3/6/06 Contact:
Scott Bishop-Wagoner, 334/844-7014 (bishogs@auburn.edu)
Lauren Drablier, 334/844-3485 (drabllm@auburn.edu)
AU FACULTY
ART EXHIBITION TO RUN THROUGH MAY 14 AT JULE COLLINS SMITH MUSEUM
Lecture by Atlanta art critic Jerry Cullum to help kick off exhibit Friday,
March 10
AUBURN - “Art and the World in 2006,” an exhibition of works
of art by faculty in Auburn University’s Department of Art, will
be on exhibition at The Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art at Auburn
University Friday, March 10, through May 14.
The exhibition will feature new works in a wide variety of media and techniques
including ceramics, drawing, painting and sculpture. This biannual exhibition
offers the audience a glimpse into the research and artistic production
of the Auburn University art faculty. Works by 17 members of the art faculty
will be on display.
Interim Head of the Auburn University Art Department, Allyson Comstock,
said, “The faculty in the Department of Art includes a diverse group
of artists and designers. The work presented in this exhibition reflects
each individual’s creative research as a practicing artist or designer.
The exhibition provides the viewing public, and in particular students
enrolled in the Department of Art, a wonderful opportunity to explore
the creative work of the art faculty and to gain insight into how the
work they do in their own studios complements and informs their classroom
teaching.”
“The faculty exhibition is a great opportunity for the collegiate
community to see the results of our art faculty’s ‘research
and publications,’” added Michael W. Panhorst, director of AU’s
Jule Collins Smith Museum of Fine Art. “Like music and theatre faculty
whose ‘scholarly research’ often manifests itself in performances
(often newly written or interpreted), visual art faculty display their
original work on gallery walls. Our museum is delighted to provide a venue
for the exhibition of our art faculty’s recent work.”
In conjunction with the faculty show, Jerry Cullum, senior editor of the
Atlanta-based international art journal, “Art Papers,” will
speak on “Changing Modes of Censorship: Truth, Consequences, and
the Dwindling of Common Space” on March 10 at 6 p.m. in the JCSM
auditorium. Cullum will address the difficulties of mapping out the changing
modes of censorship. Reception will follow.
In addition to his position as editor of “Art Papers,” Cullum
reviews exhibitions for “ARTnews” as its Atlanta correspondent,
“Art in America,” and other publications. He has served as a
freelance reviewer for the “Atlanta Journal Constitution” since
1988.
Cullum has curated exhibitions for the Telfair Museum of Art in Savannah,
Ga; Georgia State University in Atlanta; Agnes Scott College in Decatur,
and co-curated a traveling exhibition presented throughout Europe.
Cullum’s lecture is sponsored by the Auburn University College of
Liberal Arts and is part of its semester long series, “The Nuisance
of Freedom,” which focuses on censorship.
The exhibition will also be accompanied by a series of lectures by the
art history faculty. For further information please visit www.jcsm.auburn.edu.
Auburn University is a preeminent land-grant and comprehensive research
institution with more than 23,000 students and 6,500 faculty and staff.
Ranked among the top 50 public universities nationally, Auburn is Alabama’s
largest educational institution, offering more than 230 undergraduate,
graduate and doctoral degree programs.
(Contributed by Grace Bishop; photo available upon request.)
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