Craft/Material Studies Visiting Artist Lecture
November 4th at 10:00am
Fine Arts Bldg., Room 238

Sharif Bey spent his formative years as an apprentice, in ceramics, at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild’s in Pittsburgh. He holds a B.F.A from Slippery Rock University, an M.F.A from The University of North Carolina at Greensboro and a Ph. D in Art Education from Penn State University. Bey is a Fulbright scholar and has been a visiting artist at the McColl Center for Visual Arts, The Academy of Fine Arts and Design and the University of Kentucky. His ceramic/mixed-media works explore traditional and contemporary notions of function, ritual and identity. Currently Bey is an assistant professor of Art Education at Winston Salem State University in North Carolina.

Contemporary Craft Society Visiting Artist
Wednesday, November 5th at 12:00pm
Bowe Street Building, Rm 535

Using the vernacular of the 19th century, a time when art and science were more closely linked, an era when technology was still messy, and mechanization suggested easy living, mixed with the DIY optimism of the 1960s, Todd-Wheeler investigates alternative avenues for power that draw from the kinetic potential of communal activity. These interactive sculptures and installations aim to intertwine the failures of our consumer culture and the Utopian hopes of sustainable initiatives.

http://babel.massart.edu/~debtoddwheeler/

Collaborative Project Description:

“In the North Pacific Ocean there is an immense patch of floating plastic debris trapped by the currents of the North Pacific Gyre. This Great Pacific Garbage Patch reminds us that indeed every single piece of plastic ever made is still with us, in one form or another.

Thinking about all that water, and the bobbing plastic bottles…makes a person REALLY thirsty, and we need to hydrate to keep healthy, right? Drink up, drink more, and toss your water bottles into the special collection bins designated for a 2 day workshop that will convert our guilty consumption to boundless productivity, where we will convert this ubiquitous material into an immense interpretation of man’s greatest achievement.”

Students will be working with Deb Todd Wheeler on a collaborative project using cold connection techniques to join plastic bottles and bags into a larger sculpture determined by participants.

Richmond Magazine’s Pollak Prizes were recently announced, and most recipients have VCUarts connections.

The awards are named in honor of Theresa Pollak, the woman  whose classes, which began in 1928, spawned  VCU School of the Arts.

The following honorees have VCUarts connections:
Faculty
Scott Putnam/Amaranth Contemporary Dance
Susie Ganch - Fine Arts

Alumni
Cindy Neuschwander (lifetime achievement with Jay Barrows)
Pam Fox - Photography
Terri Murphy Simpson - Vocalist
David Bridgewater - Theater
Ann Swanson - Film
Virginia Samsel - Emerging Artist for Locker 50b
Danny Finney - Applied Arts

October 27 – November 14

Reception, October 29 5–7pm
(gallery talk to take place during reception)

Gaddis Geeslin Gallery
Sam Houston State University, Huntsville TX

Additional images & audio clips at derekcote.com

image detail from God Is Canadian, sculpture and multi-channel audio installation

Shadow Play, a world premiere theatrical production!
Running November 6-8, 13-15, and 20-22 at 7:30 and November 9, 16, and 23 at 3 pm. All performances are the W.E. Singleton Center for the Performing Arts, 922 Park Avenue, Richmond. Tickets are $8- 20, available at the Box Office at the theatre, by email at theatretix@vcu.edu, or by phone at (804) 828-6026.

Shadow Play in Style Weekly

Depart of Dance & Choreography Community Master Class

November 3, 2008, 6:45-8:15 pm
Hosted by the Richmond Ballet
407 East Canal Street
Open to experienced dancers aged 15+. Admission $5
Lobby opens at 6:00 pm for sign-in.

Gerri Houlihan is Associate Professor of Dance at Florida State University. She was a faculty member at New World School of the Arts from 1988–1999, and Artistic Director of Houlihan and Dancers (HAD) from 1991–1999. Ms. Houlihan was a former principal dancer with Lar Lubovitch Dance Company, the Metropolitan Opera Ballet Company, and Paul Sanasardo Dance Co., and she was founder/director of Boston Dance Project school and company, 1984–1987. She has served as faculty/guest artist at Connecticut College, University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Virginia Commonwealth University, North Carolina School of the Arts, University of South Florida, and Boston Ballet; and has taught in Brazil, Chile, China, Estonia, Paraguay, Poland, and the Philippines for American Dance Festival (ADF) linkage programs since 1993. Ms. Houlihan taught in the ADF/ Korea program in 1990, 1991, 2002, 2004; ADF/Russia in 1997; ADF/Mongolia in 2004, 2005; and was the ADF Four Week School Director from 2001–2005. In 2005 she was the recipient of the Balasaraswati/Joy Ann Dewey Beinecke Endowed Chair for Distinguished Teaching at ADF. Ms. Houlihan holds an MFA from HU/ADF program in 2007. She has served on the ADF faculty from 1981–1983 and since 1989.

Elizabeth King (Professor Sculpture + Extended Media)

The Sizes of Things in the Mind’s Eye
November 8 — December 21, 2008
David Winton Bell Gallery
List Art Center, Brown University
64 College Street
Providence, RI 02912

www.brown.edu/bellgallery

Painting and Printmaking Guest Artist Lecture
Thursday October 30, 11am
“Fishbowl” rm 301 School of the Arts Building
1000 West Broad St.

Michelle Grabner’s exhibition record includes solo shows at The Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita KS, Ten in one Gallery NY, and Rocket Gallery London.  Group exhibits include Musee d’Art Modern Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg, Daimier Contemporary, Berlin, and Mckenzie Fine Art, NY.  For More information please visit: http://home.comcast.net/~aaronvandyke/occasionalart/index_grabner_cv.html

Second year MFA candidates Sculpture + Extended Media exhibition and artists’ talks
October 20—November 5 2008
Closing Reception and artists’ talks November 5, 5–8pm

Mia Feuer
Maria Pithara
Julie Ann Nagle
Patrick Cadenhead
Chris Mahonski
Brian Taylor

Middendorf Gallery at MICA
1300 West Mount Royal Avenue
Baltimore Maryland 21217

1509 West. Main St.
Richmond Va
Friday, October 24, 2008
2-4pm
Artwork from workshops by
Leo Divendal
Annelies Grimbergen

Kelly Gasque. Rachel Gropper. Caitlin Martin. Karla Micken. Sean O’neill. Jordy Tropp. Jennifer Valenzuela. Jordan Weaver. Eric Wolinsky. Peter Bain. Ernest Bernhardi. Jason Dilworth. Alex Egner. FeiFei Fan. Marla Fabrizio. Bret Hansen. Carissa Henriques. Eric Karnes. Meena Khalili. SoHee Kwon. Hye Jin Park. Joshua Reese. Lauren Rodriguez. Jillian Sanford. Allison Schumacher. Murphy Zhang

Presented by the Department of Graphic Design