Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Two new exhibitions on display at Art Center
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Wendy Knipe Bredhold Media Relations Specialist, News & Information Services 812/461-5259 Purchase Awards from Student Art Shows In the late 1970s, the USI Bookstore initiated funding for a purchase award for the USI Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition held each spring on the USI campus. Over the years, individuals and businesses contributed monies to purchase additional student artworks from the annual student exhibits, all of which then become part of the USI Art Collection. The current exhibit features a selection of 48 purchase awards by 47 artists, chosen in student shows from 1978 to 2010. The artworks are created in a wide variety of art media, from oil paintings and charcoal drawings to ceramic and steel sculptures. The various donors are identified on the title cards and the Art Department is most grateful for their generous support. Additional purchase award artworks are on display throughout the USI campus. A list of them and their locations are available at the McCutchan Art Center/Palmina F. and Stephen S. Pace Galleries. The public is encouraged to seek out these artworks as well. Prints and Ceramic Works by Visiting Artists 1978-2010 As a vital part of the education of USI art majors, the Art Department invites nationally and internationally-known visiting artists to the USI campus each year in order that students may interact with and learn from them. They present lectures on their artworks, meet with students, and often view and critique student work. On occasion, these artists also create artworks while in residence. This exhibit features a selection of prints and ceramic sculptures produced at USI by visiting artists and then donated by them to the USI art collection. Michael Aakhus, professor of art, and Andrew Kosten, instructor in art, together with printmaking students, have assisted visiting artists in completing editions of prints in a wide range of processes. These include intaglio, lithography, wood relief, screen prints and monoprint. Original drawings and preliminary versions of several of the prints are featured, to demonstrate the artist′s thought and working processes. Lenny Dowhie, professor of art, and his students in the ceramic area helped visiting artists complete the sculptural and function clay pieces in the exhibition. A third exhibit, Art Glass from the Alan and Susan Shovers Collection, is on display in the McCutchan Exhibition Space in the Wright Administration Building. Alan and Susan Shovers credit the start of their Carder Steuben glass collection to "luck, timing, and their relationships with dealers and collectors willing to part with a piece or two of their prized collections." The Shovers Collection encompasses a wide range of glass designed by British born artist and co-founder of Steuben Glass Works, Frederick Carder. This is not an idle collection. Each piece is either used or displayed works are studied and admired and new works are added then occasionally some are sold. These functional and decorative works fill their Evansville home, or as Alan Shovers lovingly refers to it, their "glass museum." The Shovers Collection is the subject of "Objects of Desire: The Art of Frederick Carder," written and illustrated by Alan Shovers. The Evansville Museum of Arts, History, and Science sponsored the publication of this book to accompany their 2005 exhibition that originated here in Evansville. "Objects of Desire" shares the Shovers′ selections that exemplify the best of the collection and many of those works are on display at USI. The Shovers are active in the Carder Steuben Club and Alan Shovers is a Life Director of the USI Foundation Board. |
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