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USI to premiere "Sack Race with Knives: The Curious Art of Kevin Titzer" documentary March 21

March 1, 2024

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The University of Southern Indiana will premiere Sack Race with Knives: The Curious Art of Kevin Titzer at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, March 21 in the USI Performance Center. This public showing will be followed by a reception at 7:30 p.m. in the Performance Center.

In 2018, alumnus Kevin Titzer ’97, created a unique installation on campus called Sack Race with Knives. The exhibit featured Titzer as the first-ever artist-in-residence, sponsored by the USI Art and Design Department. Titzer used the McCutchan/Pace Galleries to create Chapter 23: Sack Race with Knives, a large-scale installation made from reclaimed materials from the Evansville area. The creation of this installation took two weeks to complete.  

Over the past five years, local photographer, videographer and fellow USI alumnus, Jordan Barclay ’05, produced a 25-minute documentary about Titzer and the art installation called Sack Race with Knives: The Curious Art of Kevin Titzer. Barclay received partial financial assistance from the USI Foundation to complete the documentary.  

“I hope people watching the documentary feel inspired by Kevin's art and his process with the installation. Recycling is also an important subject to me, so it was fun to explore how we can give new life to old, discarded materials,” Barclay says.  

Thomas Bernardin ’08, USI alumnus; Katie Waters, Professor Emeritus of Art at USI; and Lenny Dowhie, Emeritus Professor of Art at USI, were all involved in conducting the interviews, filming and editing the documentary.  

There is a Facebook page and Instagram page dedicated to the work of the pair. 

Upcoming screenings: 

Private screenings are also scheduled at universities in Atlanta and Nashville and one with the Greenville Arts Council. 

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