Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: Featuring RETROSPECT: An exhibition of works from contemporary photographers and the University of Louisville Photographic Archives.

Subject: Performance

Description: "2012 U.S. Cities Contemporary Art Rankings: A New Hierarchical Approach" was first performed in 2011 with a crowd of thirty-five artists and creative workers in a Minneapolis gallery. Creating a second edition – this time, in a university setting, with a different group (many of whom have had careers elsewhere following their graduations from UofL), in an entirely different geographic and cultural part of the country – would yield an entirely different set of results. Many of the questions are the same, regardless of setting: is New York really America’s only truly world-class art center, or has L.A. become its peer? Does the influence of Harrell Fletcher in Portland and current widespread interest in social practice make that city a bona fide contemporary art capital? Is the relative lack of a traditional arts infrastructure in a city like Detroit offset by the influx of young artists that have moved there in the past ten years? Is Miami national grade all year-round, or just when Art Basel is going on? Using faux-sociological language, the project aims to crudely (and humorously) replicate the sort of Richard Florida-styled list-crafting that dominates much national discussion of contemporary art and placemaking. Located in that gray area between satire and earnest inquiry, the project draws on its audience's collective knowledge and investment in their own individual regional identities, as well as demonstrating the inherent limitations in reducing complex cultural and sociological factors into easily digestible charts, maps, and lists.

Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: This exhibition is composed of fifty-four alumni who received arts degrees from either a BA in Fine Arts, BFA In Studio Arts, BFA in Communication Arts and Design, BFA in Interior Architecture, MA in Studio Arts or MAT at the University of Louisville since 2000. They are currently working as artists, arts educators, designers, illustrators, curators, gallery directors and arts activists. They also may be running their own business and/or continuing their education (two are currently in PhD programs). Of the alumni in “Making it: Now”, twenty-seven have gone on to earn higher degrees at other institutions including Tyler School of Art, Yale University, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Virginia Commonwealth University, New York Academy of Art, Carnegie Mellon University, New York University, Rhode Island School of Art, University of Pennsylvania, Pratt, University of Cincinnati and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Some have stayed in Louisville or this region while others have moved to New York, Brooklyn, Philadelphia, San Francisco and all points between.

Subject: Other

Description: A panel discussion by University of Louisville Fine Arts Department alumni from the "Making it: Now" exhibition. Alumni will focus on their strategies for a career in the arts.

Subject: Lecture

Description: Amanda Briede graduated Summa cum Laude with her Bachelor of Fine Arts in glass and sculpture and a minor in Forensic Anthropology from the University of Louisville in 2009. She received her Master of Fine Arts in Craft/ Material Studies from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011. Amanda received the Allen R. Hite Scholarship and the Winthrop Allen Memorial Award from the Allen R. Hite Institute at the University of Louisville in 2008 and 2009 and the Graduate Thesis Grant from the Graduate School at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2011.She has attended and participated in demonstrations and lectures in four Glass Art Society Conferences and has shown work in galleries in Covington, Lexington, and Louisville, Kentucky and in Richmond, Virginia. After completing the Master of Fine Arts Program in Craft/Material Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University, Amanda moved back to Louisville, where she has been making and exhibiting her work in solo and group exhibitions.

Subject: Other

Description: In conjunction with Campus Preview Day.

Subject: Lecture

Description: An original and overdue exploration of the representation of masculinity in British academic art in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Painted Men in Britain, 1868–1918 analyzes transgressions of gender and sexuality as represented in paintings by Leighton, Sargent, Tuke, and their contemporaries in the Royal Academy. This volume treats paintings as eloquent objects, no narratives of which are too elusive to be traced, and challenges conventional binaries of masculine versus feminine or heterosexual versus homosexual. Consulting not only the paintings themselves but also newspapers, journals, criticism, novels, and poetry of the day, Painted Men argues against the misconception of British academic art as merely reactionary and even blind to the dynamism of its own time. Instead, this art is shown to engage with broader social attitudes and contemporary sexual debates. As the book reveals the complexities of specific paintings, it illuminates different and competing attitudes toward masculinity and modernity in British art of the period.

Subject: Conference

Description: "Madalena Schwartz and Documentary Photography in Brazil" by David William Foster (Ph.D., University of Washington, 1964). Dr. Foster is Regents Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. His research interests focus on urban culture in Latin America, with emphasis on issues of gender construction and sexual identity. He has written extensively on Argentine narrative and theater, and has held Fulbright teaching appointments in Argentina, Brazil, and Uruguay.

Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: BOB THOMPSON, (1937-1966) - In 1957, the same year that Federal troops were called in to escort black students in Little Rock, Bob Thompson, an African American artist, was granted an Allen R. Hite Art Scholarship to study at the University of Louisville. In 1959 he left Louisville for New York where he quickly and steadily gained success. In his brief life, Thompson produced well over 1,000 works, many of them monumental in scale and ambition. Although Thompson has been the subject of many exhibitions across the country, including a major retrospective at the Whitney in 1998, he is still not well-known in his hometown of Louisville. Seeking Bob Thompson will reintroduce the city of Louisville to one of its brightest talents. This exhibition is presented as part of the University of Louisville Fine Arts Department 75th Anniversary Celebration.

Subject: Reception

Description: In conjunction with the First Friday Trolley Hop and the University of Louisville Fine Arts Department 75th Anniversary Celebration, the Cressman Center for Visual Arts will host an opening reception and gallery talk for the exhibition "Seeking Bob Thompson." Curators, John Begley and Slade Stumbo, will discuss the history, artwork, and local heritage of the accomplished artist.

Subject: Other

Description: Born into a Czech family of glass workers, Martin Janecky began working in his father’s factory at the age of 13 before attending secondary school concentrating on glass art. Since his first visit to the United States in 2003, he has served repeatedly as an Artist in Residence and instructor at Penland, Pilchuck, Corning, Tacoma and Public Glass. Janecky received the 2006 Kaiser foundation Award and the 2008 Salvador Dali World Prize.

Subject: Lecture

Description: For more than ten years Stephen Cartwright has recorded his exact latitude, longitude and elevation every hour of every day. This data is embodied physically in his sculptural objects. While working in the exhibit industry, making displays and prototypes, Cartwright was introduced to the possibilities of digital fabrication, a technique he frequently uses in his current work. Cartwright was lured away from the exhibit industry to complete several grand bicycle journeys through North America, Europe and Asia, totaling more than 20,000 miles. He relished the complete immersion in the landscape and culture that selfcontained bicycle travel afforded. While Cartwright continues his work related to his latitude and longitude recordings, other recent work focuses on human alteration of the natural landscape. Cartwright earned a BA in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis and an MFA in Sculpture from Tyler School of Art. Cartwright is currently an assistant professor in sculpture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and longs for the topographical relief that informs his practice.

Subject: Other

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Subject: Other

Description: Bill Fischer is a life-long artist, having started painting in the late 1950’s and continuing on to as recently as 2011. The Hite Art Institute wish to recognize his accomplishments as an artist and his contributions to young artists at the University of Louisville with a dedication ceremony and reception in his honor. Bill Fischer has endowed the Bill Fischer Senior Project Grants which helps one student in 2-D studios and one student in 3-D studio each semester mount their Senior Exhibition based on their presentations during BFA reviews. In addition, he has underwriten the department’s studio spaces at Our Mother of Sorrows, now referred to as the “The Bill Fischer Studios.”

Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: The University of Louisville Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce the opening of the Fall 2012 BFA Thesis Exhibition at the Schneider Hall Galleries. The exhibition will display artwork in a variety of mediums of those students graduating with a Bachelor in Fine Arts from the Hite Art Institute. The Exhibition will open with a reception and remarks on November 29 at Schneider Hall Galleries on Belknap Campus from 5:30-7:30pm. This show will feature the artwork of Arin Ashley, Benjamin Cook, Julia Davis, Lana Wilson, Rachel Hagan, Sarah Hance, Jordan Lance Morgan, Charlotte Pollock, Patrick Rademaker, Philip Rodriguez, Jeff Ruemeli, and Lana Wilson. Each BFA candidate will contribute their unique vision as represented by a concentrated body of work developed to demonstrate their readiness to enter the professional art world upon graduation.

Subject: Lecture

Description: Presented by the Hite Art Institute and the Speed Art Museum. Dr. James Crump is Chief Curator at the Cincinnati Art Museum. With over twenty years in the field, his career is marked by ground-breaking exhibitions, publications, acquisitions, and programming for learning and interpretation. The exhibitions Dr. Crump curated in recent years include: American Photographs: Diane Arbus, Lee Friedlander, Richard Avedon; Image Conscious: Photography and Contemporary Art; Garry Winogrand: Women Are Beautiful; Doug Aitken: Electric Earth, Starburst: Color Photography in America 1970—1980; Walker Evans: Decade by Decade; Doug and Mike Starn: Gravity of Light; and Herb Ritts: LA Style (with the J. Paul Getty Museum).

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Description: Benefitting the Ceramic Arts Organization. Friday, November 30, 8am-8pm and Saturday December 1, 10am-2pm. Cash and Check Only. University of Louisville, 2314 South Floyd Street, HPES Building, Room 136, Corner of Floyd and Warnock.

Subject: Lecture

Description: Kristine Stiles, Duke University France Family Professor of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, is one of the leading authorities on the subject of artists’ writings. She has edited a primary resource for artists’ writings, Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists’ Writings (University of California Press), which has just been published in an updated, revised, and expanded second edition in 2012. Theories and Documents features over three hundred artists from thirty different countries speaking for themselves on issues related to the production and philosophy of contemporary art. Stiles is also the editor of Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle (Duke University Press), a volume for which she selected, edited, annotated, and introduced the correspondence written and received by Schneemann over a forty year period. The letters provide an epistolary history of Schneemann and other figures central to the international avant-garde of Happenings, Fluxus, performance, and conceptual art, including the composer James Tenney, the filmmaker Stan Brakhage, the artist Dick Higgins, the dancer and filmmaker Yvonne Rainer, the poet Clayton Eshleman, and the psychiatrist Joseph Berke. Stiles has also conducted interviews with dozens of contemporary artists over the course of her career.

Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: Digging into the origin of the very word hybrid, you come across a Latin term rarely used before 1850; the term is IBRIDA. Hybrid/ Ibrida is considered an amalgamation of disparate parts resulting in a uniquely homogenized whole. A curious collection of biomorphic forms inspired by botany, entomology, and human anatomy embody my sculptural work. The inside turns outside, the micro turns macro and each piece conveys human attributes through poise and posture. I invite my audience to approach each piece with thoughts of wonder, possibility, protection and vulnerability during my Master’s Thesis Exhibit at The Falls of the Ohio Interpretive Center.