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Have Passport – Will Travel a Fletcher Library Exhibit

May 22, 2013 · West campus · (No comments)

Exhibit:  Have Passport – Will Travel

Artist:  An International Travel Photography exhibition by Paula Cullison, travel writer and photographer.

Location:  Fletcher Library, at the West campus: Third floor

Available:  June 3 through June 30th, 2013 during normal library hours

Description:

New York City born, long-time Valley resident, Paula Cullison has a passion for international travel. An independent traveler, she has visited over 30 countries. Upon graduating from college, she worked in Switzerland on an AIESEC traineeship and has attended several international conferences through her involvement with the United Nations Association. Her published travel articles, photographs and book, Daughters of the American Dream, can be found on her website www.paulacullison.com

For further information: 602-863-9744 or paulacullison@aol.com

TRAnSFoRmATion Exhibit at Fletcher Library

May 7, 2013 · West campus · Comments Off

Exhibit: TRAnSFoRmATion

Artists: South Mountain High School, Center for Visual Arts

Location: Fletcher Library, at the West campus: second and third floors

Available: May 6 – June 1, 2013 during normal library hours

Description:

A marked change, as in appearance or character, usually for the better, Transformation is the theme for South Mountain High School’s annual art exhibition at the ASU West’s Fletcher Library for 2013. Art students in all of the visual arts classes including the magnet program interpreted the idea of transformation through the lens of their various disciplines: ceramics, digital arts, drawing, painting, fiber arts, jewelry and photography. They used it to express their own spirit, observations and idea.

For further information: http://phoenixunion.schoolwires.net//site/Default.aspx?PageID=2306

‘Imagine This’ Quilt Exhibit

April 15, 2013 · Polytechnic campus · Comments Off
'Imagine This' Quilt

“African Stars” by Janice M. Parson

Exhibit: Imagine This

Artists: Cocoa Quilters

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: April 6, 2013 –June 30, 2013 during normal library hours

Description: An exhibit of six African American quilts is currently on display at the Arizona State University Polytechnic Campus Library. The exhibit features the works of Sharon Hudson-Clinton, Pamela Howard, Kim James, Janice Parson, Gwendolyn Smith, and Sheila Woods Stokes. These quilters are members of a group called Cocoa Quilters. There will be a mix of old and new quilts that reflects the tradition and the art of modern quilt making.

The Liquid Project: A Photographic Exhibition

March 28, 2013 · West campus · Comments Off

Exhibit: The Liquid Project: A photographic exhibition that questions our understanding of beauty and art.

Available: April 1 through April 30th during normal library hours

Location: Fletcher Library, second floor, West campus

Description: With a total of 27 photographic pieces of liquid, all created over a two year span, Chace’s Liquid Project give us insight into the many colours, textures, tones, and forms liquid can take. From the simplicity of “Flicker” to the intricacy of “Gi”, these vivid images are meant to show the extremes of liquid and perhaps reveal the beauty of something we see almost every day…something so typical yet vital, something so basic but fundamental, and something so flexible yet strong. Not many substances can claim these features and not many photographers have taken such a fresh approach to capturing liquid.

Special Event: An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, April 4th from 6 – 8 pm, Fletcher Library second floor atrium.

For more information please go to www.chacephotography.com or email: ctaylor@chacephotography.com or

Lucy’s Legacy: Preserving the Search for Human Origins (Exhibit)

March 19, 2013 · Hayden Library · Comments Off

Exhibit:  Lucy’s Legacy:  Preserving the Search for Human Origins; Donald C Johanson / Institute of Human Origins Collection

Location:  Hayden Library Rotunda, Luhrs Gallery (4th Floor)

Available:  Through Spring 2013, during normal library hours

Special Event:  Panel Discussion and Opening Reception, March 21, Hayden Library Room C6A/East, 3:30pm

Opening Presentation and Recption Event Photographs

Description:  “LUCY”—named the “Queen of the Fossil Skeletons” by the journal Science—has become the milestone by which all other discoveries in human origins are measured.

Discovered in Hadar, Ethiopia, November 24, 1974, by a young paleoanthropologist, Donald Johanson, and determined to be a new species—Australopithecus afarensis—Lucy was the first example of an upright walking, bipedal human ancestor, living 3.2 million years ago. Other examples of this species have been found, but none as complete as this specimen.

In 1981, Johanson created the Institute of Human Origins in Berkeley, California. The institute moved to ASU in 1997 and has become one of the preeminent research centers in the world for the study of human origins.

Over the past 30 years, the institute has continued its founding mission focused on multidisciplinary research to understand how we “became human,” educating the next generation of scientists and extending its research into the public arena. Johanson’s career as a scientist and champion of public awareness for the science of human origins represents the history and, sometimes controversial and contentious, evolution of ideas about human origins.

This exhibition—here in the Hayden Library Rotunda and on the 4th floor in the Luhrs Gallery—is a first step in assessing and preserving a collection that encompasses the largely intact life’s work of one of the most important field scientists of the 20th century and the creation and growth of a research institute that continues forward-thinking research into the course and timing of human development. The collection will provide scholars with a resource for understanding the historical, social, and cultural progress of scientific ideas about our human origins.

This project was funded through a Seed Grant from Institute for Humanities Research, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.  It was created in partnership with Institute of Human Origins, School of Human Evolution and Social Change; Museum Studies Program, School of Human Evolution and Social Change; Public History Program, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, and University Archives, ASU Libraries.

 

Hayden Library Exhibit: Dante’s Inferno by artist Sandow Birk

February 1, 2013 · Hayden Library · Comments Off

Exhibit: Dante’s Inferno by artist Sandow Birk

Location:  Hayden Library, Rotunda on the entrance level

Available:  Through March 3, 2013, during normal library hours

Description:  Sandow Birk provides a 21st  century adaptation of Dante’s 14th century epic poem of the descent into Hell, set in contemporary urban America.

About the artist: “Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a well traveled graduate of the Otis/Parson’s Art Institute. Frequently developed as expansive, multi-media projects, his works have dealt with contemporary life in its entirety. With an emphasis on social issues, frequent themes of his past work have included inner city violence, graffiti, political issues, travel, war, and prisons, as well as surfing and skateboarding. He was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City in 1995 to study mural painting, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Fulbright Fellowship for painting to Rio de Janeiro for 1997. In 1999 he was awarded a Getty Fellowship for painting, followed by a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship in 2001. In 2007 he was an artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2008. His most recent project involves a consideration of the Qur’an as relevant to contemporary life in America.” (from the artist’s web page at   http://www.sandowbirk.com/)

Vault Gallery Presents: Photography of Kathryn Mohrman

January 22, 2013 · Downtown Phoenix campus · Comments Off

Exhibit:  Photography of Kathryn Mohrman

Location:  Vault Gallery, Downtown Phoenix campus Library. (Located in UCENT Lower Level)

Available: Through end of February 2013, during normal library hours

Artist’s Statement:  About five years ago I began to explore photography more seriously than simply taking snapshots. I was intrigued by the possibility of capturing emotions as well as recording my travels. Through photo classes I found I was seeing shapes, colors, textures in new ways. I began to be more sensitive to the world around me, from large (the majesty of the Grand Canyon, the colors of the sky at sunset) to small (the stamens of a flower, the shadows cast by a lace curtain).

Great photographers say that what they exclude from their pictures is as important as what they include.
I will be curious to know what you see in these photographs. What do you think I should have included that I didn’t? What in these pictures could have been excluded?

In deciding which photos to exhibit, I discovered that I gravitate toward a series of broad themes, among them color, reflections, windows, and faces. Do you see other themes in this selection of photographs?

While color is not essential for a great photograph, color is often what catches my eye first. The riot of color in our world makes “looking” an inspiring and exciting activity.

Reflections appeal to me because the viewer gets multiple images, not just one version of reality. In this exhibit, reflections take several forms including mirrors, water, and windows, even green glass balls.

I think of windows as a way to gain a glimpse of another world. Some of these photos frame a slice of nature through a window frame, while others give a glimpse from the outside of a shady interior.

And of course we humans are instinctively drawn to faces, to images of the wide variety of people who inhabit our world. For a long time I was afraid to take pictures of people, not wanting to be an intruder, but I discovered that many people are flattered to be photographed. Children often ask to have their pictures taken so they can see themselves in the back of the camera. Convulsive giggles often follow.

Of course these four themes overlap in the photos in this exhibit. There are windows with reflections, faces in windows, colorful reflections, and colorful faces. The combinations make it fun!

About the Artist:  Kathryn Mohrman is Professor of Practice in the School of Public Affairs; she also directs ASU projects in China and Vietnam.

“Echoes” Mixed-media Visual Arts Exhibit at Fletcher Library

January 22, 2013 · West campus · Comments Off

Exhibit: Echoes —-a mixed-media visual arts exhibit

Sponsorship:  This event is sponsored by the Cultural Arts Coalition

Location: Fletcher Library, west campus

Available: January 18 – March 8, 2013 during normal library hours

Description:
Echoes —-a mixed-media visual arts exhibit—will be displayed at Arizona State University West campus, Fletcher Library (2nd and 3rd floors), January 22 – March 8, 2013. The exhibit features the work of previous South Mountain High School visual arts students and teachers, and artists-in-residence who have all collaborated on community projects.

This exhibit is an “echo” of the SMHS art program (1995 – 2010) and is curated by Marc Arvallo (SMHS class of 2009) and Janet Broyles, SMHS Visual Arts teacher (1992 – 2010). According to Marc, “this exhibit has tapped into each of the participating artists’ lives. Through the process of making art, we are reminded of who we are, where we came from and where we have yet to go. But ultimately this exhibit has shown us how closely connected and united we truly are as students, as artists and as humans.”

An opening reception is scheduled for Thursday, February 7, 2013, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, in the Fletcher Library Conference Room, 4701 Thunderbird Road, Glendale, AZ 85306.

This event is sponsored by the Cultural Arts Coalition. Judy Butzine, co-founder of the Coalition states: “The South Mountain teachers and students have routinely exhibited within our community, and in so doing, have expanded the students’ creativity and have allowed them to visualize the realities of their present and their hopes for the future.” For more Information about the Cultural Arts Coalition, go to: http://www.artsCare.org/cac.intro.shtml

“Portraits of Nature: Blending Science and Art” at Polytechnic campus Library (Exhibits)

January 18, 2013 · Polytechnic campus · Comments Off

Mexican Gold Poppy, © Susan E. Ashton

Exhibit: Portraits of Nature – Blending Science and Art

Artists: Southwest Society of Botanical Artists

Location: Polytechnic campus Library

Available: Jan. 4, 2013 – March 30, 2013 during normal library hours

Description: Join in a celebration of the beauty of nature at this juried exhibition by the Southwest Society of Botanical Artists (SWSBA). Examine the works close-up to explore the intricacy and beauty of flora and fauna.
SWSBA is the Arizona chapter of the American Society of Botanical Artists (ASBA). SWSBA’s members have backgrounds in fine arts, graphic arts, business, technology, and education, but they all share a love of the natural world, especially plants.

Botanical art combines science and art. Artists seek to understand the structure of plants and to communicate this knowledge in an aesthetically pleasing manner. The range of styles includes scientific illustration, usually in pen and ink, as well as realistic drawing and painting of botanical subjects in watercolor and other media. Centuries of notable botanical art created for botanists, physicians, plant collectors, horticulturists, and connoisseurs continue to inspire today’s botanical artists.

This exhibit includes a variety of artworks by local artists and includes native plants of Arizona, plants of other locales, and creatures of the natural world.

For more information about ASBA, see http://asba-art.org/

“Anxiety and Creation” Photography Exhibit at Fletcher Library

November 12, 2012 · West campus · Comments Off

Exhibit: Anxiety and Creation: An applied project photography exhibit by Layne Baumgardner

Available: November 19 – December 3, 2012,  during normal library hours

Location: Fletcher Library, Second Floor

Event:  Exhibit opening on November 19th from 5:00 – 6:00 PM

Description: This project seeks to explain that anxiety can be understood by looking through multiple theoretical lenses; namely sociology, psychology and philosophy, to create a holistic view of the phenomenon.

An astounding 18% of adults 18 and older in the United States suffer from an anxiety disorder. It is a least uncomfortable and at most debilitating, but, where anxiety has the ability to isolate, art has the ability to bring together. Nicolas Bourriaud calls art “a site that produces specific sociability,” and I argue that art has the potential to support exchanges that may not occur in modern daily life.

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