Monday, July 23, 2007
Audubon film featuring Aakhus to air July 25
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Michael Aakhus, associate dean of the College of Liberal Arts and master printmaker, will be featured in a documentary about John James Audubon that will air on PBS stations Wednesday, July 25. "John James Audubon: Drawn from Nature" is part of the "American Masters" PBS series and will trace the artist's career. In January 2006, Aakhus, assisted by Brandon Gardner, reenacted history for the documentary film crew by pulling an impression from an engraved copper plate of naturalist John James Audubon’s “Tell Tale Godwit” in the USI Art Studio. Aakhus first made restrikes from the plate, part of the collection of the John James Audubon Museum in Henderson, Kentucky, in a ceremony in August 2002. That event was the first time prints had been created from the plate in 160 years. It is one of only 78 remaining plates from 435 in Audubon’s masterpiece, Birds of America. The film offers insights into Audubon's passion for his "magnificent obsession," the phrase Audubon used to subscribe his relationship to his art. It will be broadcast at 8 p.m. Wednesday on KET and WNIN. |
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