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Description: Saying only “Beuys B Boys,” defendant JP Begley has thrown himself on the mercy of the Court of Public Opinion. He has sworn to tell the only the truth, and the whole truth; the evidence is on display, defense witnesses assembled. The prosecution has put the case before the jury. The verdict will be final. In or out, up or down, Yes or No, it’s in the jury’s hands to render a decision, to draw the line. It's time to uphold standards, vote for quality, eliminate the nonsense, and exercise your judgment. Now you decide. When was the last time an exhibition asked for your opinion?

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Description: The University of Louisville Hite Art Institute is pleased to announce a panel discussion inspired by the current exhibition ENID: 2013 to be held in the Seminar Room of the Cressman Center, 100 E. Main Street on Friday, February 1, 6-7pm. Dr. Decker of Georgetown University, Mary Dennis Kannapell of Pyro Gallery, a Louisville native sculptor Andrew Cozzens, and an avid public arts advocate Chris Radtke will participate in a discussion guided by moderator and exhibition coordinator Stacey Reason concerning Louisvillian and sculptor Enid Yandell, the condition of contemporary sculpture in regards to the exhibition, and sculpture as public art. The conversation will be lively and enriched with local art history, highlighting the recent and past achievement of the artists featured by the exhibition, while emphasizing the growing presence of public art in Louisville.

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Description: Matthew Higgs Artist, curator, writer and director of White Columns, New York and Janice Guy curator, artist, co-owner and director of the Murray Guy Gallery, New York will critique work by several pre-selected students. This event is open to all faculty and students. This event is held in conjunction with the Art & Dialogues series presented by the Speed Art Museum. The Speed Art Museum will host a public lecture on “The Changing Art World and the Value of Art” featuring Matthew Higgs and Janice Guy on Wednesday, February 6 from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm. The lecture will be held at the Horn Auditorium at the University of Louisville’s Business School. The Art & Dialogue series is a new programming initiative by the Speed Art Museum that presents nationally and internationally recognized art professionals to Louisville audiences.

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Description: In conjunction with the 2013 Allen R. Hite Memorial Lecture, Professors Caroline Arscott and Jongwoo Jeremy Kim will hold a public conversation on Modern art, victorian science, and the body from 10-11am.

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Description: Arscott will deliver an Evening Lecture from 6-7 pm. This lecture discusses William Morris’s adoption of tapestry in the 1880s in terms of its allegorisation of the losses and gains of both historical and biological processes. Colour and its role in the natural world, as discussed in evolutionary theory provides a focus. The processes of tapestry itself, the movement of the shuttle and positioning of the weft and the gradual building up of the image are considered in relation to the prophetic mode deployed by Morris in the verses written on his tapestries published in his Poems By the Way of 1891. The lecture centres on the example of the tapestry The Woodpecker (1885, exhibited 1888) where Morris’s woodpecker motif refers to the story of Picus from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. The context of metamorphosis leads to a discussion of the woodpecker’s significance in that Victorian revisiting of metamorphosis, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution. This is contextualised by a discussion of other Victorian theorisations of evolution and the evolutionary emergence of consciousness. The lecture discusses the morphology of form and the sequence of substitutions involved in sexual selection: the move from a reliance on the power of song to a recourse to instrumental music, and then a further move to the use of coloured display in creatures seeking an advantage in courtship. The declarative and the tacit aspects of Morris’s tapestry are addressed in order to assess the potential for the elaboration of grand themes in a form of art that seemingly abjures the grandiose theatre of human action.

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Description: Hazel Dodge, Louis Claude Purser Associate Professor in Classical Archaeology and Programme Co-Ordinator of Ancient and Medieval History and Culture in the Department of Classics, School of Humanitities and Histories at Trinity College, Dublin will present "Symbols of Victory and Colours of Power: Egyptian Stones for the City of Rome." Egypt, both the land and the culture, fascinated the Romans and once conquered furnished them with a whole array of resources, including stones for building and sculpture. The quarrying and use of stone had a very long tradition in Egypt, involving the transport of blocks 50-60 tons in weight over hundreds of miles. Red granite for the obelisks, such a characteristic type of Egyptian monument, was quarried by the pharaohs at Aswan in Southern Egypt. Obelisks were set up at sites all along the Nile valley, at Luxor, Karnak and Heliopolis. After the Roman conquest of Egypt, obelisks were the first large-scale physical pieces of Egypt to be transported to the imperial capital, where they were erected both as victory monuments and symbols of imperial ideology. Other stones shared in this ideology, in particular two stones which the Romans quarried in the Eastern Desert of Egypt the grey granite from Mons Claudianus and the purple porphyry Mons Porphyrites. This lecture will examine both the evidence from the quarries in Egypt and the effects of this phenomenon on the city of Rome. It will also examine the legacy of this practice in more recent times.

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Description: In conjunction with the Symposium, an exhibit curated by the University of Louisville graduate students from the Hite Art Institute is on view in the first floor KMAC gallery. The exhibit examines and challenges the conventional and often arbitrary distinctions between fine art and craft. Local and national contemporary artists who employ media or techniques traditionally associated with “craft” are featured. Artists include Cheryl Donegan, Hui Chi Lee, Bette Levy, Norma Minkowitz, Jeff Ruemeli, Joyce Scott, Peter Voulkos, and Boris Zakic

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Description: William Bailey is Professor of Art Emeritus at Yale University. He is a member of The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters and a Member of the Board, Smithsonian Archives of American Art from 2000 to the present. He is a trustee for the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation from 1970 to the present. Bailey has an extensive exhibition history, and his works appear in numerous public and private collections including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Museum of Modern Art, NY; National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; among many others. Bailey has shown in New York since the late 1960’s. In 2006 a traveling exhibition of works on paper was shown at the Philbroook Museum of Art, Tulsa, OK, Alexander Hogue Gallery, University of Tulsa, OK and Wichita Art Museum, KS. This exhibition features over thirty works on paper, which highlight both of Bailey's signature still life and figurative styles and illuminate his distinctive color palette.

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Description: Taking the ‘s’ out of Craft" is the Aegis 3rd Biennial Symposium on Art History and Visual Culture co-sponsored by the Hite Art Institute, University of Louisville and the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft (KMAC). Lydia Matthew will present the keynote address, "Craft Matters: Exchanging Knowledge in the Wake of Globalization." Matthews is Professor of Visual Culture and Director of the Curatorial Design Research Lab at Parsons The New School for Design in New York City, where she served as Dean of Academic Programs from 2006-2011. Trained as a contemporary art historian at UC, Berkeley and the University of London's Courtauld Institute, she worked as a cultural activist in the San Francisco Bay Area for over 20 years, founding the graduate program in Visual Critical Studies and co-directing the MFA Fine Arts program at California College of the Arts. Through international teaching, curating, and publishing, she explores how artists, artisans, designers, multi-disciplinary scholars and students can work together to foster democratic debates in the public sphere, and focuses on critical craft practices that inspire intimate community interactions. As a 2012 Fulbright Fellow, she co-curated various socially-engaged projects in Greece, Turkey and the Republic of Georgia, highlighting and catalyzing local responses to social and ecological crises resulting from globalization.

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Description: The Trolley Hop will present "William Bailey: Paintings Drawings Prints – works on paper." This exhibition includes over thirty works on paper, which highlight both of Bailey's signature still life and figurative styles and illuminate his distinctive color palette.

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Description: A Louisville native and Manual Visual Arts Magnet alumni, Ronay earned a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art and a MFA from Yale University. His work has been shown nationally and internationally. An opening reception and performance piece, Activation, will be presented by Ronay Thursday, March 7 from 5:00-6:30pm. The Artist will present the Nora Iasigi Bullitt Memorial Lecture in Room 205 of the Bingham Humanities Building following the reception.

Subject: Lecture

Description: Artist Matthew Ronay will present "Content Patterns", the Nora Iasigi Bullitt Memorial Lecture, in Room 205 of the Bingham Humanities Building. The lecture is presented in conjunction with his solo exhibition featured in the Schneider Hall Galleries. The lecture will immediately follow the opening reception of the exhibition which will include a performance work by the Artist.

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Description: Presented by the Center for Arts & Culture Partnerships. The Symposium’s Keynote Presentation will be delivered by Mary Miss who has founded the City as Living Laboratory, which provides a framework for making issues of social and environmental sustainability tangible through collaboration and the arts. Trained as a sculptor, her work creates situations emphasizing a site’s history, its ecology, or aspects of the environment that have gone unnoticed. Morning panelists will discuss recent public art projects in St. Louis, Nashville, and Long Beach, Calif. The featured artists have created or managed works in outdoor settings such as vacant city lots, flooded waterfronts and alongside urban waterways. Dan Jones, chairman and CEO of 21st Century Parks, will give the luncheon talk about the Parklands of Floyds Fork urban parks system project. The afternoon roundtable session about perspectives on public art will feature U of L professors discussing sacred sites in a global perspective, environmental history, urban planning and mapping as a tool to understand landscape.

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Description: This year's Kant’s Anarchist Aesthetics Lecture is delivered by David Carrier on Thursday, March 28, 2013 from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. Room 300, Bingham Humanities Building. Following the lecture will be a critique of student work in Schneider Hall Room 17 from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m.

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Description: William Bailey is Professor of Art Emeritus at Yale University. A reception will be held and a lecture presented by the artist at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts on Thursday, March 28 at 6:00pm in conjunction with the exhibition "William Bailey: Paintings Drawings Prints- works on paper." The Artist will present "Being of your time while yearning for more" in which he will discuss his work and its development over the years including his teachers, influences, contemporaries, and personal challenges.

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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 April 11 at Schneider Hall Galleries on Belknap Campus from 5:30-7:30pm. This show will feature the artwork of Amanda Bates, Drew Dingeldein, Corey Elmore, Samantha Grose, Sharon Marcum, Rachel Maucieri, Allan McGuffey, Kimberly Monroe, and Ryan O'Hare. 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.

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Description: A downtown rooftop perch for Thunder Over Louisville, convenient parking and an art-oriented family party – those are just some of the attractions at “Fire & Art 7: Thunder at the Cressman” offered by the University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute. The annual party will run from 3 p.m. to midnight Saturday, April 20, at UofL’s Cressman Center for Visual Arts, 100 E. Main St. at First Street. The gathering benefits the university’s fine arts programs. Visitors can watch students working in the center’s glass “hot shop” and enjoy family movies and other activities throughout the evening. Light refreshments will be included. Tables and seating will be available as visitors come and go to the Kentucky Derby Festival’s fireworks and air show on the waterfront. The top floor of the attached parking garage offers a vantage point for watching the show. Tickets are $30 for adults and $10 for children 5-12; children aged 4 and younger are free. A garage parking pass is $25. Space is limited so reservations are required.