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Join the Department of Art, Art History, and Design in celebrating the BFA Studio Art Solo Exhibitions in the Kresge Art Center Galleries. These exhibitions rotate on a weekly basis and feature the work of students in their last semester of study.
Join the Department of Art, Art History, and Design in celebrating the BFA Studio Art Solo Exhibitions in the Kresge Art Center Galleries. These exhibitions rotate on a weekly basis and feature the work of students in their last semester of study.
ELC Extended Orientation Workshop: Getting Fall-ish with MSU Sports
Learn about MSU’s Ice Hockey Team and get a tour of Munn Arena. We’ll tour the locker rooms, learn about what a Zamboni is, and even get to watch a bit of the MSU team practice on the ice! *Limited to the first 10 students who sign up.
Email kroesche@msu.edu to reserve a spot.
ELC IEP students are required to attend one workshop per month. You will swipe in and out of the workshop session with your MSU ID card. The attendance record will be given to your teachers.
ELC Extended Orientation Workshop: Surviving Michigan Winters
You can freeze your ears off. Or you can come to this workshop.
ELC IEP students are required to attend one workshop per month. You will swipe in and out of the workshop session with your MSU ID card. The attendance record will be given to your teachers.
New York based Joanne Greenbaum’s paintings are energetic profusions of overlapping techniques and colors, featuring clusters of architectural forms, irregular shapes, and doodle-like lines. Her work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Hammer Museum, UCLA, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis, and many others.
What: We’ll spend the day at Henry Ford Museum, a museum dedicated to American inventions and technology, such as cars, trains, and planes, where you can experience the sights, sounds, and sensations of America’s past. You will also be able to see one film at the museum’s Giant Screen Theater in 4k digital quality. Things you should consider seeing in the museum are the Rosa Parks bus, U.S. President limousines, and the Abraham Lincoln rocking chair. For more information, check out www.thehenryford.org
Cost: $45. Price includes transportation and entrance to the museum and film. Bring money for lunch and souvenirs.
*Please sign up and pay (credit card or cash) at the English Language Center
Office in Wells Hall B-230.
Deadline: Thursday 2/8/18 at 5:00 p.m.
NO REFUNDS!
When: Saturday, February 17, 2018, 8:15 am-6:00 pm
Where: Great Lakes Crossing Outlet Mall (185 outlet stores) in Auburn Hills, Michigan. We will take a bus to the outlet mall and spend the day shopping. There are many restaurants and food shops in the mall for lunch . Meet at the west Wells Hall B entrance at the bottom of the stairway that leads to the ELC at 8:15 am. Do NOT be late!!
Cost: $20* for round-trip transportation to the shopping mall. Bring money for lunch and shopping. Learn more about Great Lakes Crossing Outlet Mall: http://www.greatlakescrossingoutlets.com/
*Please sign up and pay (credit card or cash) at the English Language Center
Office in Wells Hall B-230.
Deadline: Thursday 2/15/18 at 5:00 p.m.
NO REFUNDS!
2018 Department of Art, Art History, and Design Faculty Triennial Exhibition
Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum
March 17-May 13, 2018
Exhibition Reception April 8, 6-8PM
The 2018 Department of Art, Art History, and Design Faculty Triennial Exhibition showcases the recent work of twenty studio art & design faculty members. Recognized nationally and internationally, Michigan State University studio art & design faculty member’s creative research is regularly exhibited in venues all over the world. Collectively they have received recognition and support from Fulbright, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Pollack-Krasner Foundation. Representing a broad-range of media and contemporary art and design approaches, the exhibition highlights the faculty’s dedication to actively pursuing creative research.
The 2018 MSU Department of Art, Art History, and Design Faculty Triennial exhibition is organized by the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum at MSU and guest curated by Christopher Atkins, Curator of Exhibitions & Public Programs at the Minnesota Museum of American Art. Support for this exhibition is provided by the John and Susan Berding Family Endowment.
Self – Clarissa R Gerber
Show Dates: May 25- July 21, 2018
Reception: Saturday, July 21
Artist Statement
Whether understood as complex physiological organisms or as souls swaddled in flesh, humans embody mystery and potentiality. My interest goes beyond the unseen and incorporeal elements to embrace the physicality of people as well as their collective psychology. I find subtle moments revealing—the tension in an arm, the curve of a shoulder, the intense look in an eye, and the connections people make when they look at each other.
My work rides the edge between different modes of painting with color acting as a central component. I am drawn to that space where representation meets abstraction and where volume and flatness intersect. Overlapping marks create layers of paint that both reveal and conceal, similar to our physical surroundings’ ability to both reflect and influence our identity. My current series acts as both a study of persona and as conduit to express emotion for myself, for the model, and for the viewer. Through the use of color and the expressive language of paint, my work connects the personal to that which links us as human beings.
Biography
Clarissa R Gerber received her Master of Fine Arts degree in Painting from Michigan State University in 2011. Gerber is a figurative painter who uses color and the expressive language of paint to present the human form, both physically and psychologically. Her work has been exhibited numerous times in national juried exhibitions, including the Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition in Brooklyn, New York; Gallery 263 in Cambridge, Massachusetts; Union Street Gallery in Chicago Heights, Illinois; and First Street Gallery in New York City. In 2015, Gerber had a solo exhibition entitled Sensation in the Sheetz and McLanahan Galleries on the campus of Penn State Altoona. She is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Ohio. Additional information and images of Gerber’s work are available at ClarissaRGerber.com.
SOMETIMES BLUEBIRD
June 2 – July 15, 2018
Reception Friday, June 1, 2018 6–8pm
Sometimes Bluebird featuring the work of Marcos Valella, Britta Urness, and Jacquelynn Sullivan. This special exhibition is organized by Britta Urness. Sometimes Bluebird brings the work of three artists together to discover new layers of abstraction, the relationship between humans and experience, and what can materialize as an object – as an artwork – or appear as an activity. All three artists lean on differing subject matter (permanence, action, memory, communication, the self) and the resulting installations can be read as both ephemeral or long-lasting.