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.

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.

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

Craft/Material Studies Guest Artist Lecture
Tuesday, October 28th at 7:00pm
Bowe Street Bldg, Room 535

The Extreme Craft Roadshow is a slide presentation covering many of the “Greatest Hits” of  www.extremecraft.com.  The artists and projects presented in the lecture are by turns hilarious, inspirational, deranged, sexual and downright disturbing.  The Extreme Craft Roadshow presents the audience with a portrait of the blurred line between art and craft at present — fine artists using craft materials to get their point across, craft artists making work so audacious that it can only be considered fine art as well as people using traditional materials to express radical ideas.

Garth Johnson is a studio artist, writer and educator who lives in Eureka, California.  His website, Extreme Craft is a compendium of craft masquerading as art, art masquerading as craft and craft extending its middle finger.

GRAPHIC DESIGN OBJECTS + METHODS
TIME: Monday October, 20 at 4:30p
PLACE: Student Commons Theatre *New Location*

Leo Divendal studied theatre, directing and teaching in Amsterdam, and since 1994 has taught photography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy in Amsterdam. He has shown in numerous group exhibitions since 1980 in Budapest, Sheffield, Paris, Sesto Fiorentino, Venice, New York, Amsterdam, Groningen and other cities. Mr. Divendal has exhibited in solo shows since 1977 in Paris, Ankara, New York and Amsterdam. His writing includes several articles on photography for photography magazines, daily journals, museum catalogues, shows and books. He has currated several exhibitions with the Spaarnestad Photoarchives in Haarlem, composed and written catalogues on the work of Kertèsz and others. He also curated The Fourth Wall exhibition in 1991 in Amsterdam and published a book in collaboration with Victor Levie. Leo’s work is in the permanent collections of the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, Stedelijke Museum in Amsterdam, the Prentenkabinet in Leiden, and Art Foundation collections in Amsterdam, Utrecht and Haarlem.

Annelies Grimbergen is a master of bookbinding and custom portfolio and presentation boxes. She has held numerous workshops in these areas in schools throughout Holland including the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, the Art Academy of Utrecht, and the Art Center of Hofstede Duet. She has had commissions for special edition portfolio boxes for numerous international photographers and has created special archival boxes for the Meermanno Museum in the Hague, the Jewish Archive Etschaim in Amsterdam, and the Rijksacademie in Amsterdam.

Panel Discussion:
October 22: 5:00 - 7:30 pm
Student Commons Theater, 907 Floyd Avenue
Join the Artists:  For a Discussion of their Work
Richard Frumess, Kristy Deetz, Peter Dykhuis
Lorraine Glessner, Cheryl Goldsleger
Heather Harvey, Jeffrey Hirst, Timothy McDowell
Reni Gower, Moderator

Encaustic Workshop
October 23: 9:00 - Noon
Lobby, Fine Arts Building, 1000 West Broad Street
Join the Artists:  For Hands-on Demonstrations
Scrafitto Techniques / Wax and Oil
Old School Meltdowns
Technical Advice
Stencils / Image Layering
Image Transfers / Collage
Imbedded / Screen Printed Imagery
Representational  Modeling
Events Are Free and Open to the Public
Special Thanks: VCUarts, School of the Arts,
Painting and Printmaking Department, and Anderson Gallery;
R & F Handmade Paints, Inc; Page Bond Gallery

Exhibition:
September 19 - December 7, 2008
VCUarts Anderson Gallery
9071⁄2 West Franklin Street

VCU Dance 2008-2009, in conjunction with the Latin Ballet of Virginia announces
Lecture-Demonstration with Antares Danza Contemporanea of Hermosillo, Mexico
Saturday, October 25, 2008
11:00 AM
Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen, Dance Studio

The Department of Dance and Choreography is delighted to announce that a lecture-demonstration with Antares Danza Contemporanea and Artistic Director Miguel Mancillas will be taking place Saturday, October 25 at 11:00 AM in the Dance Studio at the Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen. Dancers, students, and teachers from the Richmond community are encouraged to attend.

An independent contemporary dance company founded in Mexico in 1987, Antares Danza Contemporánea dives into the passions of the human soul to spill them over on stage. The group will perform Tu Hombro (“Your Shoulder”), the latest work by Artistic Director Miguel Mancillas, in which the metaphor of the shoulder, with three true joints and two false, translates to human behavior as portrayed through demanding physicality and intense expressiveness. Miguel Mancillas visits VCU Dance for a fall, 2008 one-week teaching residency culminating in a performance by Antares Danza Contemporanea on Friday & Saturday, October 24 & 25 at 8:00 PM at the Grace Street Theater.

Though the choreography of Antares Danza Contemporánea stems from Miguel Mancillas, the actual business of creating dance is carried out collectively by the company. The collaborative process is evident in the meshing of dance styles that melds temperaments, intelligences and instructions in one organic body. Through performance, teaching and community engagement during their residency, the unique ensemble will demonstrate their Mexican cultural heritage, individual artistic voices and unique perspectives culled from their own life experiences.

This project is funded in part by generous grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation. Many thanks to the Latin Ballet of Virginia and the Cultural Arts Center of Glen Allen for hosting this lecture-demonstration event.

This lecture-demonstration is free and open to the public. We hope you and your students will take this opportunity to learn about process, performance, and inter-cultural exchange from a visiting international artist.

Craft/Material Studies Artist Lecture Series
October 14th @ 2:30pm
Bowe Street Building,  Room 535

Mark Shapiro has been making pots in his western Massachusetts studio for over 20 years. He is frequent workshop leader, lecturer, panelist, and writer. His interviews of Karen Karnes and Michael Simon are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and he is currently working on a monograph to accompany a traveling retrospective of Karnes’s work.  He recently curated “Containing History” at the Albany (NY) Institute of History and Art, a show of contemporary potters influenced by historical ceramics.  He is a contributing advisor to Studio Potter and is on the advisory board of Ceramics Monthly. His own work was featured in the 4th World Biennale in Icheon, Korea, and is in many public collections including the Mint Museum, the Smithsonian, the Newark Museum, the International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred, and the Racine Art Museum.

Mark will speak about how his interest in researching and documenting the lives and work  of early American and contemporary potters has informed his own studio practice.
 http://www.stonepoolpottery.com/

October 13th, 1:00pm,
Bowe Street Bldg, Room 535
Richmond, VA

Since earning her BFA from Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Lipman has exhibited her work widely and has received numerous awards including a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant, Wisconsin Arts Board Fellowship, and a American- Scandinavian Foundation Travel Grant. She has participated in residencies at the Studio of the Creative Glass Center of America at Wheaton Arts in Millville, NJ, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center’s Arts/Industry Program in Kohler, WI, and the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA.  Her installation, “After You’re Gone,” is on view at the RISD Museum in Providence, RI through January 2009.
Her work has been acquired by the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Corning Museum of Glass, and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and can be found in many private collections. In 2007, Lipman designed a collection of exotic fruits and pods, for Steuben Glass. Since 2005 she has coordinated the Arts/Industry Residency program at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center in Sheboygan, WI.

Presented by the Department of Craft/Material Studies

Craft/Material Studies Guest Lecture
October 9 at 10:30am
609 Bowe Street 535
Richmond, VA

Iris Bodemer is a German artist. Her work has been exhibited internationally in solo and group exhibitions in Geneva, Washington DC, New York, München, and Berlin. Bodemer has in numerous pieces in private collections. Her work can be viewed at http://www.tactile.ch/iris_bodemer.htm.