so much to do ... Wook Kim, et. al.

LOF - Friday, March 19
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
William Brouillard
Professor of Ceramic Art – The Cleveland Institute of Art

Listen in as master ceramist William Brouillard discusses a personal practice which merges edgy imagry with superior craft.

William Brouillard has been inspiring young artists at the Cleveland Institute of Art for the past 30 years. A ceramist of renown, his work is held in private and public collections around the world and is included in collections owned by the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Art. From 1975 to 1979 he was a resident Potter at the Penland School of Crafts in North Carolina which is known as a epicenter for the promotion of contemporary craftwork and cutting edge craft skills. Brouillard has shared his personal expertise through lectures and workshops throughout the United States while maintaining his own practice through his studio on Cleveland’s near west side.

Foundations Visiting Artist
Wook Kim
Tuesday, March 23
7 pm – Aitken Auditorium, The Gund

Wook considers art an integral presence in the every day.

His wall coverings, eschewing distinctions made between “art” and the “decorative arts,” reflect his philosophy. His limitless inspirations range from a mix of decorative histories, entomology, tessellation, the urban landscape and beyond.

Wook Kim was born in Seoul, Korea and raised in the United States. His passion for textile design first emerged while a student. Wook continued to hone his craft as a designer at Sunbury Textile Mills in New York, and later as a graduate student at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Wook's design and installation work has been featured in the New York Times, Wallpaper Magazine, Lucky magazine, among others. A recent project is an installation in the flagship store for Philip Lim in Seoul South Korea.


LOF - Friday, April 2
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Gary Sampson, PhD
Professor of Art History – The Cleveland Insitute of Art

Currently an important member of the Insitute’s Liberal Arts Faculty, Dr. Sampson has taught at California State University, St. Lawrence University and Grand Valley State University. He has acted as a curator and is known for his expertise in Photographic History. He has contributed articles to such publications as Imag(in)ing Race and Place in Colonialist Photography: Transitory Propositions and Unmasking the Colonial Picturesque: Samuel Bourne’s Photographs of Barrackpore Park.

He has helped to develop the undergraduate program in digitial media. Further since coming to CIA in 1998 he has been seminal in promoting intellectual exchange and generating opportunities for professional dialogue between Studio and Liberal Arts. He is the former Chair of Liberal Arts and served as Dean of Graduate Programing.

Of his upcoming Lunch on Friday talk, Sampson says:
“This is a work-in-progress talk. As an art, design, and photography historian, my primary research interest is in the representation of landscapes and space through photography and digital media. One of my current projects involves the modern industrial and urban environment in relationship to the emerging city of globalized systems, which grew out of my own photography and a recent interdisciplinary seminar sponsored by the Baker-Nord Center for the Humanities at Case Western Reserve University. What concerns me especially is how utopian impulses of the early twentieth-century are evident in the architecture and technological infrastructure of the contemporary urban landscape; and how such impulses are portrayed in visual culture.”

LOF - Friday, April 9
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Sarah Kabot: Artist’s Talk
Head of Drawing – Cleveland Institute of Art
West Prize Finalist

Kabot has given new meaning to what it means to emerge as an artist. She has been included in gallery shows at Mixed Greens, NYC; The Drawing Center, NYC; and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY. She has been a resident artist at Dieu Donne Papermill, NYC; and at Sculpture Space, Utica, NY. Most recently she is one of the finalists for the highly prestigious 2010 West Prize.

With unique authority and through the impetus of work that is exquiste in its fragile vision, Sarah Kabot speaks to what it means to have a career beyond locale demonstrating clearly those possibilities in her own practice.

LOF – Friday, April 16
12:15 – Ohio Bell Auditorium, The Gund
Petra Soesemann: Artist’s Talk
Environmental Chair – Cleveland Institute of Art
2009 Roswell Resident

In 2009 Soesemann, the Chair of the Insitute’s Foundation Environment, went on sabbatical to focus on her work while in residence at the Roswell Program. Noted for her works constructed of layered shears, evocative of mystery, she is the subject of the recently published biographic poetry collection Incident Light by H.L. Hix. She has also been the reciepent of of a Fulbright Fellowhsip which took her to Peru to student Incan Arachitecture. She has studied Mayan Art and Architecture in Mexico, Honduras and Gatemala with the support of travel grants. Grants and awards include support from Cornell University; the Illinois Arts Council; and the Ford Foundation. More recently her studies have taken her to Turkey to explore historic and contemporary Islamic and Turkish art.