Featuring Michael Sherwin, Nate Larson, Mark Crabtree & Betty Rivard, Bill Gilbert, Erika Osborne, Xiaoze Xie, Ayumi Horie, Gary Radke for the J. Bernard Schultz Endowed Lecture and Michael Mercil for the Deem Distinguished Lecture.
Michael Sherwin
September 2, 2010
Using the mediums of photography, video and installation,
Michael Sherwin makes art that reflects on the experience of observing nature
through the lenses of science and popular culture. He has won numerous grants and
awards for his work, and has been exhibited widely, including recent shows at CEPA
Gallery in Buffalo, New York, SPACES Gallery in Cleveland, Ohio, PUNCH Gallery
in Seattle, Washington, and the Center for Emerging Visual Artists in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. Sherwin earned a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Oregon
in 2004, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The Ohio State University in 1999. He
has been a member of the faculty at institutions including, the University of Oregon
and Central Washington University. Currently he is an Assistant Professor of Photography
and Intermedia at West Virginia University.
N ate Larson
September 23, 2010
N ate Larson
September 23, 2010
Nate Larson is a full-time faculty member at the Maryland Institute College of Art
in Baltimore. His work with photographic media, artist books and narrative video
has been widely exhibited across the US and internationally. Numerous publications
have reviewed and published his projects, including "Exposure", "Art Papers", "The
New York Times" and "Afterimage." He has received grants from the Ultimate
Eye Foundation in California; Visual Studies Workshop in New York; the Banff Centre
for the Arts in Alberta, Canada; the City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs
and the Illinois Arts Council. Larson earned a Master of Fine Arts from the Ohio
State University in 2002, and a Bachelor of Arts from Purdue University in 2000.
He was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the Society for Photographic
Education.
Mark Crabtree & Betty Rivard
October 7, 2010
October 7, 2010
The focus of this presentation is on the 75th anniversary of the FSA photographs
that were taken in West Virginia between 1935 and 1943, with a particular emphasis
on the trip by Walker Evans to northern WV in June-July 1935. The presentation
will include music performed by local musicians who are connected with the times.
Rivard is a professional fine art landscape photographer who lives in Braxton County.
She has completed a book titled "Images of Resilience: New Deal Photographs
in West Virginia - 1935-43" and has written articles for "Goldenseal" and "Wonderful
West Virginia" magazines. She has WVU graduate degrees in Education and Social
Work. Crabtree is a professional photographer and musician who lives in Morgantown.
He has been researching Evans' 1935 trip to West Virginia over the past fifteen
years. Crabtree graduated from WVU with a degree in Journalism.
Bill Gilbert
October 28, 2010
Bill Gilbert has served on the faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at
the University of New Mexico since 1988 where he holds the Lannan Endowed Chair
as director of the Land Arts of the American West program. Gilbert is also the
co-founder of the new Art & Ecology emphasis in studio art and has recently
been appointed as Senior Associate Dean for Research of the College of Fine Arts.
Gilbert has exhibited his place based, mixed media installation and video works
internationally since 1981. He received a Lila Wallace Arts International Grant
in 1994 to work with the Quichua people of Ecuador and has curated numerous exhibitions
and written essays regarding the work of indigenous artists from the US Pueblos,
Juan Mata Ortiz Mexico, and Pastaza, Ecuador.
E rika Osborne
November 4, 2010
E rika Osborne
November 4, 2010
Erika Osborne received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Utah in painting
and drawing and her Master of Fine Arts from the University of New Mexico. Erika's
artwork deals directly with cultural connections to place and environment. She
has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, with six solo exhibitions
and over 30 group exhibitions in recent years. Erika has also been the recipient
of numerous grants and awards, locally, nationally and internationally. Her work
has been highlighted in regional publications along with national art magazines
such as "Art Papers", "Sculpture Magazine" and "Southwest Art Magazine".
X
iaoze Xie
January 20, 2011
January 20, 2011
Xiaoze Xie received his Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of
Arts & Design in Beijing and the University of North Texas. His 2004 solo
at Charles Cowles was reviewed in "The New York Times", "Art in America" and
"Art Asia Pacific". More recent shows have been reviewed in "Chicago Tribune",
"The Globe and Mail" and "San Francisco Chronicle". His work is in the permanent
collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary
Art and the Arizona State University Art Museum. Xie received the Pollock-Krasner
Foundation Grant in 2003 and artist awards from Phoenix Art Museum in 1999 and
Dallas Museum of Art in 1996. Xie is the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor
of Art at Stanford University.
February 24, 2011
Ayumi Horie received her Bachelor of Arts from Mount Holyoke College in 1991, her
Bachelor of Fine Arts in ceramics from the New York State College of Ceramics at
Alfred University in 1996, and her Master of Fine Arts in ceramics from the University
of Washington in 2000. Ayumi has taught workshops and given lectures at many universities,
art centers and residencies in the U.S. and abroad, including the Archie Bray Foundation,
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Greenwich House Pottery, Penland School of
Crafts, Peter’s Valley, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts, the Northern
Clay Center, and the International Ceramic Research Center in Denmark. Since 2004,
she has been on the board of directors at the Archie Bray Foundation, where she
was a resident for two years between 1996 and 1998. Her work is in various collections
throughout the US.
Michael Mercil
Michael Mercil
March 10, 2011 | Deem Distinguished Lecture
Michael Mercil is Chair of Graduate Studies and an Associate Professor in the Department
of Art at The Ohio State University. His artwork has recently been exhibited at
the Socrates Sculpture Park, NYC, Columbus Museum of Art, the North Dakota Museum
of Art, the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, and the University of Virginia
Art Museum. In 2006, he planted "The Beanfield" at the Wexner Center--a project
of the OSU Department of Art Living Culture Initiative. In 2008, he converted "The
Beanfield" into "The Virtual Pasture", where he now is raising a flock of Shetland
sheep. Mercil's public commissions include the Allegheny Riverfront Park in Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania, and Teardrop Park in New York City, both with artist Ann Hamilton
and landscape architect Michael Van Valkenburgh. His awards include a Batelle Endowment
for Technology and Human Affairs Research Award, Columbus Museum of Contemporary
Art, Columbus Genius Award, Jerome Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, a McKnight
Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Artist Design
Fellowship, Ohio Arts Council Fellowships, and a Progressive Architecture Citation
Award.
R
ichard Gleason & Chris Jones
April 7, 2011
April 7, 2011
Richard Gleason is a New York designer, photographer and art director. His clients
include Jones Apparel Group, which includes Anne Klein and Rachel Roy lines, Ocean
Star Apparel, Tommy Hilfiger, Surf/Bicycle/Run and other identity, web and print
clients. He graduated with a Bachelor or Fine Arts in graphic design and printmaking
from WVU. His experimental typography combined with innovative photographic techniques
result in sensational imagery.Chris Jones, WVU graphic design alumnus, is a partner
in Mediaworks, llc and owner of Kidtropolis in Alexandria, VA. The award-winning
studio works for E*TRADE, Johnson & Johnson, Comcast, AOL and Reuters among
others. Innovative projects from this versatile company has at times turned into
businesses on their own, such as Kidtropolis. Custom fantasy furniture and interiors
for kids through teens has allowed Chris to mix his interest in sculpture and product
design with functional environments.
Gary Radke
J. Bernard Schultz Lecture in Art History