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Zed Saeed (MFA student) produced a series of photography for the Louisville Magazine's October 2017 issue. His work is also featured on the cover of the magazine.

Miranda Becht (MFA 2017) has been accepted into the Hadley Creatives Program. Through a competitive application process, 15 artists who demonstrate potential and readiness to pursue a career as a working artist have been selected for this professional development program. The Community Foundation is partnering with Creative Capital to develop a curriculum that will help local artists build their professional practice, cultivate an expanded peer network, and dedicate time for reflection and planning.

Miranda is currently teaching at the Department of Art of Bellarmine University.

The thesis research project of Scott Rollins (MA student in Curatorial and Critical Studies) on the performance artist Richard Gallo is featured on the cover of Office magazine, a magazine based in NYC, circulated nationally and internationally.

Last night (September 28), Dr. Jongwoo Jeremy Kim and curator Miranda Lash gave two lively gallery tours at the Speed Art Museum. Their talks focused on queer artists in the exhibition "Southern Accent: Seeking the American South in Contemporary Art" to celebrate the LGBT Center's 10th anniversary.

Cressman Center for Visual Arts
On View: September 22 - October 28, 2017
Reception: October 6, 2017 6-8 pm

The Hite Art Institute is pleased to present “Overshadowed,” a collaborative, experimental exhibition that examines the meeting point between photography, landscape, and astronomy. 

“Overshadowed” began as a collaborative project between University of Louisville professor Mary Carothers (Fine Arts) and photographer Brian McClave, who has developed (along with brother Gareth) a slow-scan technique for producing photographic images. “Slow Scan” photography composites thousands of images into a single digital file. “The images go through software that slices them up chronologically then rebuilds the image, which gives the scanning effect,” says McClave. Each image in “Overshadowed” is a composite of over 4,000 individual images shot over a three-hour period during the 2017 Great American Eclipse. In order to produce all of these images, Carothers and McClave invited photographers, including professors, graduate students, and professionals, to capture the eclipse in all of the states across its Path of Totality. Participants included Marcus "Doc" Cravens, a former Marine Corps medic who worked in Afghanistan and Iraq, University of Louisville Astronomy Professor Benne Holwerda, and the Hite Art Institute’s professor Mitch Eckert.

Each slow scan photograph in the show is unique, but each is also connected to the series as a whole via a single unifying subject—a momentary lack of light produced by the moving eclipse. In this respect at least the exhibition mirrors the eclipse phenomenon, wherein every person and place along the Path of Totality momentarily shares in a collective, moving event. And this indeed poses a challenge for the photographic medium—how do you capture a single event over time and in many places? The slow scan method poses one solution. That is, these pictures do not capture how the eclipse looks but rather how it was experienced (in many places and by many people over time). The project is thus a meditation on the relationship between photographic technology and natural phenomena, and between technology and collaborative image making.

McClave is a photographer and co-founder of site-eye, a British time-lapse film production company. He is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design’s photography program. Also a graduate of RISD’s program, Mary Carothers is an artist and professor of photography at the University of Louisville’s Hite Art Institute. 

Brian McClave will return to Louisville for his lecture, Space, Place and Time at Chao Auditorium Monday, October 2nd from 3:00-5:00pm. The lecture is sponsored by Liberal Studies Project at the University of Louisville. The Overshadowed reception is First Friday, Oct 06 from 6:00-8:00pm at the Cressman Center for Visual Arts.

View the Press Release

On View: September 28 - October 28, 2017
Reception: October 5, 2017

Adhar/Sky/Ciel is an exhibition by three photographers based on Uist, an isle off the northwest coast of Scotland. Ruairadh Macdonald from North Uist, Iain A Monk from Benbecula and Jean-François Martin from South Uist are all dedicated photographers of the Hebridean sky.

Professors Christopher Fulton (Art History) and Chris Reitz (Curatorial Studies) took the Hite Art Institute's students to Chicago last weekend for Art Expo. The whirlwind tour of the windy city included stops at Murakami's MCA retrospective, the Art Institute, and of course the art fair (with a special lecture stop to see Nadya Tolokno discuss art criticism and rock and roll!). Special thanks to Linda Rowley for chaperoning and organizing!

Professor Ben Hufbauer was interviewed and quoted by a reporter at the Chicago Tribune for this article on the future Obama Presidential Center.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/obamacenter/ct-will-obamas-be-buried-jackson-park-library-site-met-20170914-story.html

Hite alumna Mary Clore (BA, Art History and BFA, 2D Studios, Magna cum Laude 2016) featured in Louisville Visual Art's Vignette.

http://www.louisvillevisualart.org/artebella/2017/9/15/vignette-mary-clore

Professor Delin Lai will speak at the "Rethinking Pei: A Centenary Symposium" to be held at Harvard University on October 12-13, 2017. Professor Lai will present his paper "Defining the Present Perfect Tense of I. M. Pei's Architectural Space" on three of I. M. Pei's projects in China and Japan.

"I.M. Pei (1917- ) remains one of the most celebrated yet under-theorized architects of the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Though Pei’s six-decade career is mostly identified with his unwavering interest in cultural synthesis and the power of pure geometrical form, his work and methods of practice offer additional opportunities for investigating their dynamic intertwinement within multiple, consequential moments in the history of mid- to late twentieth century architecture, and their relationships with broader social, cultural, and geopolitical phenomena."

Professor Mitch Eckert has a solo exhibition, FLORA/FAUNA at the John Sloan Fine Arts Center Gallery at Lock Haven University. The exhibition combines his newest photographic explorations in natural history museums along with photographs created in botanic and formal gardens in the US, Italy and the UK. The exhibition runs through the end of September. Professor Eckert gave an artist talk on his creative process to the faculty and students on Tuesday September 5th.

The Hite Art Institute participated in the Art in the Park at the Speed Art Museum on Sunday, September 10. MFA students directed art projects and Professor Steve Skaggs performed calligraphy.

Great to see students, faculty and staff at the Hite Welcome Back event this year. A big thank you to all of those who came and to Artist & Craftsman Supply Louisville, Preston Arts Center and Bridwell Art Library for your time and making the event a hit. We are off to great start this year!

Spend the Spring semester to study art in Hong Kong.

Participate in the exchange program established between the University of Louisville and Hong Kong Baptist University to study in one of the most exciting cities in the world.

The Academy of Visual Arts (AVA@HKBU) offers the most comprehensive art program in Hong Kong. For more information about the program at the Academy of Visual Arts, visit the Academy’s website: http://ava.hkbu.edu.hk/

To receive the college’s nomination, the successful candidate for this exchange must complete a preliminary application by September 12, 2017. Interested students should immediately contact Prof. Ying Kit Chan, phone: 852-0806 or e-mail: chan@louisville.edu.

Hite MFA candidate Douglas Miller will be in a two-person show "Works by Douglas Miller and Kevin Titzer" at Galerie d'art la Corniche in Chicoutimi, Quebec, Canada. The opening will take place on Thursday, September 14 at 5 pm and the exhibition will continue until September 30.