The Cleveland Institute of Art ... LOF and some wednesdays...

CIA is rockin' ... all term long.

We've got some amazing Lunch on Fridays talks coming up and we're busy at work for the spring. Put it on your calendars and be there. Also make note... Wednesdays are starting to crank as well with "Some Wednesdays" now providing additional opportunities to hear people talk about the things you love. And... of course... there's Cinematheque. John Ewing and Tim Harry keep us entertained when no one else can. (Did you see the NY Times Travel section on Cleveland. So True.) Check out Cinematheque.

To kick off the Wednesdays... This Wednesday, September 30, 5 pm ... Cuban Contemporary Art Specialist Helmo Hernandez will be speaking in Aitken. This is a great chance to really see some edgy work and there will be a reception to follow. This amazing event is being made possible by The Cleveland Foundation. If you're at all interested in Cuban OR Contemporary Art you should definitely come.

One of our focuses for the fall LOF talks has been the professional activities of Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty. Royden Watson speaks tomorrow and he's shown all over the place including Berlin... and then on October 2 we will have the opportunity to hear Photography Head Barry Underwood speak. Both artists are amazing and Underwood has been instrumental in blazing the residency trail. He has had a number of residencies, including one at The Banff Centre, and more recently at the Headlands in California. I personally find his work intriguing and beautiful and am looking forward to his talk.

As many of you may know Saul Ostrow and Charles Tucker were the organizers of The Banff Centre's Spring Residency "Analogous Fields." A perfect artist fit for this investigatory look into the overlaps between art and science was the Institute's own Amanda Almon. As a residency participant she spent the spring in the Canadian Rockies pursuing her own work. Almon, the Head of CIA's remarkable Biomedical Arts program, works in an overlap of her own exploring the intersects of studio art through the skills and knowledge of her applied field. The results of her explorations are currently on view as part of CIA's faculty exhibit and the public can hear her speak about her work on Friday, October 9.

LOF, October 16 – Matthew Beckwith -- Industrial Design's up and coming young faculty member is one of Cleveland's hottest talents. He is also notable for his abilities in connecting with his students and his outreach work ... including his current engagement with the students of Design Lab, located at Jane Addams High School.


LOF, October 23 – Megan Ehrhart

Like her colleague Amanda Almon, Ehrhart is another young and exciting artist crossing boundaries in her digital media-based work. Over the course of the summer she lived and worked in the remote French countryside while an Artist in Residence at Camac Centre D'Art in Marnay-Sur-Seine. While there she generated the piece, "Echoes of Abandonment", a facet of a larger media installation entitled "Grounded."

While in France, Ehrhart has said the remote location forced her to slow down and look to innovation and self-reflection to generate her work. Consequently, while there, her worked thrived. Another talk I'm really looking forward to...

Really one of my favorite things about being in Cleveland is getting to meet so many truly interesting people who are as into what they do as I am.

Cleveland Institute of Art Faculty residents take center stage at Lunch on Fridays

“Lunch on Fridays” happens Fridays at 12:15 in CIA’s Gund Building. It runs from August 28 to November 20 in the Fall and from January 15 to April 16 in the Spring. It is an ongoing series that is free and open to the public. The series is jointly sponsored by the Liberal Arts and Foundation Environments with additional support coming from other Cleveland Institute of Art Environments.

Speakers and Events are subject to change – please check the Institute Website for updates.
All events take place in Ohio Bell Auditorium, located in the Gund Building unless otherwise specified.
All the listings below are part of Lunch on Fridays unless otherwise specified.
CIA Faculty Exhibition

Thursday, September 4, 6:30 pm
Reinberger Galleries (next door to Cinematheque)
Cleveland Institute of Art – Gund Building

And then…

EMIT, Student Film Festival:
Thursday, September 4, 8 pm
Aitken Auditorium
Cleveland Institute of Art – Gund Building

Free and Open to the public – EMIT is the premier showcase for the film, video and animation creations of CIA students. It will screen in the same auditorium as Cinematheque taking full advantage of the silver screen.


LOF, September 4 – Heather Lemonedes and Caroline Goeser from CMA

On Friday, September 4th, as part of the Friday Lunch Lecture Series, students and the CIA community will be introduced to the "CIA Students: Cleveland 2009" exhibition at the Cleveland Museum of Art. In short, CIA students have been invited to mount an exhibition in the CMA cafe gallery, juried through a proposal process in conjunction with the CMA "Paul Gauguin: Paris 1889" exhibition.

Heather Lemonedes, Ph.D., Associate Curator of Drawings from the CMA will speak about the influence of this Volpini Exhibition on the art career of Paul Gauguin, and Caroline Goeser, Associate Director for Interpretation, CMA, will speak to the assembly about the Café Exhibition at the conclusion of the lecture. Time will be given for a Question & Answer session from the students.

LOF, September 11 – Lizzy Lee

Title of Talk: Anonymous (Graphic Designer) Nobody

After receiving her BFA in communication design from Parsons School of Design in 1998, Lizzy has been a graphic designer and art director in the fields of design, advertising, and branding for such clients as The New York Times, Martha Stewart, Jean-Georges Vongrichten, and The Gap/Banana Republic with agencies including Doyle Partners, Number Seventeen, Gyro Advertising, and Desgrippes Gobé. In 2006, she moved from NYC to Cleveland, where she worked as the Exhibition Graphic Designer for the Cleveland Museum of Art designing special exhibitions, wayfinding, and environmental graphics. Early in 2009, she and Danielle Rini Uva, a fellow graphic designer and educator created a collaborative design partnership, Rini Uva Lee. RUL happily works long hours for their clients, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland Public Art, and the AIDS Taskforce of Greater Cleveland.


LOF, September 18 – Barbara Stanczak

Barbara Stanczak pillar of the Cleveland Art Community and influential and revered Professor at CIA discusses her travels and her life as an artist.
“I take pleasure in the beauty and wonder of the earth. My sculptures are an expression of gratitude, a search for parallel, tangible, formal experiences that can be shared with others.”

http://barbarastanczak.com/

LOF, September 25 – Royden Watson

Internationally exhibited artist Royden Watson has shown in cities including Berlin and New York and was MOCA Cleveland’s 2002 featured Pulse artist. Watson was born in Cleveland and received his undergraduate degree from Pratt with an MFA from Kent State.

He is noted for his conceptually cutting works which transform wooden studs and gallons of milk into the subjects of trompe l’oeil works. Watson will discuss his artistic practice and the choices he’s made to achieve his goals. Audience members will have the rare opportunity to see an overview of his rich career.

He is currently teaching for the Institute in the Drawing Major and in the Foundation Environment.

LOF, October 2 – Barry Underwood

Internationally exhibited photographer and head of the Institute’s Photography program, Underwood will discuss his summer at the Headlands Residency outside San Francisco. He will also provide an overview of his intriguing, ephemeral and beautiful imagery.

“Appearing as intrusions and interventions within the landscape, these photographs explore issues of illusion, imagination, narrative, and the potential of the ordinary… transformed into the extraordinary through light and composition…”

http://www.barryunderwood.com/

Barry Underwood’s work is housed in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; TIAA-CREFF, New York; Speak Magazine, San Francisco; as well as many numerous private collections across the country.

LOF, October 9 – Amanda Almon

Head of the Biomedical Arts Program at CIA, Almon works in the professional arena doing state of the art 3D animations of scientific subjects and in the Visual Arts exploring the intersect between the observed scientific and existing social issues. In her talk Almon will give an overview of her integrated professional practice with particular attention given to her six-week summer residency at the Banff Centre located in Alberta, Canada.

http://bioartmedia.com/home.html


LOF, October 16 – Matthew Beckwith

A young and vibrant talent, Beckwith works in the professional and educational realms as an Industrial Designer. He is particularly noted for his ability to work collaboratively and lead. He is currently acting as a volunteer consultant with the Design Lab program located at Jane Addams High School as well as teaching her at the Institute.

LOF, October 23 – Meghan Ehrhardt

Discusses her French Summer residency.

LOF, October 30 – Special Halloween Event!!!!

LOF, November 6 – Richard Martel

Special Friday presentation, November 13 – NEXT

LOF, November 20 – (TBD)

2009 BFAs at CIA rocked...

BFA week is always my favorite time of year at school. I love walking around to all the exhibits, seeing and hearing what students have been working on and having frankly interesting conversations with my colleagues about my favorite topics... art, philosophy, etc.

It's interesting to me to see as well how students grapple, really for the first time, with those issues which confront us throughout our careers as artists...

What are we doing?
How should we do it?
Who are we doing it for?
How do I get an audience (without being a complete and total ass or maybe how do I become a complete and total ass so I don't have to worry about this part any more?)
How do I talk about my work?

I sometimes find student work particularly interesting because students (not always) but sometimes are less self-conscious about the work itself. Some, unfortunately, can't turn the voices off and end up making or defending work for some imagined, mental Frankenstein of another... Oh well... that's a creature I know as well.

I think the BFA defense is an incredible experience for these young artists. What a confidence builder to be able to take on your faculty and remain aware. It's a thrill to see them accomplish this.

The images are from Matthew Palmer's BFA defense.

julie's talk...

I'll post more later... for now.

CIA BFAs - May 4 through May 9 - Party May 8!

Thomas Zummer gave the last “Lunch on Fridays” talk of the spring semester. The turnout was excellent and the pizza was delicious as always. A wonderfully witty and deeply intelligent man we’re looking forward to having him with us as a visiting artist for the Fall semester.

Coming up this week are of course BFAs. It’s always an exciting week that gives the CIA community an opportunity to see what all the seniors have been working on and engage in the always scintillating exchanges that go along with the defenses. While not open to the public during the day, in the evenings and especially on Friday night when there’s a huge party the public’s invited in to take a look around. It’s my favorite week of the school year.

The Cleveland Institute of Art
BFA Thesis Show
JMC – the Factory
11610 Eculid Ave
Cleveland

Public Hours –
Monday, May 4 to Thursday, May 7
7 pm to 9 pm
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Saturday, May 9
10 am to 5 pm
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Friday, May 8
BFA Reception and Party
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
7 pm to 11 pm

Thomas Zummer -- the last "Lunch on Fridays" for this season

I'm really looking forward to this talk. I think it's going to be interesting.

Friday, April 27
12:15
Ohio Bell Auditorium - CIA - Gund

Static, Fragments, Afterimages: Problematics of the Image
a talk by - Thomas Zummer

An investigation into the technics and mediation of images, from drawing to digital.

Professor Zummer will discuss some of the practical, and philosophical, aspects of the disposition of images in relation to the technologies, theories and practices of contemporary art-making. He will also present a selection of his own works.

Whether they are used in a primary, secondary, or subsidiary capacity, digital technologies are both ubiquitous and unavoidable for artists and academics. Even the Göttingen Manual, a medieval ‘recipe book’ for the admixture of pigments, or the archives of the Maison du companionage (preserving ancient texts on methods of ironwork, stonework, carpentry, stained glass and tapestry) are available in a digital format. It is also the case that contemporary artists have recourse to remarkable technologies for research and investigation; digital technologies that shape and constrain—and preserve—other media, in a process of remediation. While this process may be masked, or foregrounded (depending upon notions of affect, purity or truth to materials) in primary artworks, it is to be found in almost every subsidiary aspect of a professional career: in the technical reproduction of images, in preliminary compositions, in books, portfolios, curriculae vitae, reviews, promotional materials, and historical archives.

Mr. Zummer will be teaching a sculpture class for the Visual Arts and Technology Environment – “Rhetorical Object (Conceptual Constructions)”

As always “Lunch on Fridays” is free and open to the public. It is sponsored jointly by the Foundation and Liberal Arts Environments. Mr. Zummer appears through the courtesy of the Visual Arts and Technology Environment.

Sarah Kabot and Coventry Creations

Remember -- Tonight Sarah Kabot 5:30 opening (that's right I had the time wrong!) and 6:30 artist talk at the Sculpture Center here in Cleveland, Ohio.

Also tonight -- "Animal Talk Back" as part of Coventry Creations -- 6 pm.
and opening also at 6 pm in the same space, "Imagining a Sustainable Life" opens (curator - Will Laughlin) both are at 1854 Coventry Road. (Charles Tucker will be in a Turkey suit.)