Body & Spirit

Phillip Chan & Adam Fleming

The New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art presents Body & Spirit by artists Phillip Chan & Adam Fleming.  The exhibition runs from June 21 – August 3, 2008.  A reception for the artists held on June 21 from 4:00 - 6:00 p.m. is free and open to the public.  New Harmony Gallery of Contemporary Art is located at 506 Main Street in New Harmony, IN and is open Tuesday through Saturday 10:00 - 5:00 p.m. and Sunday 12:00 - 4:00 p.m. For more information please call 812-682-3156.

Body & Spirit explores the physical body and our spiritual possibilities through sculptures, paintings, and drawings.  Chan’s Fallen Angel series examines our vulnerability as human beings and the pious state that each of us hopes to realize.  Fleming’s sculptures represent the body with its silent longings.  Each sculpture’s negative spaces, meditative and silent, wait to be filled by the Spirit of God.

Phillip Chan lives and works in Akron, OH. He is Professor of Art at Youngstown State University where he has worked since 1992.  He received his MFA in drawing & painting from San Jose State University in CA. Chan has received numerous grants and awards including three NEH grants and an NEA individual artist grant.  Adam Fleming has a BA in Theology from Goshen College in Goshen, IN where he lives and works.  He has studied sculpture with Wayne Harshberger since 2002.  He has had numerous exhibitions throughout the region and has won juried prizes at many art fairs and shows.

This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of the University of Southern Indiana.

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Utopiana

A performative community art project

In two cycles

by Mary Beth Edelson

New Harmony, Indiana

  Cycle 1, Oct 7- Nov 5, 2006

Cycle 2 - 2007

Working Mission Statement

To produce a meaningful project that reinforces the sense of community in New Harmony and updates their historic bond with the concept of utopia by presenting it as a contemporary work in progress.

“ What is utopian in our culture today that we do not recognize as such?”

is the question posed by New York artist, Mary Beth Edelson for community-wide project in New Harmony, titled Utopian. Beginning as a workshop with students from USI and New Harmony community Cycle 1’s mission together with Edelson’s is to create an original concept with a blueprint for producing during Cycle 2 in 2007. The interval between the two cycles with allow for research and preparation time before the production phase in 2007. 

Further participation with the general community of New Harmony will be encouraged through the Story Gathering Boxes. These designed boxes have been distributed throughout New Harmony in high traffic areas with cards placed inside them, (see list of addresses below). Stamped on the cards is the question “What is utopian in our culture today that we do not recognize as such?” The public is asked to write their responses on the cards and then place them back in the box. The answers are analyzed by the workshop group for underlying issues, common threads as well as inspiration for shaping the concept for the project. With community participation and the creativity of the workshop group we will seek to advance the sense of community in New Harmony and to interweave issues facing the future of New Harmony into the project.  Publicity will be sought to both inform and invite the general public to participate in the early stages of the project by writing their thoughts on the cards in the boxes, and participate in other ways in the project as it emerges.

Cycle 2, 2007 will culminate in the tailored production of the Cycle 1 concept to benefit the New Harmony community. Utopiana is a community venture that strives to open ended, questioning, inclusive and truly participatory, and because of this built in fluidity the final product(s) cannot be known before hand. This unpredictability adds to the spontaneity and life of the project.

Utopia is always a work in progress-- that seeks volunteers.

For more information on Utopiana or Mary Beth Edelson visit www.marybethedelson.com

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Common Ground

2003-2007