Visiting Artist: 2011-12
Visiting Artist: Alleghany Meadows
Lecture: Tuesday, February 7th at 12:00pm in the Bowe Street Bldg., 609 Bowe Street, rm 535
Alleghany Meadows is a gallery owner and studio potter in Carbondale, Colorado. He received his BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA, and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University. Alleghany studied with Takashi Nakazato, Karatsu, Japan, received a Watson Foundation Fellowship for field study of potters in Nepal, and was an artist-in-residence at Anderson Ranch Arts Center. Alleghany has presented lectures, workshops and been a visiting artist at many art centers and universities nationally and internationally, including Penland, Alfred, Southern Methodist University, Anderson Ranch, Archie Bray Foundation, Arrowmont, Haystack and Good Hope, Jamaica. He exhibits nationally and is the founder of Artstream Nomadic Gallery, co-founder of Harvey/Meadows Gallery, Aspen, Colorado, and co-founder of Studio for Arts and Works (SAW), Carbondale, Colorado. He serves on the board of Haystack Mountain School of Crafts. His work was recently acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, and the Huntington Museum of Art, WV, where he was honored with the Walter Gropius Master Award. Website: art-stream.com
Visiting Artist: Yuri Kobayashi
Lecture: Tuesday, January 31st at 5:00pm in the Bowe Street Bldg., 609 Bowe Street, rm 535
Born and raised in Japan, Yuri Kobayashi received her BA degree in architecture design at the Musashino Art University in Tokyo. After training in traditional Japanese woodworking, she moved to the U.S. to pursue an MFA degree in woodworking and furniture design at San Diego State University. Currently she divides her time between teaching in Furniture Design Department at RISD and producing her own work. She exhibits her work nationally and has been awarded several grants, including Windgate Artist-in Residency Program at SUNY Purchase College in 2010 and University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011. Being influenced by her origin, her work is a reflection of her identity, experience and empathy. Utilizing predominantly wood, she employs repetitive manners to create concept-based objects with an emphasis on the sculptural form. Website: yurikobayashi.com
Visiting Artist: Anne Wilson
Lecture: Thursday, November 10th at 11:00am in the VCU Student Commons Theater, 907 Floyd Ave.
Anne Wilson is a Chicago-based visual artist who creates sculpture, drawings, performances and video animations that explore themes of time, loss, private and social rituals. Her artwork embraces conceptual strategies and handwork using everyday materials -- table linen, bed sheets, human hair, lace, thread, glass, and wire.
Wilson's work has been shown at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, Japan, the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, and the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Her 2011 solo exhibitions include "Rewinds" at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago and "Local Industry" at the Knoxville Museum of Art. Website: annewilsonartist.com
Visiting Artist: Del Harrow
Lecture: Tuesday, October 18th at 2:30pm in the Bowe Street Bldg., 609 Bowe Street, rm 535
Del Harrow is a sculptor and educator based in Fort Collins, CO. He is an Assistant Professor of Art at Colorado State University and taught previously at Penn State University and Kansas City Art Institute. He has lectured widely: at The University of Colorado, Alfred University, and the Harvard University Graduate School for Design, among others. His work has been shown recently at the NCECA conference, The Dolphin Gallery in Kansas City, MO, and the Denver Art Museum. Website: delharrow.net
Visiting Artist: Kim Cridler
Lecture: Thursday, October 6th at 12:30pm in the Bowe Street Bldg., 609 Bowe Street, rm 535
Trained as a metalsmith, Kim creates works that utilize the history, making, and meaning of craft and domestic ornamentation. She currently teaches as Assistant Professor in the Department of Art at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. An undergraduate at the University of Michigan, Kim earned an MFA in Metals from the State University of New York at New Paltz, and studied at Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting. Kim has taught in art programs across the country including University of Michigan, San Diego State University, Arizona State University, and the Penland School of Crafts.
Awards include Visual Arts Fellowships from the Wisconsin Arts Board and the Arizona Commission on the Arts. Her work is featured in public collections including the Arizona State University Art Museum, the Arkansas Art Center Decorative Museum of Art, the California State University Long Beach Art Museum, the Chazen Art Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, the Scottsdale Contemporary Museum of Art, and the Samuel Dorsky Museum at SUNY New Paltz. Website: kimcridler.com
Visiting Artist: Olivia Valentine
Lecture: Monday, September 26th at 12pm in the Fine Arts Bldg., 1000 W. Broad Street, rm 238
Olivia Valentine received her BFA in 2002 from Rhode Island School of Design, Photography Department, Providence, RI and an MFA in 2010 from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. Valentine has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2011 her work was in Love Lace, International Lace Award Exhibition, Powerhouse Museum, Sydney, Australia., Kite!, The Barn Gallery, Lenox, MA, Peregrine Papers, MDW Fair, Chicago, IL., and Local Industry, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN. Website: oliviavalentine.net
Visiting Artist: Matthias Pliessnig
Lecture: Tuesday, September 20th at 12pm in the Fine Arts Bldg., 1000 W. Broad Street, rm 238
Matthias Pliessnig is a furniture designer based in Philadelphia, whose work uses steam bended wood. His style is "kinetically contemporary" and he uses "computer-aided curves with laborious craftsmanship" to handcraft chairs and benches. Pliessnig is a graduate of Rhode Island School of Design and the University of Wisconsin (Madison). His first solo exhibition was hosted by Philadelphia's Wexler Gallery in 2008. Plessing's 2003 Shell is made of woods laminated mahogany wood strips around a concrete form. His work Bends is a bowed bench made from a grid of wood that "gives way to support the sitter". In 2010, he was named a Fellow by United States Artists. Website: matthias-studio.com