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Shiyuan Xu. Envisioning Invisibility
Shiyuan Xu is the 2017-18 Ceramics Artist in Residence. Shiyuan Xu’s work highlights the beauty and fragility, rhythm and harmony of natural life forms at the microscopic level. She reinterprets scientific phenomena into art forms. Working primarily with porcelain paper clay, Xu hand builds organic skeleton-like structures with slabs within an intimate scale. Her glazes drip to become a part of the whole structure with added layers giving the work a skin-like surface. Xu tries to reveal the neglected world…
Jan Gaumnitz. Altogether 2018
This multimedia exhibition explores nature and our relationship with it. Using photography, sculpture, painting, and printmaking Jan Gaumnitz will fill the gallery with vibrant colors and surfaces that are varied and uniquely hers. As a child, Jan lived on a farm near a lake in Minnesota. The close association with nature had an enduring influence on her life and art. Gaumnitz prefers to be outside “seeing, experiencing, remembering, collecting, and photographing,” than creating a work of art inside her studio. …
My Mother Was the First REAL Thug That I Knew. Works by Sandra Keat German & Vanessa German
Vanessa German (1976 – ) Vanessa German is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is the founder of Love Front Porch and the ARThouse, a community arts initiative for the children of her historic Homewood neighborhood. Her work is in private and public collections including Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, The Progressive Art Collection, Snite Museum of Art, among many others. Her work has been featured on CBS Sunday Morning, NPR’s All Things Considered and in The…
FINAL FRIDAY New Exhibits Opening Reception
Join us to open three new exhibitions: Shiyuan Xu, Jan Gaumnitz, Vanessa German and Sandra Keat German
Monday Night Mixers: Lanterns and Libations with Alicia Kelly
Want to create a piece of work that will light up the room? Using templates and paper cutting techniques, students will create an exquisitely handcrafted paper lantern, complete with light! SU-AAMM12: 7/9, M, 5:30PM-7:30PM, 1 wk, $60 ($54) Enroll as a couple (or bring a friend!). Open to all skill levels. Drinks and supplies provided. Must be 21 or older. Price is cost per couple.
INSIGHT Art Talk: Shiyuan Xu
2017/18 Ceramics Artist in Residence Shiyuan Xu is originally from Hangzhou, P.R. China and has an MFA in ceramics from Arizona State University. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Shiyuan is a 2017 Ceramics Monthly Emerging Artist and has been awarded multiple prestigious artist residencies.
Summer Youth Theatre presents The Trials of Robin Hood
July 19th | 7 PM July 20th| 7 PM July 21st| 2PM & 7 PM $10/$7.50 Written by Will Averill. Upon his return from the Crusades, King Richard is forced to try and figure out what happened in his kingdom during his absence. Told from the perspectives of Robin himself, Maid Marian, and Prince John, this hilarious tale combines three different stories into one--and, with three different endings, it is up to the audience to decide which one is true.
Summer Youth Theatre presents Pippin
July 26th | 7 PM July 27th| 7 PM July 28th| 2PM & 7 PM July 29th | 3PM $10/$7.50 Music & Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz, Book by Roger O. Hirson. Heir to the Frankish throne, young prince Pippin is in search of the secret to true happiness and fulfillment. In the end, though, Pippin finds that happiness lies not in extraordinary endeavors, but rather in the unextraordinary moments that happen every day.
Erin Johnson. It Was a Warm Day and Everybody Was in Bad, Bad Shape
July 27 – August 25, 2018 In The Way Things Can Happen, extras from The Day After, a 1983 made-for-TV movie depicting a nuclear attack on the United States, recollect their original scenes, now 34 years later. Having been filmed in the midst of the Cold War on location in Lawrence, Kansas and with a cast of five thousand locals, The Day After blurred the distinction between extras’ everyday existence and the movie and in doing so achieved the urgency…