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February
IONA ROZEAL BROWN LECTURE
Center for the Arts, Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, February 9, 6:30 p.m.
In connection with an exhibition of her prints and paintings on view in the Asian Arts and Culture Center, Brown will discuss her exploration of the theme of Afro-asiatic allegory in which she utilizes the processes of self-sampling and remixing found in the music industry to produce dramatic images that address issues of race, gender and class. Brown is a highly trained artist who is also a DJ in the commercial music industry. She links the two worlds of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints and hip hop. Her more recent work concentrates on the pressures that young Black women face today and represents a highly developed and complex narrative. She also looks to African folk stories for motivation.
Admission is free.
ON LOCATION: WORKS BY STEVEN RIDDLE, MARIE DANIELSSON-YUNG AND YIYUN CHU
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Center for the Arts Holtzman MFA Gallery
Friday, February 10 – Saturday, March 10
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 9, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Where we come from and where we reside are two of the most significant pieces of information about a person. The three artists in this exhibition have experienced the sense of adventure and displacement inherent in moving to a new city. Each finds that the spaces they occupy influence their thinking and behavior and, most especially, their creative pursuits. The paintings, collages, digital and three-dimensional art in this exhibition are a testament to the variety of ways Riddle, Danielsson-Yung, and Chu make sense of their surroundings, using art as another language to find their way in a new and unfamiliar place.
Admission is free.
JIM PAULSEN ALUMNI SCULPTURE EXHIBITION
Center for the Arts, Center for the Arts Gallery
Friday, February 17– Saturday, March 31
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 16, 7:30 – 9 pm;
Closed for Spring Break: Monday, March 19 - Saturday, March 24
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Professor Jim Paulsen has been mentoring students in the sculpture program at Towson University for 43 years. He retires as of August 2012. Many of his former students have gone on to substantive careers in the arts, both as teachers and exhibiting artists. A number now direct sculpture programs at other universities. This exhibition both honors Professor Paulsen and demonstrates the breadth and depth of the sculpture program at Towson University.
Admission is free.
March
LUBA LUKOVA LECTURE
Center for the Arts Harold J. Kaplan Concert Hall
Thursday, March 29, 6:30 p.m.
An internationally recognized New York based artist, Lukova is regarded as one of the most distinctive image-makers working today. Social consciousness has long been part of her vocabulary, and her artwork uses metaphors, the juxtaposition of symbols, and bold, deceptively simple graphics to comment on many of today’s social and political issues. Lukova has had solo exhibitions around the world. Her many awards include the Grand Prix Savignac at the International Poster Salon, Paris; the ICOGRADA Excellence Award and the Gold Medal at the International Poster Biennial, Mexico City. She has received commissions from The New York Times, Adobe Systems, Time, Sony Music, Canon, Harvard University, the Cultural Ministry of France, and the War Resisters League. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Library of Congress, Washington, DC; and the Bibliotheque Nationale de France.
Admission is free.
LIZ DONADIO: KEEP STILL
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Center for the Arts, Holtzman MFA Gallery
Friday, March 30 – Saturday, May 5
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 29, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
For Donadio, who is a photographer and video artist, photography documents her perception of a moment. She believes that video can be a mirror, a reflection of self. In this body of work, Donadio uses the two mediums as tools to investigate inner and outer dream worlds, psyches and psychologies. Objects and places become metaphors with symbolism found in silence and stillness.
Admission is free.
VINCE VALERIO: PASTICHE
Master of Fine Arts Exhibition
Center for the Arts, Holtzman MFA Gallery
Friday, March 30 - Saturday, May 5
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 29, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Valerio is interested in and inspired by various social phenomena in American culture, such as the loss of innocence, collective joy and celebratory acts. He creates experiences and encourages interaction through interactive objects and installations and/or collaborative performances. His current work concentrates on wearable works of art that act as props and characters for performance, video and photography projects. This cross-disciplined work is a pastiche of the fashion industry and other aspects of popular culture.
Admission is free.
April
NANCY G. HELLER LECTURE: AMALIE ROTHSCHILD: QUIET FEMINIST
Center for the Arts, Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, April 19, 6:30 p.m.
Nancy G. Heller will discuss how artist Amalie Rothschild managed to fulfill her numerous, seemingly contradictory roles—as a full-time wife and mother in mid-20th-century Baltimore, a pioneering art therapist, a passionate activist on behalf of artists' rights, an important patron of the arts, and a prolific, fearlessly experimental artist in her own right who produced work in many different media, techniques and styles, over six and a half decades. Dr. Heller is Professor of Modern and Contemporary Art History at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia. Her most recent books include the 4th revised-and-expanded edition of Women Artists: An Illustrated History (Abbeville Press) and Why a Painting is Like a Pizza: A Guide to Understanding and Enjoying Modern Art (Princeton University Press). Dr. Heller has received awards from the Smithsonian Institution and the Richard C. Von Hess Foundation.
Admission is free.
AMALIE ROTHSCHILD: A RETROSPECTIVE VIEW
Center for the Arts, Center for the Arts Gallery
Thursday, April 19 – Saturday, June 16
Opening Reception and Book Signing: Thursday, April 19, 8 – 9:30 pm.
Gallery Hours: Tuesday thru Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
This exhibition honors the life and work of an important artist, Amalie Rothschild (1916-2001). Rothschild produced over 1,500 works—270 of which are in private collections and museums—including the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Phillips Collection, the Baltimore Museum of Art and the Walters Art Museum. In 1957, she won the purchase prize at the Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennale. In December 2000, the University of Maryland presented her with a Maryland Lifetime Achievement Award, her second. The exhibition is in conjunction with the publication of the book, Life and Work of Amalie Rothschild, with essays by Amalie R. Rothschild, Angelo Pontecorboli, Nancy G. Heller, J. Susan Isaacs, and Percy North.
Admission is free.
ANTHONY MANGIERI LECTURE: VIRGIN SACRIFICE IN GREEK ART: WOMEN IN THE TROJAN WAR
Center for the Arts, Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, April 26, 6:30 p.m.
Although the Greeks never practiced human sacrifice, the subject of virgin sacrifice resonates powerfully in ancient art and myth. Iphigeneia and Polyxena are the only sacrificial virgins represented in Greek art, and their murders frame the Trojan War. This presentation explores the myths of the sacrificial virgins in Greek art and myth and their place in the Trojan War, with particular attention to their relation to Helen of Troy. Dr. Anthony Mangieri is an Assistant Professor of Art History at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.
Admission is free.
May
42nd ANNUAL SPRING POTTERY SALE
Center for the Arts Ceramics Suite Room 3010
Friday, May 4 and Saturday, May 5, 9 a.m. – 6 p.m.
An annual event, the ceramic students and faculty present functional and fine art ceramic works for sale. A vast selection of handcrafted items includes stoneware and earthenware, as well as fanciful objects are available.
Admission is free.
CONCERT: MUSIC FROM THE RANDOLPH S. ROTHSCHILD
COLLECTION AND THE BALTIMORE CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY FEATURING TOWSON UNIVERSITY FACULTY
Center for the Arts Recital Hall
Thursday, May 10, 7:30 pm
The Center for the Arts Gallery will be open from 6:30 pm to 9:30 pm to allow participants to experience the art and the music.
Randolph S. Rothschild, husband of Amalie Rothschild, whose work is in exhibition in the Center for the Arts Gallery from April 19th—June 19th, was a patron of contemporary American music and a champion of modern American composers. He was a major benefactor of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, the Peabody Conservatory and the Chamber Music Society of Baltimore, playing a significant role in the 1980s and 1990s Baltimore music world. Included in the performance are three works that were either commissioned by Rothschild or given their first Baltimore première through the Baltimore Chamber Music Society: one movement from Stephen Albert’s Cello Concerto, George Crumb’s Little Suite for Christmas and a work titled VCPR by former TU composer (now deceased) Gordon Cyr. The concert features Towson University faculty Eva Mengelkoch, piano; Reynaldo Reyes, piano and Cecylia Barcyzk, cello.
Admission is free.
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A Complex Weave:
Women and Identity in Contemporary Arts Symposium with Keynote Speaker Eleanor Heartney
This event was held on Friday, April 9, 2010 in the Center for the Arts.
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