Thursday, May 28, 2009
New Harmony in Review
 In 2008, Kent Schuette, a celebrated architect and associate professor for architecture and historic preservation at Purdue University, invited four artists to be inspired by the history, culture, and visual appeal of New Harmony, Indiana. The artists, Catherine Schuette Hmurovich, John David Mooney, Anne Tichenor Schaller, and Arthur Schaller, created a series of artwork about the town's sacred spaces, cultural and architectural history, and social and physical landscape. That artwork will be on display at the New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art June 6 through July 12. A reception for "New Harmony in Review" will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday, June 6, and is free and open to the public. Schuette is one of three emeritus advisors to the National Historic Trust for Historic Preservation, serves on the Lafayette, Indiana, Historic Preservation Commission, and is an architect member of the State of Indiana Historic Preservation Review Board. He also served as the architect for the creation of New Harmony's Cathedral Labyrinth and Sacred Garden, commissioned by Jane B. Owen in 1995. Schuette Hmurovich has worked as an art educator at the Farragust Career Academy in Chicago and as a studio coordinator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. She has exhibited at Gallery 37 in Chicago and at the Harrison Center in Indianapolis among other venues. She currently lives and works in Indianapolis as a stay-at-home mom and an independent designer for Rom & Rem, a children's clothing line. Mooney, a major environmental sculptor and urban designer, has created sculpture and large-scale environmental installations across the globe, including Wild Rising Moon at the University of Minnesota-Duluth Starsteps, a rooftop sculpture along the Hollywood Freeway and Sunset Blvd in Los Angeles, and Stardance, a 48-story light sculpture created for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Tichenor Schaller is a member of the faculty in the Division of Architecture and Art at Norwich University. Previously, she taught in the college of Fine Arts at Ball State University and at the Creative Art Center in Muncie. Her husband Arthur Schaller is the current dean of Architecture and Art at Norwich University in Northfield, Vermont. A former professor in architecture at Ball State University, he has worked as an architect and artist in the medium of collage for the past 20 years. The couple lived in Yorktown, Indiana for 24 years prior to moving to Vermont. New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, Indiana, and is open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday. For more information call 812/682-3156 or visit www.nhgallery.com. This exhibition was made possible through the support of the University of Southern Indiana and the Indiana Arts Commission. Erika Myers-Bromwell New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art 812/682-3156 or emyersbro@usi.edu |
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