Visiting Artists
Visiting Artist Lecture: Garth Johnson
October 28th @ 7:00pm in the Bowe Street Bldg, Room 535
The Extreme Craft Roadshow is a slide presentation covering many of the “Greatest Hits” of www.extremecraft.com. The artists and projects presented in the lecture are by turns hilarious, inspirational, deranged, sexual and downright disturbing. The Extreme Craft Roadshow presents the audience with a portrait of the blurred line between art and craft at present--fine artists using craft materials to get their point across, craft artists making work so audacious that it can only be considered fine art as well as people using traditional materials to express radical ideas.
Garth Johnson is a studio artist, writer and educator who lives in Eureka, California. His website, Extreme Craft is a compendium of craft masquerading as art, art masquerading as craft and craft extending its middle finger.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Mark Shapiro
October 14th @ 2:30pm in the Bowe Street Bldg, Room 535
Mark Shapiro has been making pots in his western Massachusetts studio for over 20 years. He is frequent workshop leader, lecturer, panelist, and writer. His interviews of Karen Karnes and Michael Simon are in the Archives of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution and he is currently working on a monograph to accompany a traveling retrospective of Karnes's work. He recently curated “Containing History” at the Albany (NY) Institute of History and Art, a show of contemporary potters influenced by historical ceramics. He is a contributing advisor to Studio Potter and is on the advisory board of Ceramics Monthly. His own work was featured in the 4th World Biennale in Icheon, Korea, and is in many public collections including the Mint Museum, the Smithsonian, the Newark Museum, the International Museum of Ceramic Art at Alfred, and the Racine Art Museum.
Mark will speak about how his interest in researching and documenting the lives and work of early American and contemporary potters has informed his own studio practice.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Kate Kretz
October 8th @ 10:00am in the Fine Arts Building, Room 238
Kate Kretz’s work has appeared in over 30 International and 65 domestic newspapers including The Herald Tribune, The NY TImes, The Los Angeles Times, The Boston Globe, & has been featured in ArtPapers, Surface Design, Vanity Fair Italy, ELLE Japon, and FiberArts magazines. Her controversial painting “Blessed Art Thou” received news coverage on NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN & Fox networks, and hundreds of news sources around the world.
Exhibitions include the Museum of Arts & Design, Van Gijn Museum, Museo Medici, Exit Art, The Frost Museum, Wignall Museum, Huntsville Museum, Georgia Museum of Art, Penn State University, Morris Museum, Georgia State University, Telfair Museum, Agnes Scott College, Georgia State University, Catholic University, The Fort Lauderdale Museum, and The Fiber Arts Foundation.
Her lecture will focus on her work, which moves through drawing, painting, sculpture, and fiber-based media.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Elizabeth Turrell
September 26 @ 12:00pm in the Bowe Street Bldg, Room 535
Elizabeth Turrell is Senior Research Fellow in Enamel, University of the West of England, Bristol. She heads the Enamel Research Centre and the large-scale enamel facility and is director of the International Contemporary Vitreous Enamel Archive.
Elizabeth exhibits and lectures nationally and internationally; has taught workshop in the UK, USA, Sweden, Holland and India; she is a director of Studio Fusion Gallery in London, which is the only gallery in the UK specialising in enamel. She has curated several exhibitions including The Enamel Experience: International Badge Exhibition that is currently touring galleries in the USA.
Elizabeth Turrell’s talk will include images of her work and the work of the Enamel Research Centre at UWE.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Lydia Matthews
September 24 @ 6:00pm in the Fine Arts Building, Room 238
Lydia Matthews is an educator, writer, curator, and cultural activist who focuses on contemporary art, design and craft practices in relation to critical contexts, local cultures and transnational systems. Before becoming Dean of Academic Programs at Parsons The New School for Design, she taught contemporary art and cultural theory at California College of the Arts in San Francisco, where she co-founded CCA's MA program in Visual Criticism and directed their MFA in Fine Arts. She has published and organized diverse curatorial projects internationally, including within the volatile post-Soviet city of Tbilisi, Georgia. Her lecture at VCU will reflect on ways to research, make and act critically in a world full of wicked problems.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Biba Schutz
September 15 @ 3:30pm in the Fine Arts Building, Room 238
New York artist Biba Schutz has a BA in design from American University in Washington, DC, as well as education in printmaking from Pratt Graphics Center in NY, and fiber from Instituto de Allende, in Mexico. Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, St. Louis, and Boston. Schutz has been featured in numerous publications. Her work can be viewed at www.bibaschutz.com.
Visiting Artist Lecture: Rebecca Murtaugh
September 4 @ 10:00am in the Bowe Street Building, Room 535
Rebecca Murtaugh currently lives in Brooklyn and Central New York. She received her Master of Fine Arts from Virginia Commonwealth University and Bachelor of Science from the Pennsylvania State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally in solo and group exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Washington D.C., Baltimore, Richmond, and San Francisco. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Artworld Digest, and Shamenet Magazine. She is an Assistant Professor of Art at Hamilton College in Clinton, New York where she teaches Sculpture, Ceramics, and Critical Theory. Her work can be viewed at www.rebeccamurtaugh.com.