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Fall 2008
2008 Mississippi Collegiate Compeition Accepted Entries
The Juror was Michael Crespo, Professor of Painting and Drawing, Louisiana
State University. There were 644 entries from 8 colleges and universities.
100 works selected for the show. The Ole Miss Art Department had 14 of its
64 entries selected.
The following are the accepted entries from Ole Miss:
Mixed Media
Bill Gundlach - "Defiance"
Sculpture
Leif Lacy - "Surf's Up"
Ross Turner - "Whichever Way the Wind Blows"
Jason Giardina - "Stephanie"
Clay Arts
Sarah Teasley - "Prey"
Hiu-Yan Mak - "Untitled 3"
Laura Williams - "Plumbing"
Laura Williams - "Oscar"
Printmaking
Jessica Beeman - "Strays"
Ross Turner - "Pwned"
Drawing
Kristen Vise - "My Efficiency"
Painting
Rina Chiu - "Coffee or Tea"
Rina Chiu - "Fork and Chopstick"
Aynslee Moon - "Bukis"
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Mud Daubers Student Pottery Sale
November 19 & 20, 2008
8am–5pm
Student Union Porch
The annual Mud Daubers Student Pottery Sale is upon us! Stop by the Student Union Porch on November 19 & 20, 2008, from 8am–5pm to pick up that special piece. They will be offering a wide array of ceramic work for sale–everything from cups to platters to teapots!
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SAA Holiday Art Sale
Friday, November 7, 2008, 9am–5 pm
Meek Hall Gallery 130
It's that time of year again. Christmas is right around the corner. Buy your presents early! The Department of Art is hosting its annual Holiday Art Sale. Gallery 130 will be completely filled with artwork made by undergrads, grads, faculty/staff, alumni, and The Mud Daubers. There will be paintings, prints, drawings, photography, pottery, and sculpture. The Holiday Art Sale will last all day, Friday, November 7th. But get there early to find that special piece–because it goes fast!
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The Department of Art Open House
Thursday, October 2, 2008
4–6pm
Please join us for The Department of Art Open House on Thursday, October 2, 2008 from 4 to 6 pm in Meek Hall! The students have been hard at work this semester. Come see their progress and talk to the faculty, staff, and students. Students will be exhibiting their in-progress work in ceramics, drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, graphic design, and photography.
Our special guest will be Greg Crowe, Ceramic Artist all the way from Perth, Australia. Crowe is an internationally recognized ceramic artist. He is known for his aggressive manipulation of form on the potter’s wheel and using wood and salt firing to accentuate the surface. He will be giving a demo on October 2nd & 3rd in Meek Hall Room 127 from 9 am–4 pm, and a slide lecture on October 2nd in Meek Hall Room 120 at 4 pm.
Jason Bouldin’s exhibition Representing Our Leaders: The Process of a Portrait will also be on view in Meek Hall Gallery 130. It is an amazing insight behind the process of painting portraits.
We also have newly completed renovations to our building. Over the summer, Meek Hall underwent construction for new stairwells and an elevator along with a new roof.
So, come join us Thursday, October 2, 2008 from 4–6 pm! There will be art, food, and fun!
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Portrait show celebrates leaders
in conjunction with first presidential debate
OXFORD, Miss. – How does one go about representing a leader or public servant in paint for a society’s collective memory? What technical and aesthetic considerations are required? Observe for yourself the portrait process as it unfolds, at the Art Department’s Gallery 130 in Meek Hall on the campus of the University of Mississippi. “Representing Our Leaders: The Process of a Portrait” highlights selected works of Mississippi native and nationally-renowned portraitist Jason Bouldin. The exhibit is on display Sept. 22 to Oct. 10, 2008. On Sept. 23 will be a gallery talk at 2:00pm and reception from 4:00 to 6:00pm.
Our nation has a proud history of public service, with leaders who step forward in times of need to contribute their talents, passion, creativity and intellect in an effort to aid a community in fulfilling its potential. These leaders have come from all walks of life, and represent a variety of voices from our eclectic population. But each has sought to participate in a way that would share benefit beyond himself or herself.
One way in which the memory of those public servants has traditionally been captured for the collective community, present and future, is through portraiture. In the process of recording a leader’s image for the public eye, a host of considerations must be made; the image represents not only an individual person, but signifies the role that he or she serves or has served. This may be accomplished through symbol, composition, background, setting, attire, attributes, body language and even artistic style.
This Presidential Debate event seeks to explore how one artist, Bouldin, approaches both the technical processes and aesthetic considerations that surround the creation of a commissioned portrait of a public official, leader or servant.
The exhibition will juxtapose preparatory sketches and primary source material with finished paintings of former Governor William F. Winter, Mississippi statesman, and regional leader in education; former Mississippi State Supreme Court Justice Lenore Prather, the first lady to serve as Chief Justice of that chamber; Derek Bok, former president of Harvard University; Rev. Peter Gomes, theologian, New York Times best-selling author and preacher to the Memorial Church at Harvard University; the late Richard S. Arnold, nationally respected jurist and U.S. Federal Judge for the Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals; the late John Kramer, activist and former dean of the School of Law, Tulane University.
“I am delighted to be able to share these artifacts of the thought process behind imagining, developing, and executing a portrait designed for the public arena. And it’s quite an honor to be able to do so in conjunction with the campus excitement surrounding the upcoming presidential debate,” says Bouldin.
Sheri Fleck Rieth, Interim Chair of the Department of Art said of Jason Bouldin’s work, “His is a labor of love in the search for the image that captures the true personality of the sitter. It is a gentle, beautiful and timeless vision. The sketches illuminate to some degree, the hours of work and thought that goes into each portrait and makes us aware of the process of a portrait.”
For more information on the exhibit, please contact Sheri Rieth, interim chair of the Department of Art, 662-915-6987.
For more information about the University of Mississippi Department of Art, visit http://www.olemiss.edu/depts/art./ For information on all presidential debate-related events, visit http://www.olemiss.edu/debate/calendar .
Additional information available from Bouldin: Electronic images of exhibition paintings; feature articles from The Artist’s Magazine, International Artist, American Artist; resume; biographical sketch
View images of the exhibition and lecture!
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Recent BFA graduate, Chris Sneed has work published in Ceramics Monthly
9/18/2008
Chris Sneed was recently featured in the September issue of Ceramics Monthly in the 2008 Undergraduate Showcase article. He is one of 14 other undergraduates from around the country who were also featured in the showcase. Sneed's "Ash Cup" was chosen for publication. Sneed is a recent graduate of The Department of Art.
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Susan Maakestad
Paintings and Drawings
Meek Hall, Gallery 130
Lecture: Thursday, September
18, 2–3:30
pm,
Meek Hall
Gallery
130
Reception: Thursday, September
18, 4–6
pm
Susan Maakestad is Associate Professor of Art
at Memphis College of Art where she has taught since 1997. She earned her M.F.A.
in painting from The
University
of Iowa in 1987 and a B.A. (magna cum laude) and M.A. from Central Washington
University in Ellensburg, WA. She was awarded a regional National Endowment for
the Arts fellowship from Arts Midwest in 1988. She has been a fellow at the MacDowell
Colony and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Her work has been included
in the national publication “New American Paintings” and The Painting
Center in New York’s on line “Art File”. Her work has been
exhibited nationally. She is represented by The Rymer Gallery in Nashville, Groveland
Gallery in Minneapolis and Perry Nicole Fine Art in Memphis. She is also the
long time host of “House Bayou” on WEVL 89.9 FM in Memphis.
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Recent Printmaking Graduates Display Work
at Memphis College of Art
7/24/2008
The 2008 University
of Mississippi Printmakers, a group of six recent art department
graduates, presents selections of their work this week at the Memphis
College of Art.
The show, "Oh Lord, Won't You Send me a Sign," is displayed in MCA's "on
the street" gallery at 388 South Main St. in Memphis. The exhibit is available
for free viewing 4-9 p.m. Thursday and Friday (July 24 and 25) and noon-5 p.m.
Saturday.
An opening reception is scheduled for 6-9 p.m. Friday in conjunction with Memphis'
Trolley Night, during which other area galleries are open and trolley rides are
free. The exhibit features about 30 pieces from 2008 B.F.A. graduates Dabbs Anderson,
Len Clark and Tyler Morgan, as well as the work of 2008 M.F.A. graduates Micah
Craven, Melissa Lee and Vitus Shell.
"It's not often that you see so many printmakers grouped together in an
exhibition," said the show's curator, Sheri Fleck Rieth, UM chair and associate
professor of art. "Because all the work is so different, you have a really
good sampling."
The exhibit features a collection of Anderson's work derived from haikus and
made of everything from chicken bones to bubble gum, as well as Morgan's interpretation
of "the price of femininity," which pairs ribbons with screws and metals
to create dress-like pieces, Rieth said. Shell's featured pieces are foam relief
prints depicting the "African-American experience," while Clark's work
is based on comic book and graphic novel styles, Rieth said.
Craven's monotypes portray thin, dark figures with an undertone of hope in his
prints, and Lee creates prints using wooden and glass plates that have been damaged
with hammers and shotguns "to make my prints look so beautiful and approachable
that one forgets that these prints come from a place of hurt or malice," according
to the curator's statement.
The name of the show, borrowed from lyrics of an Arcade Fire song, addresses
a thought Rieth said she has had many times.
"We wonder if what we do is making any kind of difference," she said. "If
we teach, we look at those faces every semester on the first day of classes and
hope that something we do will give them some information or assistance that
will make what they do have some meaning."
Rieth said she listened to the song's lyrics, which ask "Lord won't you
send me a sign, 'cause I just gotta know if I'm wastin' my time," many times
during spring semester, and it inspired the show.
"Six of my printmaking students would be graduating," she said in the
statement. "They were all so very gifted, so good. Whether I had anything
to do with what they had accomplished during their time with me or not, it was
a sign that I was not wasting my time. They gave me such a precious gift, and
so this show was conceived to share this gift with you."
Rieth, who earned her master's of fine arts degree from the Memphis College of
Art and taught there from 1995 to 1998, said she is thankful for the opportunity
to display the exhibit in Memphis.
"We have really strong ties with the Memphis College of Art and the university
here, and I think it's a nice thing to keep those ties in place," she said.
The students have already shown their work on the Ole Miss campus as part of
their graduation requirements.
by Lindsey Phillips
View images of the show!
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Summer Student Art Exhibition
The Summer Student Art Exhibition is currently on view in Meek Hall Gallery 130
and will be up all summer long from May 12th until August 29th, 2008. The juried
exhibition showcases the works of the undergraduate and graduate students within
the Art Department.
Susan Maakestad, Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting
at the Memphis College of Art, was the juror for the exhibition.
The reception for this event will take place on Thursday, August 28, 2008 from
4–6 pm.