Presentations:
Summer Lecture Series with
WCU/MFA Visiting Art Faculty
Six Friday Nights in June and July
June 9, 16, 30 and July 14, 21, 28, 2006
All presentations begin at 7:00 p.m.
Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center
56 Broadway, downtown Asheville
FREE!
Sponsored by BMCM+AC and the Western Carolina University MFA Program
The Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center and the Western Carolina University MFA Program are partnering this summer to present a series of six slide lectures by Visiting Faculty in the Master of Fine Arts Program at WCU. Now in its third year, the WCU MFA program has grown into an important regional asset. Each summer a diverse and accomplished roster of visiting artist faculty members spend an intense period of weeks at WCU working with students in the degree program. We are fortunate to have the opportunity to hear these important contemporary artists in Asheville during this series of slide lectures. All presentations will begin at 7:00p.m. and are free.
Friday, June 9 – Jane Dickson
Jane Dickson is a painter living and working in New York City. Born in Chicago, she graduated from the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and Harvard University. Her work, now represented through Marlborough Gallery, examines social and cultural themes and is included in many public collections such as the Brooklyn Museum, the Art Institute of Chicago, Victoria and Albert Museum, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Museum of Art, Toledo Museum of Art , The Library of Congress, and more.
Friday, June 16 – Stephen Westfall
Stephen Westfall is an abstract painter who lives and works in New York. His paintings have been described as “having the ability to hold, simple and silent, a thought.” His current appointment is as Chair of the Painting Department at Bard College, Milton Avery School of the Arts. He has received three National Endowment for the Arts awards and two grants from the New York State Council on the Arts. Westfall’s recent solo exhibitions include museums and galleries in San Francisco, New York, Santa Fe, Philadelphia, Munich, and Paris.
Friday, June 30 – Barbara Grossman
Barbara Grossman is a colorist who resides and works in rural Connecticut. She has exhibited nationally for 25 years and recently was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship by the Connecticut Commission on the Arts. A Fulbright Scholar (Germany), Grossman has also twice received
the National Academy of Design Award for Painting. She has held teaching positions at the University of Pennsylvania, Vermont Studio Center, Chautauqua Institution and Yale University. Most recently she was the artist-in-residence at Hollins University and Dartmouth College. Currently she serves on the graduate faculty at Yale University.
Friday, July 14 – Dan Jocz
Daniel Jocz has been called the bad boy of contemporary jewelry design. He incorporates aspects of architecture, sculpture, painting, drawing and the decorative arts in his work. Trained as a sculptor and draughtsman Jocz, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has gained international prominence in the metalsmithing field. He has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the world including the Czech Republic, Germany, France, Spain, Scotland, England, Belgium, Netherlands, Finland, and others. His major gallery in the United States is Mobilia in Boston. He has been the recipient of two Massachusetts Artists Fellowships.
Friday, July 21 – George Hildrew
Brooklyn based painter, George Hildrew, has exhibited in New York at Poindexter Gallery, Luise Ross Gallery and E.M. Donahue Gallery. His work has been described as mannered conceptualism within a contemporary folk tradition. In the 1990s he was listed with a group of artists who were producing a new kind of narrative art, or post-bad or new image painting, or a kind of culturally induced naiveté. A Fulbright Scholar (Italy) Hildrew’s latest narratives deal with alien and terrorist encounters.
Friday, July 28 – Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco is a New York-based interdisciplinary artist and writer and associate professor in the Visual Arts Division of Columbia University’s School of the Arts. She has performed, lectured, exhibited and curated around the world since 1988. She is the author of English is Broken Here (The New Press,1995), The Bodies That Were Not Ours and Other Writings (Routledge/inIVA, 2001) and the editor of Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas (Routledge, 1999) and Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self (Abrams, 2003). Fusco is a recipient of a 2003 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. Fusco’s works have been included in major exhibitions such as The Whitney Biennial, Sydney Biennale, The Johannesburg Biennial, The Kwangju Biennale, The London International Theatre Festival, and VideoBrasil.
