Deborah LaGrasse received her bachelor of
arts from the University of Florida, a master
of fine arts from Southern Illinois University,
and studied in Paris, France at the Sorbonne
and the Alliance Francaise.
Currently, the artist is an assistant in architecture at the School of Architecture at Florida A&M University. She previously was head of sculpture in the Department of Art at Eastern Illinois University.
LaGrasse has served as a panelist in four College Art Conferences in the past ten years and has been a visiting artist at 15 different institutions. She received an individual artist fellowship from the Florida Arts Council in 1992. Her exhibition schedule is vigorous, and she exhbited in six regional museums in 1994. Her works are in permanent collections of southeastern institutions from Radford University in Virginia to the Center for Fine Arts in Vero Beach, Florida.
Lecture Thursday, September 5, 1996 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm
Joyce Garner and Wendi Smith are the co-initiators and artists for the Turman Art Gallery exhibition The Marriage Project: A Mid-Life Perspective.
Smith and Garner will discuss the artwork in the exhibit which features a collaborative effort of 13 mid-life artists and writers from Kentucky and Indiana presenting a diversity of media, techniques, life experiences, and viewpoints that center on the subject of modern marriage.
Gallery Talk Saturday, September 28, 1996 Turman Art Gallery 7:00 pm followed by the opening reception for the exhibit The Marriage Project: A Mid-Life Perspective
Virtually everyone interested in contemporary fine art photography
is familiar with Jerry Uelsman's work. His credits include three-and-a-half
decades of exhibitions in major museums, universities, and galleries
around the world.
In the 1990s he has achieved the status of one of the living "grand masters" of the medium, a position held in the 1960s, 70s, and 80s by such well respected photographers as Andre Kertesz, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and Barbara Morgan.
Jerry Uehlsman has been graduate research professor of art at the University of Florida since 1974. His work is permanently represented at the Metropolitan Museum, New York; the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University; and the Royal Photographic Society, London.
Lecture Wednesday, October 23, 1996 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm
Ann Kalmbach is one of the founders and is currently the
executive director of the Women's Studio Workshop, an artists'
workspace with extensive programs in printmaking, papermaking, and
book arts, in Rosendale, New York.
Kalmbach will survey a number of artists' books produced at the workshop since 1979 which focus on a variety of approaches to the book form ranging from the personal histories of artists to the history of the book form itself.
Artists' books from the Women's Studio Workshop are represented in many public and private collections including the Museum of Modern Art, Metropolitan Museum, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London
Lecture Saturday, November 2,1996 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm followed by the opening reception for the exhibit WSW XX Years
Buzz Spector has received widespread recognition as a conceptual
artist whose works explore a variety of materials and formats.
As noted in a review of the artist's solo exhibit at the Roy Boyd
Gallery in Chicago, the artist "relishes what he perceives as intensely
experienced discontinuities between our words and our world."
In addition to creating unique and singular objects--many of which manipulate written material--Spector has created numerous installation pieces at sites around the nation, including the 1988 "Library of Babel" at the Art Institute of Chicago. Spector received his master of fine artsfrom the University of Chicago in 1978. He currently serves as a professor at the University of Illinois School of Art and Design in Champaign, Illinois.
For his evening lecture, Spector will discuss his own themes and career as an artist and the evolution of artists' books as an important contemporary visual art form.
Lecture Wednesday, November 13, 1996 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm
Dale Leys, professor of art at Murray State University, employs the use of large drawings meticulously planned to reflect his interpretations of the world around us. Many of his works convey an ecological message. In his drawings, items are often seperated to define the relationships between reality and the progression of time from imagined places and objects.
Leys has had a number of solo and group exhibitions in the Midwest and is represented in a number of private and public collections.
Workshop Thursday and Friday, January 16-17, 1997 Lecture Saturday, January 18, 1997 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm followed by the opening reception for the exhibit From One to Another
Patricia Bellan-Gillen, associate professor of art at Carnegie-Mellon University, received Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania's 1995 artist of the year award from the Pittsburgh Center for the Arts. Bellan-Gillen's work thematically delves into the multifarious roles that religion plays in our everyday lives. The images used in her work derive from Byzantine icons and early Italian Renaissance altarpieces. These appropriated forms are then manipulated producing the juxtaposition of the beautiful and silly which symbolize the dichotomy of moral guidance and mental encumbrance that religion bestows upon us.
Workshop Thursday and Friday, January 30-31, 1997 Lecture Saturday, February 1, 1997 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm
Frank Gallo received his bachelor of fine arts from the Toledo Museum School of Art and a master's degree in sculpture from the University of Iowa. He has been head of the graduate sculpture program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana for more than 30 years.
Historically, sculptures were painted, glazed, or inlaid in an effort to create convincing and vivid effigies. Polychroming was used to achieve a high degree of intimate personification. A novel characteristic of Gallo's early constructions in polyester resin was the use of color for naturalistic representation. His stylized sculptures of the 1960s are joined by the celebrated work of artists Duane Hansen, John DeAndrea, Nicki De Saint Phalle and Edward Kienholz.
Lecture Tuesday, March 4, 1997 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm
Michael Shaugnessy will create a new site-specific installation for the Bare Montgomery Student Art Gallery to be on view April 6-12, 1997. Shaugnessy's sculptures combine traditions from his ancestors. For three generations, his mother's forebears were farmers and his father's were architects. The completed works evoke powerful associations with both families through the smell, texture, and mass of the hay. The public is invited to see the work in progress and to hear a talk by Shaugnessy.
Shaugnessy has created works for museums and galleries across the country, including the Portland Museum of Art (Maine), the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (North Carolina), Exit Art (New York City), the Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago), and the Rice University Art Gallery (Houston).
Lecture Thursday, April 10, 1997 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm Installation Bare Montgomery Student Gallery, April 6-12
Born in Bedford, Indiana, William Wiley received the bachelor of fine arts in 1961 and a master of fine arts in 1962 from the San Francisco Art Institute. He has taught at the University of California, Davis; San Francisco Art Institute; University of Nevada at Reno; Washington State College, Pullman; University of California, Berkeley; School of Visual Art, New York; and the University of Colorado at Boulder.
One of the most important contemporary artists to emerge from the San Francisco Bay area, Wiley uses a wide range of nontraditional art materials to create his autobiographical assemblages. In the exhibition William Wiley: Seed Corn, Wiley's style and informal approach are evident. Repeated themes and personal symbols appear with literary wordplay, raising many issues, especially the politics of food production and those concerns that face the farmer in America's heartland today. His work reminds us of our relationship to the land and our responsibilities to it.
Lecture Sunday, March 23, 1997 Holmstedt Hall, room 103 7:00 pm Open Forum with Students: March 24
