Are you looking for something for you and your children to do this Saturday? Please join us for a special Creative Kids session, featuring local author Sindy Smith.
At 11:30am and 1:30pm, Sindy Smith will help children write and illustrate their own short stories, with a book signing to follow.
Classes are $1/person, and last approximately one hour. Please call 618.222.5278 to register.
For more information on Sindy Smith, please visit http://www.illinoisauthors.org/authors/Sindy_Lynne_Smith.
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Tagged art projects, Children's Programming, classes, Creative Kids, Sindy Smith, young art
Domestic Musings from Above, featuring Brigham Dimick & Benjamin Stern
Brigham Dimick's "Honor and Beluga"
Painter Brigham Dimick and photographer Benjamin Stern portray landscapes from a bird’s eye view to reflect on family and memory.
Beginning with photographs of his children, Dimick incorporates painted scenes of whales and representations of their migratory paths to “examine the rifts between their innocent musings about the natural world and the larger environmental concerns about the same subject.”
Benjamin Stern's "Workshop"
Photographer Benjamin Stern re-creates landscapes of childhood memories. Using a grid method, Stern photographs hundreds of close-up images of a chosen area and combines them to create an exact photographic representation of the area. “The topological approach to photography gives us insight into how land has been used, organized, and controlled through time.”
Welcome to My World, featuring Roberta Elliott
Roberta Elliott's "Off the Wall I"
Blacksmith Roberta Elliott creates botanical shapes and wall collages using recycled, forged metals. These organic styles and natural themes evoke continual growth and her background as an organic gardener.
Paper Mosaics, featuring Benji Rowan
Benji Rowan's "Iceberg II" (detail)
Shape, color, and figure come together to produce two-dimensional narratives in Rowan’s paper mosaics. As “decorated stories,” his paintings allow each viewer to draw their own conclusions about the stories they tell.
Posted in Exhibitions
Tagged art, Benjamin Stern, Benji Rowan, blacksmith, Brigham Dimick, exhibit, exhibition, metal, mosaic, painting, photography, Roberta Elliott
The Schmidt Art Center is now accepting artist proposals for the 2013 exhibition year.
To have your work considered for an exhibit, please submit 12 – 20 digital images on a CD, along with an artist statement and résumé listing previous exhibits, awards, and education.
The Schmidt Art Center Exhibition Committee meets a year in advance to review proposals and recommend exhibits. We welcome proposals year-round.
For more information on how to submit, please visit our website – SchmidtArt.swic.edu, and click on the “How to Submit” link.
Posted in Exhibitions, Proposals
Tagged 2013, art, coming soon, January 2011, Looking for artists, Proposals, Submit
Please join us for the opening reception of Making It, featuring Meredith Foster, Lebecca Peterson, Frank Roth, & Doug Eskra, October 20th, 6 – 8 pm.
Exhibition open through December 16th
Meredith Foster's "Forum II" detail
While traditional drawings use lines to create the illusion of three-dimensional space, Meredith Foster draws by cutting overlapping layers of paper and Mylar to create holes. These shallow cut spaces appear to have great depth when looked at from one angle, but are flat compositions from another viewpoint. In these works, she explores the notion of our awareness of a place is a combination of both the experienced space and our idea of that space.
Lebecca Peterson's "Antique Shop Chair"
Labecca Peterson’s work deals with our changing relationship to objects in those spaces. To create her paintings, she prints her photographs of chairs on canvas and then uses traditional oil painting techniques to create their environment. She sees the chairs as a metaphor for the human condition; their styles represent design sensibilities of a particular era, the signs of wear giving them individuality. Peterson’s romantic, painterly brushwork shows her affection for these underappreciated subjects.
Frank Roth's "I Like That Item" detail
Frank Roth was a successful graphic designer and teacher at Washington University School of Art, now called the Sam Fox School of Design and Visual Art. After retiring, Roth began to photograph in earnest. His experience as a designer is evident in the entertaining compositions he selects from seemingly random groups of people or views of the landscape. Once the image is chosen, he expertly controls the printing process to produce a print comparable in quality to the work of a master lithographer or other fine art print. After seeing Roth’s work, the print button on your computer will seem like a mere toy.
Doug Eskra retired last year after 40 years on the SWIC art faculty. He too, is an example of “making it.” He has successfully made a life in art for himself.
For more information on our programs and exhibitions, as well as directions, please visit us at SchmidtArt.swic.edu.
