arts and culture calendar
Art Events
FEBRUARY
Asian Arts and Culture Center
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.
Asian Arts and Culture Center
iona rozeal brown: afro-asiatic allegory
Center for the Arts Asian Arts Gallery
Thursday, February 9 – Saturday, May 12
Opening Reception and Curator’s Talk: Saturday, February 11, 2 – 4 p.m.
iona rozeal brown, one of the nation’s most exciting artists, created a theme after traveling to Japan in 2001. Informed by Ukiyo-e (the fashionable genre painting, known as “pictures of the floating world” that first appeared in 17th century Japan),brown’s Asian cultural investigations and interpretations offer profound commentaries about mimicry, gender and constructions of culture. The large-scale installation features a selection of paintings and prints as well as a new mural created exclusively for this exhibition, which will be completed in the gallery. During brown’s artist residency, an open studio from February 7 to 9, 4-5 p.m., invites public dialogue and viewing of the mural work in progress. Brown will also conduct a workshop with students of the New Song Academy, a school in Baltimore City, that has a long history of collaboration with Towson University. brown is represented by G Fine Art Gallery in Washington, D.C.
Admission is free.
Department of Art + Design
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.
Department of Art + Design
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 directing the sculpture program at Towson University for over 30 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
Department of Art + Design
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.
Department of Art + Design
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.
Department of Art + Design
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
Department of Art + Design
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.
Department of Art + Design
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 imaginative and versatile artist, Amalie Rothschild (1916-2001). Rothschild produced over 1,500 works--350 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 University College presented her with a Maryland Lifetime Achievement Award. The exhibition is in conjunction with the publication of a book on the life and work of of Amalie Rothschild, with essays by Amalie R. Rothschild, Angelo Pontecorboli, Nancy G. Heller, J. Susan Isaacs, Fred Lazarus IV, Herbert L. Kessler, and Percy North.
Admission is free.
Department of Art + Design
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.
Department of Art + Design
42nd ANNUAL SPRING POTTERY SALE
Center for the Arts Ceramics Suite Room 3010
Friday, May 4, 7– 9 p.m.
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.
Department of Art + Design
J. SUSAN ISAACS, PHD SABBATICAL LECTURE:
AMALIE ROTHSCHILD: THE EVOLUTION OF AN ABSTRACT STYLE
Center for the Arts, CA 2032
Thursday, May 10, 6 pm
Dr. Isaacs is curator of the exhibition, Amalie Rothschild: A Retrospective View in the Center for the Arts Gallery and also wrote two of the chapters for the book Life and Work of Amalie Rothschild, 2012. She will be speaking on Rothschild's development as an artist. The Center for the Arts Gallery will be open until 9:30 pm that evening and there is a related concert at 7:30 in the Center for the Arts Recital Hall of music commissioned by the artist's husband, Randolph S. Rothschild, featuring Towson University faculty. Admission is free.
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