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2008 CALENDAR   

 

The Future of the Image
a lecture by WJT Mitchell, Professor of English and Art History at the University of Chicago
Thursday, November 13, 2008
University Gallery  from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm

Departing from Jacques Ranciere's recent book by this title, the lecture examines not only some possible and probable futures for image technologies, but also the way futures as such are constituted by image-making.     MORE…

 

Bethan Huws Opening Reception
Wednesday, February 6 2008
University Gallery  from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

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In Conversation
Bethan Huws and exhibition curator Gregory Salzman
Wednesday, February 6 2008
University Gallery  from 5:00 pm to 6:00 pm

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In Conversation
A discussion on the work of Bethan Huws
Wednesday, February 27 2008
University Gallery  from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm

A discussion on the work of Bethan Huws and how it relates to trends in contemporary thought.     MORE…

 

Poetry Reading
Thursday, February 28 2008
University Gallery  from 8:00 pm to 9:30 pm

Anne Halley Poetry Prize Reading: Ralph Black     MORE…

 

SYMPOSIUM:
Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities
Friday, April 25 2008
Student Union Ballroom  from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm

This day-long symposium will bring together architects, artists, curators, scholars and landscape artists to examine the complexities and challenges of producing work in and about the public domain.     MORE…

 

JURIED EXHIBITION:
Art in the Public Sphere: Singular Works, Plural Possibilities
Friday, April 25 - Saturday, May 24 2008
University Gallery  

A juried exhibition of proposed public art projects intended for self-appointed places explores contemporary trends and applies new ideas to the field of public art.     MORE…

 

Of People and Places
Wednesday, September 24 - Sunday, December 14, 2008
University Gallery  

This exhibition combines work by young, emerging artists with work by those who are more internationally renowned.     MORE…

 

Opening Reception:
Of People and Places
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
University Gallery  from 5:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Opening reception for the exhibition: "Of People and Places"     MORE…

 

SALON 08/09
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SALON O8/09 offers patrons, artists, and gallery-goers an opportunity to engage in such dialogues at our three venues on a rotating basis.     MORE…

 

Single Project Event Grant Deadline
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
  

Umass Art Council - 10 Curry Hicks - 545-0202 - 12 PM Deadline.     MORE…

 

Panel Discussion
Photographers Yto Barrada, Cuny Janssen, and John Riddy, discuss their work in the context of the exhibition "Of People and Places"; moderated by guest curator Gregory Salzman
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
  from 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm

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APEarts
Artists Ali Osborn, Raphael Griswold, and Edward O'Connor in conversation with Gloria Russell
Sunday, November 16, 2008
  

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Karen Dolmanisth: Life Lines of Connection and Continuity
Saturday, October 4 - Tuesday, October 14, 2008
Isle of View & FAC outdoor north atrium, on-site of the sculpture project  

Karen Dolmanisth's time-based installation is well suited to its location on the Umass campus pond's "Isle of View". Her accumulative and performance-based modes of thinking create a ritual in progress, as the artist continues to add to the installation over the course of one week this fall. Art-making itself becomes the ritual with its final shape exemplifying an incremental, open-ended exploration of natural material-intensive art forms.     MORE…

 

Artist Talk with Joel Sternfeld
Thursday, October 30, 2008
University Gallery  7:30 pm

Joel Sternfeld's impressive new large-scale photographs, "Oxbow Archive", document weather and atmospheric effects in a meadow in Northampton at the Oxbow of the Connecticut River, over the course of a cycle of seasons.     MORE…

 

In Conversation
As part of our ongoing faculty interdisciplinary series UMass faculty discuss the exhibition from their points of view addressing issues of history, literature, displacement, environment, and people in relationship to nature, place and landscape.
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
University Gallery  5:00 pm

In Conversation: Professors Tanya Fernando, UMass Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures; Susan Jahoda, UMass Dept. of Art and Art History; and Richard Wilkie, UMass Dept. of Geosciences; will meet to discuss the works in the exhibition "Of People and Places".     MORE…

 

Poetry Reading
Pulitzer Prize Winner Franz Wright reads in the Gallery
Thursday, December 11, 2008
University Gallery  8:00 pm

In conjunction with the Visiting Writers Series the University Gallery presents Franz Wright.     MORE…

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