Six in the Mix:
Selections by Renee Stout
Hillyer Art Space Exhibition | July 3 - August 26, 2009
First Friday Reception: July 3rd, 2009, 6-9PM
Sounds by DJ Deep Sang
Food and refreshments will be served
$5 suggested donation
Six in the Mix: Selections by Renee Stout brings together a divergent company of D.C. and Baltimore's emerging and mid-career artists for Hillyer Art Space's summer program. This show will feature the work of Cianne Fragione, Kenyatta Hinkle, Adam Griffiths, Marc Roman, James Swainbank, and Gilbert Trent.
Stout has set out to create a mixed bag of local talent not based in the obligatory conceptual framework predominantly exhibited in group shows. Instead of the varying inspiration and ideas behind the individual bodies of work, it is the "natural dialogue that may occur between these works" which Stout would like the audience to experience.
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Albrecht Durer: Art in Transition
Masterpieces from the Graphic Collection of the Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
Albrecht Durer: Kunst Im Übergang
Meisterwerke aus der Graphischen Sammlung: Hessisches Landesmuseum Darmstadt, Germany
136-page bilingual (English and German) exhibition catalogue
Exhibition circulated by IA&A
The tour of Gather up the Fragments has been extended through December 2012. Opening in October 2010, this exhibition tells the story of the first and most avid collectors of Shaker art, Faith and Edward Deming Andrews. Gather up the Fragments includes more than 200 objects—Shaker furniture, textiles, manuscripts, works on paper and small craft—is the most comprehensive collection of Shaker materials ever assembled, providing insight into the Andrews’ complex role as pioneers in the field of Shaker studies. Of special note are the iconic Shaker Gift drawings as well as many Shaker objects on public display for the first time. Organized by Hancock Shaker Village in Pittsfield, Massachusetts, this exhibition examines the full scope of the Andrews’ involvement with Shakerism, as scholars, collectors, and dealers.
Available: February 2011 – April 2011; January 2012 – December 2012
Contact: Amisha Motipara
Pail, Andrews Collection, Hancock Shaker Village
NEA Funds Educational Programming at HBCU:
Art of Africa
Through a matching grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, a Teacher’s Workshop will be held in conjunction with the traveling exhibition Art of Africa at Virginia State University in Petersburg. Participating teachers will learn about the art, people, and cultures within the exhibition and will receive curricula to take back to the classroom. A Family Guide was published for children who visit the gallery and includes activities for use in the gallery and at home. Art of Africa opens at Virginia State University on Sunday, February 8, 2009. IA&A is looking for more historically black colleges and universities to host the exhibition and participate in its accompanying educational programming.
Available: For 8-weeks, available November 2009 – December 2011
Contact: Amisha Motipara
Male Twin Figures (Ibeji); Yoruba peoples, Nigeria; Carved wood stained with dark natural substance; 20th century
Exhibition Awarded for North American Tour:
Soaring Voices
Soaring Voices: Recent Ceramics by Women from Japan has been distinguished by receiving two grants from prestigious foundations. A grant from the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation will give general exhibition support while the S&R Foundation will support both the tour and specifically a museum venue in Washington, D.C. This significant exhibition, developed by the Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art at the Shigaraki Ceramic Cultural Park, features 86 exceptional ceramics by 25 contemporary women artists reflecting the rich and innovative ceramic culture of Japan.
Available: For 8-weeks, available November 2009 through September 2011
Contact: Nicole Forrest
Etsuko Tashima, Cornocopia 03 III, Private Collection
In Praise of: In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America
The book In Search of Norman Rockwell’s America, published by Simon & Schuster, is rated in the top 10,000 sales on Amazon.com out of 14 million books and is on the best gifts list at Barnes & Noble. The exhibition brings this book to life by pairing Rivoli's photographs side-by-side with Norman Rockwell's iconic paintings, demonstrating how Rockwell's scenes were not just imagined on a canvas since they continue to sensitively reflect the American experience today. The exhibition includes many of the inspiring quotes and anecdotes of Rockwell’s paintings and Rivoli’s photographs featured in the book. Kevin Rivoli is available for lectures, gallery talks and other educational programming as is Brooks Robinson, the baseball player featured in Rockwell paintings and a close Rockwell friend.
Available: For 8-week booking periods, August 2009 through October 2009; May 2010 through April 2011
Contact: Nicole Forrest
Norman Rockwell, Can’t Wait; Rivoli, Off to War
Arte en la Charreria – Edmonton Journal – 19 December 2008
The Royal Alberta Museum [RAM] in Edmonton is the first venue on the North American tour of Arte en la Charreria: The Artisanship of Mexican Equestrian Culture. Arte en la Charreria illustrates one of the richest on-going traditions of Mexico through art objects and traditional costume. On view until April at RAM, this article published in the Edmonton Journal describes the exhibition as incredibly beautiful with “…a real mix of inspiration and cultural touchstones.”
Leaded – Corpus Christi Caller Times – 04 December 2008
In the article “Getting Creative with the Common,” Dr. Elizabeth Reese highlights the inventiveness of the 16 artists in Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, who “use the physical and visual characteristics of graphite and pencils as both artistic tools and creative content.”Leaded convenes three categories of use: graphite as content, graphite as transformative agent, and graphite as sculpture. On tour through December 2009, catch Leaded next at Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Rochester, New York.
Voices – The Washington Post: Express Weekend Out – 09 October 2008
As The Washington Post: Express Weekend Out reports, Voices: Contemporary Ceramic Art from Sweden,“represents more than the political; it illuminates the cultural side of Swedish art and the shifts in form following function and storytelling…the borders of art are not so strict.” Set to open in March at the Yellowstone Art Museum in Billings, Montana, Voices showcases the work of 10 of Sweden’s leading ceramic artists whose work redefines ceramics as an art form used for freedom of expression, no longer as objects designed primarily for function.
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