Holiday Hours

Just two more weeks to catch Faculty Show 12!  The Museum will be open through the New Year but please note the following holiday schedule.  The Museum is closed December 24-25 and will re-open on December 26 with normal operating hours through the end of the month.  The Museum will also close on December 31, 2012 and January 1, 2013 re-opening for normal operating hours on January 2nd.

More Homecoming Pictures!

Here are some more pictures from the Faculty Show 12 Homecoming reception held at the Muscarelle in October. All pictures courtesy of the Art and Art History Department.



Professor Elizabeth Mead and Chief Curator John T. Spike discuss her work.

John Lee, Visiting Professor, and his wife Laura view the exhibition.

Professors Brian Kreydatus, with son James, and Ed Pease.

Nicole McCormick Santiago, Associate Professor, and her daughter Susan.

Final Faculty Friday at Five post

Thank you to all who came to the final installment of Faculty Fridays at Five on November 30th. This talk featured Naomi Falk and Nicole McCormick-Santiago. Below, I have included a few pictures from the evening.

 






Nicole McCormick-Santiago

Naomi Falk

 

 

 

Our galleries become classrooms

Here are some pictures of faculty artist, Brian Kreydatus, and his printmaking class looking at the Faculty Show as well as a variety of prints from the museum's permanent collection.

Please see below for his teaching philosophy.

 

 

"As a teacher, I constantly stress the fundamentals of drawing, design, and color.

Without a thorough understanding of these principles, an artist cannot speak clearly...."

 

 

 

 

"Every semester I bring my printmaking students to the museum.

Melissa Parris- the museums registrar, always goes out of her way to accommodate my class by bringing out the works I’ve requested plus a few surprises.

For the students, being able to investigate a Durer or Kollwitz print directly is a transformative experience."

 

LAST FACULTY FRIDAY AT 5 PM - THIS FRIDAY!

Just a reminder that this Friday at 5 PM is the LAST installment of our three part series. Naomi Falk and Nicole McCormick-Santiago will be presenting on their works featured in the show. We look forward to seeing you then!

Q&A with Elizabeth Mead

Here is a short Q&A with faculty artist Elizabeth Mead. Click here to visit her website.

Q: What do you think is the importance of quiet contemplation and the act of just "looking"?

A: I think it is important to understand things, and that takes time. Today we seem to think we can do multiple tasks simultaneously and that we should be able to suss information up immediately. We fool ourselves. This does not give us the chance to really know something deeply. I leave this to Blaise Pascal who said, " We never keep to the present. We anticipate the future as if we found it too slow in coming and were trying to hurry it up, or we recall the past as if to stay its too rapid flight. We are so unwise that we wander about in times that are not ours and blindly flee the only one that is. The fact is that the present usually hurts.” The short answer to your question, the importance of quiet contemplation and looking, is, to be present in the moment and take the time necessary to carefully and thoughtfully consider all that around us. This is what it means to me to just look.

 
Q: How do you think “art” is defined? What is “art” to you and how do you think your work contributes to that definition?

A: I tend not to think of my work in these terms. Instead I view the act of making as a form of inquiry, a way of coming to know and understand the world. The process of making is simply another way of thinking.

 
Q: Do you feel your work contributes to a more personal internal level of understanding or a greater awareness of the general human condition or neither?

A: I don't think my work is any more personal than any other form of investigation is personal to the individual carrying it out. If I am a scientist I am curious about X and therefore that is what I investigate. If I am a writer then I figure out my way of being and understanding the world through the act of writing. As a sculptor I tend to need to investigate the world physically by making objects and at other times through drawing. We are all seeking, each in our own way, a greater awareness and understanding of the world at large.

Faculty Fridays at Five: Part 2

Thanks to all who attended the second installment of Faculty Fridays at Five this past Friday evening, November 16th! We were excited to see another good turnout to support our very talented faculty artists. This week's presenters were Professor Brian Kreydatus and Professor John Lee. I have included below a few pictures taken at the event.

 



"I think of acrylic [paint] like a veggie burger...
 If you expect a veggie burger to taste
like Five Guys, you're going to be sorely disappointed.
Acrylic doesn't have the same meatiness that oil does."

 

Professor Kreydatus in front of his works.





Professor Lee discussing his works
and his view on the importance of color awareness.

 




"The soul exists partly in eternity and partly in time.” 
~Marsilio Ficino

 

 

The third (and FINAL) installment of the Faculty Fridays at Five will take place on November 30th at 5 pm! Naomi Falk and Nicole McCormick-Santiago will be presenting on their works featured in the exhibition. We hope to see you there!!