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.

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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.

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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.

Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: An exhibition featuring the work of UofL Fine Arts Professor JP Begley and EKU Professor Emeritus Darryl Halbrooks.

Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: Featuring the work of a Louisville, Kentucky-based collective of female artists known as ENID. The name is taken from that of the first recognized female sculptor from Louisville, Enid Yandell. Yandell (1869-1924) successfully competed against male artists of her period, winning many important commissions. Notably, she worked on the famous 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition (and World Fair) in Chicago. Yandell went on to become a member of the National Sculpture Society, the oldest organization of professional sculptors in the United States. In 1998, a group of local female artisans formed a collective to promote their own sculptural works. They decided to also promote the memory of their pioneering predecessor by naming their group ENID, in honor of Yandell. Today, the collective shows its work throughout the Ohio Valley region. Members’ ages range from 33-88 years with several members having varying levels of education, from self-taught sculptors through those with graduate degrees. Fifteen artists will be featured in the exhibition including Shawn Marshall, Valerie Fuchs, Joyce Ogden, Gayle Cerlan, Cynthia Reynolds, Suzanne Mitchell, Sarah Frederick, Gloria Wachtel, Mary Dennis Kannapell, Jeanne Dueber, Jacque Parsley, Fran Kratzok, Elizabeth Kirkwood, Caren Cunningham, and Ewing Fahey.

Subject: Art Exhibit

Description: The exhibition of over 100 works of art and artifacts includes a wide variety of textiles, and examples of craftwork in leather, metal, glass, jewelry, felt, stone and clay. Textiles span a range of uses, including camel bags, pillows, curtains, fans, hats, shoes and window hangings. Metal wares cover a gamut from silver and brass vessels, jewelry, and braziers to drinking and cooking vessels and inlaid trays. Wooden objects include antique wood lattice windows from Egypt (mushrabbiya). The exhibition features works of art drawn from the Gray Henry collection, whose family has had a presence in Egypt since 1925.

Subject: Lecture

Description: The Hite Art Institute and the Jewish Community Center present this lecture in conjunction with the Exhibition held at the Jewish Community Center Gallery. Arturo Alonzo Sandoval, Professor of Art at the University of Kentucky, creates a new aesthetic with his contemporary fiber art objects using 20th Century recycled industrial materials such as computer tape, battery cable, microfilm, Mylar, holographic film and Lurex. Using a floor loom, sewing machine, or hand interlacing techniques he constructs works that are visually and technically complex. Sandoval’s fiber mixed media art works are in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Art and Design NY. His works have been exhibited extensively regionally and nationally and have included the 8th and 14th Biennial of Tapestry in Lausanne, Switzerland and the Textile Triennial in Lodz, Poland. His creative efforts have been awarded two NEA Visual Arts Fellowships.