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Tuesday, October 1, 2019
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Otherness²: Hiding in Plain Sight by Lee Ann Harrison-Houser, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Otherness²:
Hiding in Plain Sight explores the outsider’s perspectives and the impact of
“Othering.” During the creative process, Harrison-Houser pursues authenticity
and begins to reveal untold stories in her work. However, she instinctively
hides within the mark-making with her use of symbolism, sgraffito, and
abstraction. Layer after layer of gesso and paint erase her disclosures.
Subsequently, the art installation shares these stories only in a type of
Hide-and-Seek game for the viewer. For deeper connections, the viewer
physically moves to a separate space to match the conceptual titles back to the
abstract squares. Through this physical movement and mindfulness, the
storyteller role shifts away from the artist and moves to the viewer to create
awareness, conversation, and the momentum for change.
September
10- October 12, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersections w/Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday - 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday - 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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Wednesday, October 2, 2019
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Otherness²: Hiding in Plain Sight by Lee Ann Harrison-Houser, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Otherness²:
Hiding in Plain Sight explores the outsider’s perspectives and the impact of
“Othering.” During the creative process, Harrison-Houser pursues authenticity
and begins to reveal untold stories in her work. However, she instinctively
hides within the mark-making with her use of symbolism, sgraffito, and
abstraction. Layer after layer of gesso and paint erase her disclosures.
Subsequently, the art installation shares these stories only in a type of
Hide-and-Seek game for the viewer. For deeper connections, the viewer
physically moves to a separate space to match the conceptual titles back to the
abstract squares. Through this physical movement and mindfulness, the
storyteller role shifts away from the artist and moves to the viewer to create
awareness, conversation, and the momentum for change.
September
10- October 12, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersection with Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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Religion, Spirituality, and LGBTQ Life, Olin Theater
(multiple cals)
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Description: |
As part of Wofford's OUTober celebration, Rev.
Christy Snow will talk about creating a world that honors all beings and leaves no
one out. She shares her personal journey growing up in rural North Carolina
in a Southern Baptist family where being gay was taught to be an abomination
and the effect that this had on her. You will hear about how her life and
spiritual views evolved to make room for a bigger idea of God that was all
encompassing enough to include all people and how scriptures from many
different faith traditions support this expanded idea.
Sponsors: Cultural Affairs, Dean of Diversity and Inclusion, Office of
Diversity and Inclusion, Presidential Committee of Diversity and Inclusion,
Department of Philosophy, Richardson Family Art Museum, the Chaplain’s Office,
and LGBTerriers.
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Location: |
Olin Theater |
Contact: |
Nancy Williams
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Thursday, October 3, 2019
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Otherness²: Hiding in Plain Sight by Lee Ann Harrison-Houser, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Otherness²:
Hiding in Plain Sight explores the outsider’s perspectives and the impact of
“Othering.” During the creative process, Harrison-Houser pursues authenticity
and begins to reveal untold stories in her work. However, she instinctively
hides within the mark-making with her use of symbolism, sgraffito, and
abstraction. Layer after layer of gesso and paint erase her disclosures.
Subsequently, the art installation shares these stories only in a type of
Hide-and-Seek game for the viewer. For deeper connections, the viewer
physically moves to a separate space to match the conceptual titles back to the
abstract squares. Through this physical movement and mindfulness, the
storyteller role shifts away from the artist and moves to the viewer to create
awareness, conversation, and the momentum for change.
September
10- October 12, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 9:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Art as Transformation: Chapman Lecture by LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre (RSRCA)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
This fall, Wofford welcomes visual artist LaToya Ruby Frazier to campus to deliver a Chapman Lecture in the Humanities. Frazier uses photography, video, and performance art to build visual archives that address industrialism, rustbelt revitalization, environmental justice, healthcare and gender inequality, racism, and family and communal history.
In her talk, entitled "Art as Transformation: Using Photography for Social Change," Frazier will discuss how she has used photography to fight injustice. Drawing from her book The Notion of Family as well as from works of art by Frederick Douglass, August Sander, Julia Margaret Cameron, and Langston Hughes, she relates her conscious approach to photography, opens up more authentic ways to talk about family, inheritance, and place, and celebrates the inspirational, transformative power of images.
A TED Fellow and one of Ebony's 100 Most Powerful Women of All Time, Frazier has received the MacArthur Genius Fellowship and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her work has been widely exhibited across the US and internationally, and her 2015 book The Notion of Family received the International Center for Photography Infinity Award.
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Location: |
Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre (RSRCA) |
Contact: |
Miriam Thomas
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Friday, October 4, 2019
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(All Day)
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12:10 PM - 1:00 PM
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Otherness²: Hiding in Plain Sight by Lee Ann Harrison-Houser, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Otherness²:
Hiding in Plain Sight explores the outsider’s perspectives and the impact of
“Othering.” During the creative process, Harrison-Houser pursues authenticity
and begins to reveal untold stories in her work. However, she instinctively
hides within the mark-making with her use of symbolism, sgraffito, and
abstraction. Layer after layer of gesso and paint erase her disclosures.
Subsequently, the art installation shares these stories only in a type of
Hide-and-Seek game for the viewer. For deeper connections, the viewer
physically moves to a separate space to match the conceptual titles back to the
abstract squares. Through this physical movement and mindfulness, the
storyteller role shifts away from the artist and moves to the viewer to create
awareness, conversation, and the momentum for change.
September
10- October 12, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Intersection of Art and Literature in the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Southern
Gothic: Intersections of Art and Literature in the Johnson Collection
From Edgar
Allen Poe’s haunting tale of The Gold Bug (1843) to Flannery
O'Connor’s biting short story “Good Country People” (1955), the Southern
Gothic literary tradition has exhumed the American South’s aberrations,
contradictions, and unique sense of dark humor. Drawing exclusively
from the Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic examines how
nineteenth-and twentieth-century artists borrowed from their literary
peers, using a potent visual language to address the tensions between the
South’s idyllic visions and its historical realities.This exhibition is
guest curated by Elizabeth Driscoll Smith, a Ph.D. candidate from the
University California, Santa Barbara, and the Johnson Collection’s 2019
graduate fellow.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday - 1 - 5 p.m. Thursdays - 1 - 9 p.m. Exhibit closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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Saturday, October 5, 2019
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(All Day)
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Otherness²: Hiding in Plain Sight by Lee Ann Harrison-Houser, Richardson Family Art Gallery
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
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Description: |
Otherness²:
Hiding in Plain Sight explores the outsider’s perspectives and the impact of
“Othering.” During the creative process, Harrison-Houser pursues authenticity
and begins to reveal untold stories in her work. However, she instinctively
hides within the mark-making with her use of symbolism, sgraffito, and
abstraction. Layer after layer of gesso and paint erase her disclosures.
Subsequently, the art installation shares these stories only in a type of
Hide-and-Seek game for the viewer. For deeper connections, the viewer
physically moves to a separate space to match the conceptual titles back to the
abstract squares. Through this physical movement and mindfulness, the
storyteller role shifts away from the artist and moves to the viewer to create
awareness, conversation, and the momentum for change.
September
10- October 12, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Gallery
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday,
Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Gallery |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Props: Personal Identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts, Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
Props:
Personal identities in the Portrait Photography of Richard Samuel Roberts
The
term “props” brings to mind the objects used in the theater that help establish
the meaning of a scene. In this theater context, the word is shortened from
“properties,” things collectively owned by a theater group. But could the term
also reflect the notion that props show “properties” of a character, offering
layers of information and meaning to a viewer.? “Props” is also a slang term,
meaning “proper respect.” In this show, we analyze the props in photographic
portraits taken by RSR between 1920-1936 to see the way that the “props”—most
often objects chosen by the sitters themselves—tell us something about the
self-identity of the sitters. The objects chosen often underscore the proper
respect due the sitters based on their attainments, but also can give
insights—in an otherwise very formulaic genre—into the inner desires and
predilections of the sitters. Props thus can help us see beyond the surface,
or, perhaps conversely, can reify socially-agreed upon tropes.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (lower level)
Exhibit Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday: 1 – 5 p.m.
Thursday: 1 – 9 p.m.
Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (lower level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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Art Exhibit: Southern Gothic: Literary Intersection of Art from the Johnson Collection, Richardson Family Art Museum (upper level)
(Arts and Cultural (On Campus))
|
Description: |
From the haunting novels of William
Faulkner to the gritty short stories of Flannery O'Connor, the Southern Gothic
literary tradition has exhumed and examined the American South’s unique
mystery, contradictions, and dark humor. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth
century, American writers, epitomized by Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel
Hawthorne, sought to reinterpret the Gothic imagination of their European
counterparts, dramatizing the cultures and characters of a region in the midst
of civil war and its tumultuous aftermath. Decades later, a new generation of
authors—including Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers, and Toni Morrison—wove
Gothic elements into their own narratives, exploring the complexities of a changing
social terrain and the ancient spirits that linger in its corners.
With works drawn exclusively from the
Johnson Collection, Southern Gothic illuminates how nineteenth- and
twentieth-century artists employed a potent visual language to transcribe the
tensions between the South’s idyllic aura and its historical realities. Often
described as a mood or sensibility rather than a strict set of thematic or
technical conventions, features of the Southern Gothic can include horror,
romance, and the supernatural. While academic painters such as Charles Fraser
and Thomas Noble conveyed the genre’s gloomy tonalities in their canvases,
Aaron Douglas and Harry Hoffman grappled with the injustices of a modern world.
Other artists, including Alexander Brook and Eugene Thomason, investigated
prevailing stereotypes of rural Southerners—a trope often accentuated in
Southern Gothic literature. Collectively, these images demonstrate that
definitions of the Gothic are neither monolithic nor momentary, inviting us,
instead to contemplate how the Southern Gothic legacy continues to inform our
understanding of the American South.
September 3 –
December 14, 2019
Richardson
Family Art Museum (upper level) Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday: 1 - 5 p.m. Thursday: 1 - 9 p.m. Closed on Sunday and Monday
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Location: |
Richardson Family Art Museum (Upper Level) |
Contact: |
Youmi Efurd
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