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October 2007
PLU Visitors’ Guide: Art Galleries
The University Art Gallery opens its newest art exhibit just in time for Homecoming! Stop by for the Homecoming Open House on Saturday, October 13th from noon-4 to check out the exhibit that creates “Instant Sparks” on the PLU campus. Learn more about the art and the artists that will be featured during the 2007-2008 Season in the PLU Art Galleries here.
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Rickie Solinger
Photo-sociological exhibition 'Beggars & Choosers'
Photojournalist Rickie Solinger curates this exhibition that examines the effects of poverty on motherhood, through the eyes of both those marginalized families who experience it and those of the many photographers nationwide who have documented the experience. The resulting show is a thought provoking examination of the impact of financial struggles and their implications on the family and community. It's also a reflection on the range of visual expressions brought to bear on one theme.
WEKELL GALLERY
Jordan Hartman (PLU University Photographer) & Son Carter
Father-Son Lessons in Imaging (Getting a Child Artist Started)
University Photographer and PLU alumnus Jordan Hartman is beginning to teach his young son Carter about the wide world of picture-making. Carter is teaching Dad some new things about how to look at things. It's how we develop as artists, at any age; the give-and-take of the learning process pushes us to the limits of our vision and lets us expand them in surprising and refreshing ways.
OPENS Monday, September 10, 9 am
OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, September 12, 5-7 pm
UNIVERSITY GALLERY SHOW CLOSES Thursday, September 27, 4 pm
WEKELL SHOW CLOSES Wednesday, October 17, 4 pm
OCTOBER
UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Instant Sparks [surprise short-term installation by PLU alumna & gallery director Kathryn Sparks]
PLU alumna, teacher and gallery director Kathryn Sparks takes on the same problem her students, colleagues and artists throughout time have faced, what to do with the blank page, the empty wall. Challenge: in the three days before her exhibition's short run, how will she artistically transform the University Gallery -- and herself? Come and see where the spark of invention takes her this time.
OPENS Monday, October 1, 9 am
HOMECOMING OPEN HOUSE Saturday, October 13, noon-4 pm
CLOSES Wednesday, October 17, 4 pm
OCTOBER-NOVEMBER
UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Becky Frehse
Mixed media collage & paintings [former PLU professor & gallery director]
Artist, educator, world-traveler and former PLU gallery director Becky Frehse returns to our midst with a gathering of works spanning the recent years of her rich, layered art. Her mixed-media artworks explore and pay homage to the many cultures and communities in which the artist and her family have been immersed, flavored further with her own innate sympathy for the delicate detail others seldom see.
OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, October 24, 5-7 pm
From 5-6pm, come enjoy live Irish and Celtic folk music provided by “Mooncoin,”, 5 musicians featuring PLU Music Professor Greg Youtz.
CLOSES Friday, November 16, 4 pm
CLOSING RECEPTION Saturday and Sunday, November 17 and 18
NOVEMBER-DECEMBER
UNIVERSITY GALLERY
'Desire for Normality'
Arizona State University graduate artists' traveling exhibition
A collective of sculptors and mixed-media artists formed at Arizona State University presents this traveling exhibition that lets us join them in examining what it means to 'fit in'. Our deep urge to belong and to be seen as part of the accepted norms around us emerges in strange and compelling ways, as exposed -- and even celebrated -- in the artworks of this exhibition.
WEKELL GALLERY
Juried PLU student exhibition [includes winter Senior Exhibition]
PLU students submit their finest work for the chance to participate in this exhibition, a show limited only by the skill and imagination of the artists. Will you see the next Big Thing in art here? Be among the first to critique and admire the artists' work and speed them on their way to further greatness.
OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, November 28, 5-7 pm
CLOSES Friday, December 14, 4 pm
JANUARY-FEBRUARY
UNIVERSITY & WEKELL GALLERIES
Faculty Showcase
Craig Cornwall in University Gallery; other department faculty in the Wekell Gallery
The annual showing of work by PLU's teaching artists is an opportunity for students and community to see what the "locals" do in those rare moments when they're not sharing the classroom and studio with their students. Those who CAN, teach! This year we feature art by our newest studio instructor, Drawing and Printmaking master Craig Cornwall, as the focus of the show.
OPENS Wednesday, January 9, 9 am
CLOSING RECEPTION Wednesday, February 13, 5-7 pm
CLOSES Friday, February 15, 4 pm
FEBRUARY-MARCH
UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Connie Evans
NYC photographer/artist/arts-management expert
Nationally-known New York artist, photographer and arts management leader Connie Evans brings to us her powerful photographic imagery and her expertise, visiting PLU with a superb gallery exhibition and guest lecture presentation. In this millennium, it's increasingly crucial to understand the relationships between high-level professional artistry and the complicated social, political and economic world in which artists live and work, and Connie Evans provides a compelling example with both her work and her insight.
OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, February 20, 5-7 pm
CLOSES Thursday, March 20, 4 pm
APRIL
UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Wearing My Art on My Sleeve: Tattoo Art Revival
Tattoo work designs and documentation by regional/local artists
Student-assisted project creating curatorial text & documentation to set all in an historical, social, spiritual & (especially) artistic context
The rebirth of tattooing's popularity sometimes overwhelms a sense of its long and complex history. Here we can view the connections between the pure visual artistry of a well-made picture that also happens to be a tattoo and the many facets of social, political, spiritual and personal nature carried by art when it is expressed directly on the body.
WEKELL GALLERY
Lawry Gold tribute exhibition
Students and friends of Lawry Gold showing artworks celebrating and commemorating his life and work
An exhibition remembering and celebrating the life and work of longtime PLU artist, teacher, philosophical guide and friend Lawry Gold (1949-2006). Participants are students, colleagues and other friends and admirers of Lawry and are invited to share their tribute in art form, an homage to the Muse that was among us in his guise.
OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, April 2, 5-7 pm
CLOSES Friday, April 25, 4 pm
APRIL-MAY
UNIVERSITY GALLERY
Senior Exhibition
Spring graduates in Art are the vanguard of their generation of emerging artists. Take a tour of the future of art as they show their best and latest work in media and subjects ranging from the traditional to the twenty-first century. See the world through new eyes. Enjoy the diversity of stories, images and adventures these artists bring, and be among those who can say in their famous futures, "I knew them when!"
OPENING RECEPTION Wednesday, April 30, 5-7 pm
CLOSES Friday, May 23, 4 pm
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