Info And Schedule
Jun 30, 2008
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Dec 31, 2007
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JUNE 2008 EVENTS
SUNDAY, JUNE 1
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Gail Kendall has been working in clay since 1970. She is the Hixson-Lied Professor of Art at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, where
she has been teaching since 1987.
Dan Bailey is a self taught turner. He has taught
multiple summers at Anderson Ranch and
other nationally known art centers. His work is in
several private collections.
Isa Catto Shaw’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the US and abroad. She has spent
the last 13 years working in watercolor and mixed
media and teaching workshops at arts
centers worldwide.
She received her BA from Williams College and studied at Parsons School of Design in New York,
the University of Colorado at Boulder and Anderson Ranch Arts Center.
JUNE 3 – 27, 2008
Resident Artist and Staff Exhibition
Tuesday, June 3. Gallery Reception, 5 to 7 pm.
This exhibition features work from the Anderson Ranch’s resident artists and staff. Patton Malott
and Gartner Galleries
TUESDAY, JUNE 3
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Keiko Hara was raised in Japan, and educated
there and in the US. She holds an MFA from Cranbrook
Academy of Art. She has exhibited in the US
and internationally, and is a recipient of a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant. She has taught at the
University of Wisconsin and Whitman College in Washington.
Jenna Goldberg earned an MFA at RISD in furniture
design and currently teaches woodworking at RISD
in the industrial design department. She is the
recipient of a North Carolina Arts Council award and a Rhode Island Council for the Arts grant. Her work,
which is exhibited nationally, can be found in the
Mint Museum of Craft and Design in Charlotte, NC,
and at the Smithsonian’s Renwick Galleryin Washington DC.
Robin Hill is on the sculpture faculty of the University of California/Davis. Her work is represented by Lennon Weinberg, Inc. New York, and Don Soker Contemporary Art in San Francisco. An interview with Hill entitled “Handmade, Repetition, Narrative” can be
found at www.othervoices.org/3.1/rhill/index.php.
SUNDAY, JUNE 8
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Robynn Smith is a widely exhibited painter and
printmaker living in Santa Cruz, California. She is
the chair of the art department at Monterey Peninsula College. Her recent residency fellowships
include Frans Masereel Centrum in Belgium and
Atelier de l’ile in Canada.
Willie Birch, a native of New Orleans, incorporates political, sociological and spiritual elements in
works that are inspired by the celebratory rituals of
his neighborhood. The work of Willie Birch is collected by museums as well as public and private collections across
the country, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the New Orleans Museum of Art and Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.
TUESDAY, JUNE 10
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Robert Amesbury grew up in Guam and studied art at Harvard University. His paintings are
included in the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard and
corporate and private collections. He lives in Brooklyn and is represented by Bernard Toale
Gallery.
Constantine Manos is a member of Magnum Photos. His
books include Portrait of A Symphony, A Greek Portfolio, Bostonians, and American Color. His photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum
of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, Houston
Museum of Fine Arts, the Boston Museum of
Fine Arts and others. In 2003 he was awarded the Leica Medal of Excellence
out of a global field of 250 entries.
FRIDAY, JUNE 13
Auctionette, 11:45 am to 1 pm
Join us for a lively lunchtime mini auction featuring work by faculty, students and staff.
Lunch service is a half an hour and starts at 11:45 am. Auctionettes start promptly at 12:15 pm and end at 1 pm.
Schermer Meeting Hall, BBQ Buffet Lunch $10
SUNDAY, JUNE 15
Evening with the Artists,7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Kathleen Loe is an artist, curator and writer living in Boulder and New Orleans. She is currently
on the faculty of Pont Aven School of Contemporary
Art in Brittany, France.
She earned an MFA at Queens College of City
University of New York.
Susan Hagen is an artist, writer and educator, and the recipient of awards from the George Sugarman Foundation, the Leeway Foundation, & Independence Foundation.Her work is currently
represented by Center of the Earthe Gallery in Charlotte, NC, and Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia. Her exhibition of site specific sculptural dioramas, “Recollection Tableaux,” will be on exhibit at Eastern State Penitentiary
Historic Site in Philadelphia thru November 2008.
Tai Pomara is a former studio manager, summer teaching
assistant and workshop instructor at Anderson Ranch, and studio assistant to sculptor James Surls. His work had been exhibited in the San Jose State School of Art Galleries, where he
received his MFA, the Aspen Biennial, the Evelyn Siegel Gallery in Texas and at
Anderson Ranch.
TUESDAY, JUNE 17
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Tommy White in a painter who lives and works
in New York City. He is currently on the faculty
at Princeton University.
He was a 2007 recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship.
Michael Fortune has designed and made
furniture since 1975 for private residences across North America. He received the prestigious Bronfman Award in 1993, was inducted into the Royal Canadian Academy
of the Arts in 2000, and received the 2007 Award of
Distinction from the Furniture Society. After graduating from Sheridan College near Toronto in 1974, he interned with Alan Peters in Devon, England.
Francisco Souto was born in Venezuela, earned his MFA
from Ohio State University, and has taught in the US and abroad. He has participated in a wide range
of international exhibitions, including theKochi Triennial Exhibition of Prints, Japan;the Novosibirsk International Biennialof Contemporary Graphic Art,Russia; the British International Miniature Print Exhibition; and the International Print Biennial, Bulgaria. He currently teaches in
the department of Art and Art History at the
University of Nebraska/Lincoln.
SUNDAY, JUNE 22
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm, Schermer Meeting Hall
Joshua Davis is a New York-based artist, designer and technologist who currently serves as a professor at the School of Visual Arts in New York City.
He is creator of the award winning Web sites PrayStation.com, OnceUponAForest, Cyphen and Dreamless. Joshua was named one of
the Ten Most Creative People by the Internet Professional Publisher’s Association (IPPA).
His work has been shown at numerous national and international venues.
His book, lash to the Core:An Interactive Sketchbook,
has become a bestseller.
Robert Berlind has taught extensively in studio art and art history. A graduate of Yale (MFA, 1963), his honors include the Benjamin Altman Prize
in Painting, a National Academy award, aPollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Paintingand an award in painting from the American Academy &
Institute of Arts & Letters. He is represented by the Tibor de Nagy Gallery in New York, and writes for
Art in America and other publications.
Christian Burchard completed a furniture apprenticeship in Hamburg, Germany, and studied sculpture at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston,and at Emily Carr College in Vancouver.
He has been a fulltime studio woodturner and teacher
since 1982. His work isincluded in numerous permanent collections,including the Oregon Arts Commission, Smithsonian Institution,
and the Royal Cultural Center in Jedda, Saudi Arabia.
He’s been featured in publications such as American Craft, American Woodturner, and The Fine Art of Wood.
MONDAY, JUNE 23
Film in cooperation with Aspen Film Festival and School, 7 pm, Schermer Meeting Hall
TUESDAY, JUNE 24
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Brad Schwieger earned an MFA at Utah State University,
and currently teaches at Ohio University. Last year he received a Purchase Award at the NCECA National Biennial in Louisville, KY. His work was also included in the International Ceramics Symposium and Exhibition in Bechyne, Czech Republic.
Mary Lucier has made work in many mediums, including sculpture, photography, video, installation and performance. Her work has been shown internationally
in museums, galleries, alternative spaces
and festivals, and is part of many public and
private collections.
In 2007 she was awarded the Skowhegan Medal for Video.
Dan Welden is an educator, painter, author and master printmaker. He owns and directs
Hampton Editions, Ltd. in Sag Harbor, NY, and directs his own school
in Florence, Italy. He has taught at Long Island University and
Central Connecticut State University. Recognition for his work includes a 2004 Film Grant from the Vogelstein Foundation. Welden is co-author of Printmaking in the Sun (Watson Guptill).
THURSDAY, JUNE 26
Duke Ellington Students Special Presentation, 12:30 pm, Schermer Meeting Hall
Four high school juniors who are visual arts majors
from the Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington D.C. will present slides of their artwork. These students have been selected to take workshops at the Ranch through a special scholarship program.
FRIDAY, JUNE 27
Auctionette, 11:45 am -1 pm, Schermer Meeting Hall, BBQ Buffet Lunch $10.
Join us for a lively lunchtime mini auction featuring
work by faculty, students and staff. Lunch service
is a half an hour and starts at 11:45 am.
Auctionettes start promptly at 12:15 pm and
end at 1 pm.
SUNDAY, JUNE 29
Evening with the Artists, 7 pm
Schermer Meeting Hall
Sam Harvey is co owner and operator of the successful Harvey/Meadows Gallery in Aspen.
Sam is a ceramic artist with a BFA from the
Kansas City Art Institute and an MFA from Alfred University. Sam has been involved with theRanch as an assistant, resident, faculty,
supporter and volunteer.
Yuri Kobayashi learned woodworking at TakumiJuku,
Japan, in a unique contemporary apprenticeship
program. After four years of serving as an assistant
at the school, she moved to the US where she earned
her MFA
in furniture design at San Diego State University.
She is currently teaching at the Rhode Island School of Design in the furniture design
department. Her work involves creating functional
and non functional objects using traditional wood working techniques.
Kristy Deetz, currently an associate professor
of painting and drawing at the University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, has taught at a number
of universities and art schools over the past
20 years. Her work has been shown extensively throughout the US. |
