves as Vice-Chairman of American Friends of the British Museum.
Fairfax Dorn is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the non-profit cultural space, Ballroom Marfa located in Marfa, TX. Ballroom Marfa is dedicated to presenting the visual arts, film, music and performance. As an advocate for the freedom of artistic expression, Ballroom Marfa's mission is to serve international, national, regional and local communities and support the work of both emerging and recognized artists working in all media. In addition to her directorship of Ballroom Marfa, Dorn is currently a board member of: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Judd Foundation, New York and Marfa; Exit Art, New York; Centre Pompidou Foundation, Los Angeles and Paris.
Submission Process
TheNo Dead Artists submission period is open from May 3, 2010 thru July 8, 2010. The exhibition is open to ALL mediums including painting, sculpture, glass, metal work, photography, video, mixed media and installation art. The jury winners are featured in an open exhibition at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans from September 1 through September 25, 2010. Selected jury winners are also featured in articles published on ArtDaily.org written by art critic D.Eric Bookhardt (ArtPapers and Gambit Weekly).
New Orleans
New Orleans has become a destination for contemporary visual arts and is considered one of the hotbeds of creative talent in the US. With exhibitions like Prospect Biennial, the national and international focus on New Orleans and its arts scene has increased dramatically from both a critical and collector perspective. With its rich cultural heritage and its unique indigenous creativity, the city and its arts scene are poised for continued success.
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
Jonathan Ferrara Galley is a collective environment of creative visions - a commercial gallery with a public conscience. Artist, activist, and entrepreneur, Jonathan Ferrara, opened the gallery in 1998 to give emerging artists a voice. Since its inception, the gallery has focused on cutting edge works by local, national and international artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and message. In recent years, it has gained a national reputation and increasingly presents artists and exhibitions in cities across the US.
For more information, please contact the gallery via email at info@jonathanferraragallery.com.
Applications can be downloaded from the gallery's website: www.jonathanferraragallery.com
The No Dead Artists exhibition was founded in 1995 to give a voice to emerging artists. The exhibition's name is derived from the old adage that artists never achieve any success until they die. No Dead Artists turns that on its head and gives emerging artists their first break into the art world. In the 90's, the exhibition was open only to New Orleans artists and then it grew to include artists of Louisiana.
Now in its 14th year, it is expanding to become a national juried exhibition open to artists from all fifty states.
The exhibition has been a springboard for many artists, leading to press coverage, national recognition, gallery representation and acquisitions by museums and other prominent collections. Each year gallery owner, Jonathan Ferrara, invites a panel of renowned arts professional and collectors to select the newest creative talents. Past jurors have included Prospect.1 Founder and Curator Dan Cameron, Museum Director Billie Milam Weisman, Artist Tony Fitzpatrick, MacArthur Fellow John Scott and Ogden Museum Director David Houston.
For the expansion to a national exhibition, three renowned arts professionals have been tapped for the No Dead Artistsjury: Beth Rudin DeWoody, Donna Rosen and Fairfax Dorn, all three of whom are board members of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
The Jurors
Beth Rudin DeWoody is regarded as one of the top contemporary collectors in the US as well as a curator of exhibitions. Ms. DeWoody has worked in Africa as assistant director of the TV series Born Free and as production assistant for the films Annie Hall, The Front, and Hair. She also was co-producer of the musical production Enter Juliet. Ms. DeWoody is president of The Rudin Family Foundations and executive vice president of Rudin Management Company. She is on the board of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Creative Time, Find Your Voice, Inc., New School University, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) and is on the Photography Steering Committee at the Norton Museum.
Donna Perret Rosen was Director/Owner of Galerie Simonne Stern in New Orleans for 23 years. She pioneered the transformation of New Orleans' Warehouse District into The Arts District. She served as officer on the boards of the Contemporary Arts Center, Arts Council and New Orleans Center for the Creative Arts. Currently, she serves as a Trustee of The Whitney Museum of American Art, Second Stage Theater, The Society of Memorial Sloan-Kettering, Women's Committee of Central Park Conservancy, American Archives of the Smithsonian. She has been a National Trustee of New Orleans Museum of Art and currently serves as Vice-Chairman of American Friends of the British Museum.
Fairfax Dorn is the Co-founder and Executive Director of the non-profit cultural space, Ballroom Marfa located in Marfa, TX. Ballroom Marfa is dedicated to presenting the visual arts, film, music and performance. As an advocate for the freedom of artistic expression, Ballroom Marfa's mission is to serve international, national, regional and local communities and support the work of both emerging and recognized artists working in all media. In addition to her directorship of Ballroom Marfa, Dorn is currently a board member of: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Judd Foundation, New York and Marfa; Exit Art, New York; Centre Pompidou Foundation, Los Angeles and Paris.
Submission Process
TheNo Dead Artists submission period is open from May 3, 2010 thru July 8, 2010. The exhibition is open to ALL mediums including painting, sculpture, glass, metal work, photography, video, mixed media and installation art. The jury winners are featured in an open exhibition at the Jonathan Ferrara Gallery in New Orleans from September 1 through September 25, 2010. Selected jury winners are also featured in articles published on ArtDaily.org written by art critic D.Eric Bookhardt (ArtPapers and Gambit Weekly).
New Orleans
New Orleans has become a destination for contemporary visual arts and is considered one of the hotbeds of creative talent in the US. With exhibitions like Prospect Biennial, the national and international focus on New Orleans and its arts scene has increased dramatically from both a critical and collector perspective. With its rich cultural heritage and its unique indigenous creativity, the city and its arts scene are poised for continued success.
Jonathan Ferrara Gallery
Jonathan Ferrara Galley is a collective environment of creative visions - a commercial gallery with a public conscience. Artist, activist, and entrepreneur, Jonathan Ferrara, opened the gallery in 1998 to give emerging artists a voice. Since its inception, the gallery has focused on cutting edge works by local, national and international artists with a sense of purpose, mission, and message. In recent years, it has gained a national reputation and increasingly presents artists and exhibitions in cities across the US.
For more information, please contact the gallery via email at info@jonathanferraragallery.com.
Applications can be downloaded from the gallery's website: www.jonathanferraragallery.com
Friday, May 7, 2010
Doo-sung Yoo’s interdisciplinary performance project in 2010 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Doo-sung Yoo, a candidate of the M.F.A. degree in the Department of Art, will show his interdisciplinary project, Pig Bladders-clouds in Rainforest, during the opening reception of the 2010 Master of Fine Arts Exhibition in the OSU Urban Art Space Gallery, 50 W. Town Street, on Saturday, May 8th at 7pm.
Pig Bladders-clouds in Rainforest is an interdisciplinary performance project. Many collaborators including Visual artists, dancers, fashion designers, and sound designers will modify Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest [1968] and manipulate David Tudor’s music, Rainforest [1973] alongside the Organ-machine hybrids project, a series of flying sculptures which combine pig bladders with electronic devices and helium-plastic bags. The project explores choreographic relationships between artificial living things and the human body through an interactive narrative with experimental sound.
Introduction of Doosung’s artwork in the website of the Urban Art Space http://uas.osu.edu/mfa2010/dyoo
Doosung’s previous performances of Pig Bladders-clouds
in downtown Columbus, OH in 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTB-LebTDI&feature=related
in downtown Reno, NV in 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxZ1NasrHo&feature=related
Pig Bladders-clouds in Rainforest is an interdisciplinary performance project. Many collaborators including Visual artists, dancers, fashion designers, and sound designers will modify Merce Cunningham’s Rainforest [1968] and manipulate David Tudor’s music, Rainforest [1973] alongside the Organ-machine hybrids project, a series of flying sculptures which combine pig bladders with electronic devices and helium-plastic bags. The project explores choreographic relationships between artificial living things and the human body through an interactive narrative with experimental sound.
Introduction of Doosung’s artwork in the website of the Urban Art Space http://uas.osu.edu/mfa2010/dyoo
Doosung’s previous performances of Pig Bladders-clouds
in downtown Columbus, OH in 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJTB-LebTDI&feature=related
in downtown Reno, NV in 2009
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvxZ1NasrHo&feature=related
Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Picture yourself at the Taft for historic photo exhibition TruthBeauty, opening May 22
Picture yourself at the Taft for historic photo exhibition
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, traces the rise of photography to a respected fine art form
To download images from this exhibition, please visit http://www.taftmuseum.org/pages/tb_img.php.
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945
May 22-August 8, 2010
Explore the evolution of photography from a tool of documentation to a respected fine art form through the works in the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, which opens at the Taft Museum of Art on Saturday, May 22.
The photographs of the pictorialist movement are among the most spectacular works in the medium's history. The works in TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, rival paintings with expertly crafted, one-of-a-kind images. Included are works from the George Eastman House by Julia Margaret Cameron, Frederick Evans, Alfred Stieglitz, Clarence White and Edward Steichen and early works by Edward Weston and Ansel Adams.
"Today we have no problem recognizing photography as an art form," says Lynne Ambrosini, the chief curator at the Taft. "But in its early days in the mid-19th century, before photography found acceptance, most photographers tried to make photos that looked like paintings, with romantic subjects staged in softly atmospheric settings, full of poetry or mystery."
When photography was invented in the early part of the 19th century, most people considered it a faddish mechanical trick, far from fine art. Some early photographers, however, sought to elevate the medium to the status of painting by emulating the compositions, symbols, visual effects and moods of painting. Photographers also used pre- and post-exposure techniques such as soft focus, darkroom manipulation and even scratching the photograph or negative with fine needles.
During the opening weekend of TruthBeauty, the Taft will celebrate International Museum Day. Admission to the Museum will be free on Saturday, May 22, the first day this exhibition is open to the public. The Museum will offer tours of the special exhibition at 12:30 and 3:30 p.m. and a tour of the permanent collection with Director/CEO Deborah Emont Scott at 2:30 p.m. Memberships to the Taft will be available for a "pay what you can" rate on that day (new members only). Since Sunday is the Taft's free day, admission to the opening weekend of TruthBeauty will be free to the public.
Tracing this influential vein of photography, TruthBeauty includes vintage masterpieces from well-known photographers including Alvin Langdn Coburn, F. Holland Day, Robert Demachy, Gertrude Käsebier and Heinrich Kühn. Also featured are surprising early works by Imogene Cunningham, Adams, and Weston, who are widely known as modernists but began as pictorialists.
"Once modernism came to the fore in the 20th century, the old pictorialist photographs met with scorn. In recent decades, however," Ambrosini says, "they have been rediscovered with delight, and yes, they are most certainly Art with a capital A."
TruthBeauty features 116 photographs, which range from late-19th-century portraits and landscapes to later modernist architectural studies and still lifes. This exhibition explores a number of themes, including a look at precursors of pictorialism, photographic journals, women in pictorialism and print processes.
This is a smaller version of the exhibition by the same name produced by the Vancouver Art Gallery. Both versions were curated by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, from which the works in the exhibition were selected.
Free Sundays are made possible through a grant from The Carol Ann and Ralph V. Haile, Jr./U.S. Bank Foundation so everyone can explore the historic collection, see traveling exhibitions and enjoy this Tristate landmark at no cost.
Programs and Events
Tour: Lytle Park in Black and White with Melvin Grier and Cate O'Hara
Friday, June 4, 1-3 p.m.
Put on your walking shoes and strap on your camera for a look at cityscapes old and new. Associate Curator of Public Programs Cate O'Hara and photojournalist Melvin Grier will lead a short exploration of the city views in the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, followed by a tour of the buildings that make up the Lytle Park neighborhood, from the 1820 Baum-Taft House to the unfinished Great American Tower. Participants should bring a camera to capture the architectural details and juxtapositions that make the neighborhood vibrant. Shutterbugs can share their photographs online to compare how cropping, light, shadow, color and camera angle can alter a view.
Cost for this program is $5 for members, $13 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Advance paid registration is required. Call (513) 684-4515 or register online at www.taftmuseum.org.
Gallery Talks: TruthBeauty
Take an insider's look at the special exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, and the permanent collections of the Taft. These programs take place in the galleries in front of the works of art and require walking and standing for approximately one hour.
With Lynne Ambrosini, chief curator
Saturday, June 5, 1:30 p.m.
Friday, June 11, 1:30 p.m.
With Jymi Bolden, photographer
Thursday, July 1, 1:30 p.m.
With Tamera Muente, curatorial assistant and exhibitions coordinator
Saturday, July 17, 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, August 5, 1:30 p.m.
Cost for these programs is FREE with Museum admission. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4515 or register online at www.taftmuseum.org.
Families Create!: Photo Fun in the Sun
Saturday, June 12, 10 a.m.-12 p.m.
Visit the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, and use the sun's light to create unique photographs. Explore the world of art through gallery visits and activities designed for children ages 5-12 with an adult to learn, create, interact, and have fun together.
Cost for each program is $8 for members and Cincinnati Arts Association members, $12 for nonmembers (includes Museum admission). Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org.
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation; Weston Art Gallery Families Create! Sponsor: Whitney and Phillip Long; Fine Arts Fund Partner: Duke Energy Corp.
Shutterbugs in Cinema: Motion Pictures and Still Photographers
Inspired by the exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, enjoy three classic films in different genres. Each explores how life and art intersect through the lens of the still photographer as leading man. Cincinnati Public Radio film critic Larry Thomas will introduce each movie and lead a discussion afterward. The exhibition will be open until each film begins at 6 p.m. Optional box dinner is available with advance purchase.
June 24, 6 p.m.-Rear Window, 1954
July 8, 6 p.m.-Funny Face, 1957
July 22, 6 p.m.-The Bridges of Madison County, 1995
These movies are free, with an optional box dinner available for $12, with advance purchase required. Reservations are recommended. Call (513) 684-4515 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org.
Teen Studio Workshop: Digital Photography
Saturday, June 26, 1-3 p.m.
Learn ways to enhance your photographs and find out about editing software. Participants will visit the special exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, and take photographs using elements of composition and other techniques seen in the exhibition. Following a critique session, participants will learn how the editing software Picasa can improve their final images.
Cost for this program is $40 for members, $65 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org.
Fine Arts Fund Partner: The Cincinnati Insurance Company
Adult Studio Workshop: Digital Photography
Sunday, July 11, 1-3 p.m.
Bring a fully charged digital camera, a blank memory card, a card reader and your imagination! Instructor Lisa Britton is a professional photographer who teaches at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally.
Cost for this program is $40 for members, $65 for nonmembers. Reservations are required. Call (513) 684-4524 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org.
Fine Arts Fund Partner: The Cincinnati Insurance Company
Lecture: Seeing but Not Believing: The Creative Artist and Photography by Dennis Kiel
Thursday, July 15, 7 p.m.
Dennis Kiel looks at a select group of pictorialist photographers and their attempt to establish photography as art, or, to quote Alfred Stieglitz, the father of American photography, "to compel its recognition . . . as a distinct medium of individual expression." Kiel is chief curator at the Light Factory Contemporary Museum of Photography and Film in Charlotte, NC, and formerly associate curator of prints, drawings, and photographs at the Cincinnati Art Museum. The exhibition TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, will remain open until the lecture begins.
Cost for this program is FREE for members and students, $10 for the public (includes exhibition admission). Reservations are recommended. Call (513) 684-4515 or order online at www.taftmuseum.org.
Sponsor: Stanley and Frances D. Cohen Lecture Series
Picture It: A Festival of Photography
Sunday, August 8, 12-4 p.m.
Experience the world of photography-from historic daguerreotypes to digital media-when the Taft Museum of Art transforms its garden and galleries for a celebration of photography. Look for demonstrations, photo-op scavenger hunt, hands-on activities, tours of TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945, vendors, food and performances.
This program is FREE. No reservations are taken. For information, call (513) 684-4515.
Sponsor: Charles H. Dater Foundation; Fine Arts Fund Partner: Enquirer Media. Organized in cooperation with Stout & Gallant Associates, Inc.
For reservations and more information visit www.taftmuseum.org.
FACT SHEET
TruthBeauty: Pictorialism and the Photograph as Art, 1845-1945
May 22-August 8, 2010
Organized by George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film
Number of Works 130
Media 116 photographs, 14 publications
Major Artists Julia Margaret Cameron, F. Holland Day, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Clarence White, Alvin Langdon Coburn, Imogen Cunningham, Edward Weston, Ansel Adams
Subjects Still lifes, portraits, figures, images of women, landscapes, cityscapes
Some Major Themes Precursors of Pictorialism
Rise of Pictorialism
Photographic Journals
Women in Pictorialism
Print Processes
Connections to the Taft The Pictorialists sought to elevate photography to the same status as painting, drawing and watercolor. They emulated popular styles of painting through the use of a variety of photographic techniques, including soft focus, dramatic light effects and bold technical experimentation. Many of the photographs resemble the styles of 19th-century landscapes and portraits in the Taft collection. The time period of the exhibition generally mirrors the range of 19th-century works in the Taft collection.
Exhibition Venues Vancouver Art Gallery, February 2-April 27 2008 (modified version)
George Eastman House, February 2-June 20, 2009 (modified version)
McNay Art Museum, February 3-May 2, 2010
The Taft Museum of Art, May 21-August 8, 2010
The Phillips Collection, October 9, 2010-January 9, 2011
The Taft Museum of Art is at 316 Pike St., in downtown Cincinnati. The Museum is open Wednesday through Sunday, 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Admission is $8 for adults, $6 for students and seniors and free for children under 18. Call 513-241-0343 or visit the website at www.taftmuseum.org for additional information.
The Taft Museum of Art is supported in part by the generosity of individuals and businesses that give annually to the Fine Arts Fund. The Ohio Arts Council helps fund the Museum with state tax dollars to encourage economic growth, educational excellence, and cultural enrichment for all Ohioans.
The Taft Museum of Art is accredited by the American Association of Museums and is affiliated with the Association of Midwest Museums and the Ohio Museums Association.
Mission Statement
The Taft Museum of Art welcomes people of every background to experience world-renowned collections in a beautiful historic house. Through its innovative exhibitions, programs, and activities, the Museum creates opportunities for enjoyment and discovery.
Diversity Statement
The Taft Museum of Art respects the dignity of all people and values what each member of our team brings to the organization. Accordingly, the Museum is committed to building an inclusive environment that welcomes and values diversity. This includes our staff, board of directors, volunteers and visitors. As an organization we recognize the importance of attracting and retaining talented people of different backgrounds. We understand how a diverse work team of staff, board of directors and volunteers benefits our organization by enabling us to draw upon a richness of resources. We want all our team members to feel appreciated for their uniqueness, so we work to foster an environment that provides everyone equal access to information and opportunities. This ensures that each person learns, grows, excels and maximizes his or her personal contributions. The Museum will thus be able to tap into a greater wealth of knowledge, perspectives, and experiences to develop and deliver programs and services to an increasingly diverse audience.
Contact: Tricia Suit
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Dance on Camera Tours to Jacob Burns Center Pleasantville, NY
Jacob Burns Center in Pleasantville, New York makes its annual tribute to dance, with films that run the gamut from classical ballet to the avant-garde, the studio to the streets, emerging talent to international legends. Anne Bass's documentary "Dancing Across Borders" opens their season on May 7th, followed by screenings on the 9th and 12th.
"Dancing Across Borders," "Breath Made Visible," and "Urban Ballet" are selections from the 38th annual Dance on Camera Festival, co-produced by Dance Films Association and the Film Society of Lincoln Center, supported in part by the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Also to be presented will be "Only When I Dance," "Craneway Event" and the heartening "NY Export: Opus Jazz," initiated by NYC Ballet dancers Ellen Bar and Sean Suozzi.
"Only When I Dance," a 2009, UK/Portuguese production directed by Beadie Finzi, follows two teenagers who desperately want to dance their way out of Brazil and into a North American ballet company. This documentary sensitively conveys the young people's hopes and dreams, and the extraordinary natural gifts and willpower it takes to make them come true. May 8 at 9:15; May 11 at 7:30; May 13 at 5:15
Sunday, May 9 at 12:15pm will be the screening of "Craneway Event" completed in 2009 by British artist Tacita Dean. Dean uses 16mm color film to capture a rehearsal of Merce Cunningham Company in an abandoned Ford Motor Company plant. "Layering Cunningham's interactions with the dancers, the dancers' movements, activities on the dock outside the window, and the changing patterns of light in the enormous space, Dean has created a document of random movement and chance encounters that evoke the legendary choreographer's own sensibility."
Carolyn Brown, original member of the Cunningham company, will introduce the screening and afterward sign copies of her 2007 memoir "Chance and Circumstance: Twenty Years with Cage and Cunningham."
"NY Export: Opus Jazz" will be shown May 10, 7:15. Directed by Henry Joost/Jody Lee Lipes, broadcast on PBS in 2010, this screen adaptation is a stunning achievement!
DFA's Dance on Camera touring program has acquired 112 partners over the last 12 years. This has been made possible in part with support from the National Endowment for the Arts, the members of DFA, and the Susan Braun Trust. Becky Kendall from Momentum Dance Company reported on her first showing this April of Dance on Camera in Anchorage, Alaska, "The film night was extremely successful and our venues organization would love to make it an annual event! We really loved the films and the whole process was just wonderful."
In 2010, DFA has already toured to 15 venues. Somi Roy will include DFA's Festival in his Re:Play Festival in Manipur, India June 9-13, 2010.
On June 12th, DFA will have a screening and live performance event featuring the World Class Dancers at Alvin Ailey Center in New York as part of National Dance Week NY.
To see full schedule, see Touring Page.
Enjoy the May flowers. Keep in touch.
Sincerely,
Deirdre Towers
Artistic Director
Dance Films Association
Friday, April 2, 2010
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
2010 Undergraduate Spring Juried Exhibition
WE NEED VOLUNTEERS - Sign up sheets are posted outside of the Office for the Department of art in Hopkins hall room 146.
You must fill out this application and turn it in with the work you are submitting:
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Wednesday, March 3, 2010
A Public Reading: Combatant Status Review Tribunals pp. 002954 – 003064
For Immediate Release
Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064
A public reading
A part of 9 Scripts from a Nation at War
OSU Thompson Library, West Reading Room
Friday, March 5, 2010, 4 - 8 p.m.
The conference, Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies, at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Thompson Library on March 4 and 5, presents “Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064,” a four-hour public reading of fifteen tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, between July 2004 and March 2005. Featured are approximately 110 pages of tribunal transcripts, a small fraction of the material generated by 558 tribunals. This performance is part of the artwork “9 Scripts from a Nation at War” by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, and Andrea Geyer.
After the United States Supreme Court ruled in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that prisoners held at Guantánamo had certain minimal rights, the Department of Defense set up The Combatant Status Review Tribunals, or CSRTs, to provide the appearance of a Habeas Corpus procedure while, in accordance with Article 5 of the Geneva Conventions, allowing detainees to contest their status as “enemy combatants.” During each tribunal, the U.S. government presents unclassified accusations against the detainee, and the accused is then permitted to rebut these specific charges. The detainee is given personal representation but not legitimate legal counsel; he is not allowed to see, or therefore rebut, classified information, and since the bulk of the evidence that provides the basis for “enemy combatant” designation is usually classified, prisoners are effectively kept from making their cases.
The sheer volume of transcripts released on the Internet by the Department of Defense has effectively obscured them from public view. “Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064” stages an excerpt of these proceedings as a gesture of making these tribunals public, with all their fabrications, inconsistencies, and contradictions.
“Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064” was originally performed on March 11th, 2007 at Judson Memorial Church in New York presented in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at the New School, New York.
The reading at OSU is part of the conference: Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies, at the Wexner Center for the Arts on March 4 and 5. The reading will take approximately 4 hours including breaks. Readers in Columbus are Shelia Bock, Patty Cunningham II, Joel Diaz, Joseph Ferguson, Katie Gonzalez, Elaine Householder, Theresa Lee, Lucy Ramos, Cormac Slevin, Danielle Terrance, and Liza Toher.
“9 Scripts from a Nation at War” is a collaborative project developed over the past three years by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, and Andrea Geyer.
Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer will be at OSU to participate in the conference and will be present for the reading and the discussion that will follow.
Featuring multiple media, “9 Scripts from a Nation at War” responds to the new questions and changed conditions that have arisen since March 2003. The project considers the processes by which we become, are placed into and/or refuse to be certain kinds of “individuals”—artists, soldiers, students, journalists, prisoners, detainees, citizens, Iraqis, Europeans, Americans, and so on.
The reading is organized by the OSU Department of English and Department of Art Living Culture Initiative, with the Wexner Center for the Arts and realized with the support of The OSU College of Arts and Humanities, The Multicultural Center Collaborative Programming Grant, The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, The Institute for Women, Gender, and Public Policy, The Mershon Center for Public Policy, Project Narrative, Rhetorical Visions Fund, Center for Folklore Studies, The Department of Women’s Studies, Women in Development, Disability Studies, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Sexuality Studies, and the Folklore Students Association
If you have questions concerning access, wish to request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for a disability please contact Amy Shuman at Shuman.1@osu.edu. Early requests are encouraged; a week will generally allow us to provide seamless service .
Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064
A public reading
A part of 9 Scripts from a Nation at War
OSU Thompson Library, West Reading Room
Friday, March 5, 2010, 4 - 8 p.m.
The conference, Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies, at the Wexner Center for the Arts and the Thompson Library on March 4 and 5, presents “Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064,” a four-hour public reading of fifteen tribunals held at the U.S. military prison camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, between July 2004 and March 2005. Featured are approximately 110 pages of tribunal transcripts, a small fraction of the material generated by 558 tribunals. This performance is part of the artwork “9 Scripts from a Nation at War” by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, and Andrea Geyer.
After the United States Supreme Court ruled in Hamdi v. Rumsfeld that prisoners held at Guantánamo had certain minimal rights, the Department of Defense set up The Combatant Status Review Tribunals, or CSRTs, to provide the appearance of a Habeas Corpus procedure while, in accordance with Article 5 of the Geneva Conventions, allowing detainees to contest their status as “enemy combatants.” During each tribunal, the U.S. government presents unclassified accusations against the detainee, and the accused is then permitted to rebut these specific charges. The detainee is given personal representation but not legitimate legal counsel; he is not allowed to see, or therefore rebut, classified information, and since the bulk of the evidence that provides the basis for “enemy combatant” designation is usually classified, prisoners are effectively kept from making their cases.
The sheer volume of transcripts released on the Internet by the Department of Defense has effectively obscured them from public view. “Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064” stages an excerpt of these proceedings as a gesture of making these tribunals public, with all their fabrications, inconsistencies, and contradictions.
“Combatant Status Review Tribunals, pp. 002954 – 003064” was originally performed on March 11th, 2007 at Judson Memorial Church in New York presented in collaboration with the Vera List Center for Arts and Politics at the New School, New York.
The reading at OSU is part of the conference: Human Rights: Confronting Images and Testimonies, at the Wexner Center for the Arts on March 4 and 5. The reading will take approximately 4 hours including breaks. Readers in Columbus are Shelia Bock, Patty Cunningham II, Joel Diaz, Joseph Ferguson, Katie Gonzalez, Elaine Householder, Theresa Lee, Lucy Ramos, Cormac Slevin, Danielle Terrance, and Liza Toher.
“9 Scripts from a Nation at War” is a collaborative project developed over the past three years by David Thorne, Katya Sander, Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes, and Andrea Geyer.
Ashley Hunt, Sharon Hayes and Andrea Geyer will be at OSU to participate in the conference and will be present for the reading and the discussion that will follow.
Featuring multiple media, “9 Scripts from a Nation at War” responds to the new questions and changed conditions that have arisen since March 2003. The project considers the processes by which we become, are placed into and/or refuse to be certain kinds of “individuals”—artists, soldiers, students, journalists, prisoners, detainees, citizens, Iraqis, Europeans, Americans, and so on.
The reading is organized by the OSU Department of English and Department of Art Living Culture Initiative, with the Wexner Center for the Arts and realized with the support of The OSU College of Arts and Humanities, The Multicultural Center Collaborative Programming Grant, The Institute for Collaborative Research and Public Humanities, The Institute for Women, Gender, and Public Policy, The Mershon Center for Public Policy, Project Narrative, Rhetorical Visions Fund, Center for Folklore Studies, The Department of Women’s Studies, Women in Development, Disability Studies, Melton Center for Jewish Studies, Sexuality Studies, and the Folklore Students Association
If you have questions concerning access, wish to request a sign language interpreter or other accommodations for a disability please contact Amy Shuman at Shuman.1@osu.edu. Early requests are encouraged; a week will generally allow us to provide seamless service .
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