Kennesaw State School of Art and Design 2019-2020 Season Brochure

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BE TRANSFORMED by the College of the Arts at Kennesaw State University. Home to the School of Art and Design, Department of Dance, School of Music, and the Department of Theatre and Performance Studies, we are one of the most artistically vibrant communities in Georgia. A diverse mix of student, faculty and guest artist presentations in the Dr. Bobbie Bailey & Family Performance Center, Dance Theater, Fine Arts Gallery, Onyx Theater, Stillwell Theater and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, add to the artistic vibrancy of our region.

We are thrilled to launch the artsKSU professional presenting season across all four disciplinary units in the College of the Arts this year, bringing to Atlanta internationally renowned performers, presenters and companies.

The arts at KSU are vital to the ecology of our campus and Atlanta community, providing opportunities to enrich people’s lives through over 100 artistic experiences, while advancing the mission of our student-centered public institution. We are a community of artists and scholars committed to expanding the boundaries of knowledge, possibility and imagination.

Please join us for our transformational 2019-20 season.

Ivan Pulinkala, Ed.D. Dean, College of the Arts

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ArtsKSU presents an exciting professional season in art and design, dance, music, theatre and solo performance, featuring internationally renowned artists and companies.

The artsKSU Gold Star Subscriber Series Select any five of the Gold Star Subscriber events.

Subscription - $125 KSU Community Discount - $99 Add any additional Gold Star event - $20 Fruitful Labors August 24-November 10 Reception August 24 | Mortin Galleries

Unbound January 25-May 10 Reception January 25 | East Galleries

Painting Who? August 24-December 15 Reception August 24 | East Galleries

Minton Sparks February 6-8 Thursday, 7:30 PM; Friday-Saturday, 8 PM Stillwell Theater

Daughter of a Cuban Revolutionary Marissa Chibas September 5-7 | Sept. 5, 7:30pm 8 PM | Stillwell Theater Walking Mad/Charlotte Ballet September 27-28 8 PM | KSU Dance Theater (Marietta Campus) Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Robert Spano, Conductor; Tengue Irfan, piano October 4 | 8 PM | Bailey Performance Center Cellist Zuill Bailey Violinist Helen Kim and KSU Symphony Orchestra October 9 | 8 PM | Morgan Concert Hall Anat Cohen Tentet Oded Lev-Ari, Musical Director November 9 | 8 PM | Morgan Concert Hall

Terminus Modern Ballet Theatre March 6-7 8 PM | KSU Dance Theatre (Marietta Campus) Othello: The Remix, The Q Brothers March 12-14 Thursday, 7:30 PM; Friday-Saturday, 8 PM Stillwell Theater Afro-Cuban Jazz Artist Brenda Navarrete March 21 8 PM | Morgan Concert Hall Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Nicholas Sparks, conductor Midori, violin April 17, 8 PM Bailey Performance Center

Looming Chaos January 25-May 10 Reception January 25 | Mortin Galleries ticketing.kennesaw.edu

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Serving over 800 majors, the School of Art and Design is the largest unit in the College of the Arts. The School continues to grow by offering students a BFA program in Digital Animation as well as new concentration areas of study in Illustration, Sequential Art and a BAT in Apparel Textiles Technology.

School of Art and Design student Adam Elder

A part of the School of Art and Design, the Bernard A. Zuckerman Museum of Art presents significant works from the University’s permanent art collection and regularly exhibits contemporary works of various media by local and nationallyrecognized artists. The Museum’s Fine Arts Satellite Gallery in the Wilson Building features faculty, student and alumni projects.

Learn more at arts.kennesaw.edu/visual-arts.

Please check your desired exhibition location and time on our website as we have many venues, and locations and times may change.

Photo by Bubba Carr

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Fall 2019 Capstones, Exhibitions, and Open Studio Alumni Exhibition Alumna Curator, Emily Knight Aug. 19 – Sept. 27, 2019 | Fine Arts Gallery Reception: Tuesday, Aug. 27, 5pm - 7pm Capstone I Exhibition: Art Education Oct. 8 – 18, 2019 | Fine Arts Gallery Reception: Monday, Oct. 14, 5pm - 7pm Fall Open Studio Oct. 24, 2019 | 5pm - 8pm Visual Arts Building, Kennesaw campus Capstone II Exhibition: Studio Art Oct. 29 – Nov. 8, 2019 | Fine Arts Gallery Reception: Monday, Nov. 4, 5pm - 7pm Empty Bowls Project November 7, 2019 | 11:30am - 1:00pm University Rooms, KSU Kennesaw Campus Cuban Super Heroes* (Fall) Nov. 11 – 22, 2019 | Joe Mack Wilson Student Center, KSU Marietta Campus Capstone III Exhibition: Studio Art Nov. 19 – Dec. 6, 2019 | Fine Arts Gallery Reception: Monday, Dec. 2, 5pm - 7pm *Presented as part of KSU’s 2019-20 Year of Cuba.

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Spring 2020 Capstones, Exhibitions, and Open Studio Visions 36th Annual Juried Student Exhibition Jan. 14 – Feb. 14, 2020 | Fine Arts Satellite Gallery Reception: Wednesday, Jan. 15, 5pm - 7pm Spring Open Studio Feb. 20, 2020 | 5pm - 8pm Visual Arts Building, Kennesaw campus Cuban Super Heroes* (Spring) Feb. 20 – Mar. 13, 2020 | Fine Arts Gallery KSU Kennesaw campus Reception: Tuesday, Feb. 25, 5pm - 7pm Capstone I Exhibition: Studio Art Mar. 24 – Apr. 10, 2020 | Fine Arts Satellite Gallery Reception: Monday, Apr. 6, 5pm - 7pm Capstone II Exhibition: Studio Art Apr. 21 – May 1, 2020 | Fine Arts Satellite Gallery Reception: Monday, Apr. 27, 5pm - 7pm Digital Animation Capstone/Owls Film Festival Plaza Theatre, Atlanta May 5, 2020; time TBA

*Presented as part of KSU’s 2019-20 Year of Cuba.

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Painting Who? AUG. 24 - DEC. 15

East Galleries, Zuckerman Museum of Art Reception: Saturday, Aug. 24 Painting Who? focuses on paintings that take on a personality of their own. They occupy real space and also demonstrate the illusion of space. They consciously, unapologetically, and simultaneously refer to the history of painting, the act of making a painting, and the contemporary world. In this layered and loaded territory, they reflect both the past and the present.

Artists include: Jeff Conefry Moira Dryer Gracie Devito Chris Hood Wihro Kim

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Wihro Kim New Life Here We Come, 2018 Oil on canvas | 50 x 70 inches

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Kaitlynn Redell Not Her(e) (rug), 2017 Digital C-Print

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Fruitful Labors AUG. 24 - NOV. 10

Mortin Galleries, Zuckerman Museum of Art Reception: Saturday, Aug. 24 Fruitful Labors focuses on strategies for coping.

Ranging from the absurd to the essential, these tactics include conversation, repetitive labor, intergenerational storytelling, and healing practices.

Artists include: Lenka Clayton Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn Shanequa Gay Stanya Kahn Michelle Laxalt Shana Moulton Kaitlynn Redell

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2nd National Arts Program Exhibition DEC. 2 - 15

Mortin Galleries and Henrique Atrium Reception: Thursday, Dec. 5 The National Arts Program (NAP) Exhibition is a campus-wide art show that highlights the creativity of KSU faculty and staff and their families. Work is accepted in a variety of categories, within which cash prizes are awarded by a panel of judges. This show is dedicated to transforming people and places by showcasing individual creativity, artistic expression, and community engagement.

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Sam Gilliam Untitled, 1970 Acrylic on canvas Collection of the Clark Atlanta University Art Museum

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UNBOUND JAN. 25 - MAY 10

East Galleries, Zuckerman Museum of Art Reception: Saturday, Jan. 25 Unbound brings together a multigenerational group of artists whose work takes an inventive and experimental approach to abstraction. Using Kobena Mercer’s definition of ‘discrepant abstraction’ — hybrid and partial, elusive and repetitive, obstinate and strange, including almost everything that does not neatly fit into the institutional narrative of abstract art as a monolithic quest for purity, Unbound explores the continued legacy of black artists who have utilized abstraction as a nonconformist visual language, and a lens through which social and political realities can be understood. Rooted in a formal visual language, their works consider the essential elements of abstract painting: color, form, gesture, line, and space, through unorthodox use of materials that break the confines of a rectangular canvas, and implode the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and installation.

Moving seamlessly between mediums, these artists reference the vernacular and every day while engaging mid-century modernist art traditions. Collectively, their works remix a formal artistic language with material experimentation and technical improvisation. The works on view stretch, hang, tether, and dangle off the walls, breaking free from the bounds of figuration, and complicating the boundaries of painting itself.

Unbound features the works of artists Sam Gilliam, Joe Overstreet, Eric N. Mack, Anthony Akinbola, Krista Clark, and Tariku Shiferaw.

Nzinga Simmons, Curator Tina Dunkley Curatorial Fellow CAUM/ZMA

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LOOMING CHAOS JAN. 25 - MAY 10

Mortin Galleries, Zuckerman Museum of Art Reception: Saturday, Jan. 25 This exhibition of Zipporah Camille Thompson’s work explores how the artist utilizes the construction inherent in weaving to paradoxically engage ideas of destruction and chaos. The tangible references to disorder and confusion represented in the choice of objects included in her work stand in contrast to the woven structure, thus echoing the cyclical processes of life. Within this focus, Thompson reveals and reconciles the deterioration of the environment, tumultuous personal histories, and the complexity of her own identity as fodder for creation.

The gathering of nature’s debris, manmade materials, and manufactured objects is a practiced ritual used to anchor the artist in the present by evoking the surety of the past.

Collected materials, ascribed with various meaning and memories, were once a source of solace that she often complicates at the site of the loom. By introducing disparate textures, clashing colors, and hybrid spiritual practices she creates a visual disharmony that is used to reproduce the tensions of the ever-present chaos.

This exhibition will show how the artist creates fantastical fiber abstractions that embody the chaotic realities of the present and its transformation into a foreign future.

TK Smith, Curator Tina Dunkley Curatorial Fellow CAUM/ZMA

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Zipporah Camille Thompson Requiem, 2015 Mixed media

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Spring Arts Festival 2020 Mar. 21, 11am to 4pm Visual Arts Building, Kennesaw campus

Celebrate the arts at the Spring Arts Festival!

This annual Festival features demonstrations and hands-on workshops in many two- and three-dimensional media. A pin-up show invites local artists and students to compete in four categories: elementary, middle, high school, and community. The Artist Market features 50 selected artists. Handcrafted works from a variety of media will be available for purchase.

During the festival guests have the opportunity to participate in the following: Raku fire Iron Pour Printmaking Inclusive Art Portrait Drawing Apparel Design Digital Greeting Cards Photo collage Painting

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The first College of the Arts Faculty Research Colloquium showcases KSU research projects in which the traditionally distinctive arts are influenced by or are engaged with methods, technologies, and approaches that have been adapted from the world of the sciences, engineering, and technology.

November 14, 2:00pm - 3:30pm, Ruth B. Zuckerman Pavilion

Lecture and Discussion : “The Aesthetic Brain” Dr. Anjan Chatterjee Elliott Professor & Chief of Neurology, Pennsylvania Hospital; Director, Penn Center for Neuroaesthetics, Philadelphia Tuesday, January 28, 2020, 3:30pm - 5:00pm, Stillwell Theater, Wilson Building, Main Campus Dr. Anjan Chatterjee will discuss his groundbreaking research using neurology to advance our understanding of the evolution, production and appreciation of art. Is art an accident of our brain function, or is it a fundamental human instinct?

How do we account for art’s universality across the world as far back in time as we can record, while also accounting for its cultural underpinnings, its tremendous variety, local expression, and “art for art’s sake” property? Chatterjee explores these questions and offers new highly innovative ways of thinking about art and neuroaesthetics.

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The Arts Meet Science and Technology: Faculty Research in the Arts Colloquium

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Undergraduate RESEARCH Join us for these free, original arts-based research presentations by our undergraduate students.

FALL 2019 Department of Theatre and Performance Studies: Friday, November 8, 2019, 12:00pm - 1:30pm, Wilson Building, Room 103 School of Music: Thursday, November 21, 2019, 1:00pm - 2:30pm in Music Building, Room 109

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School of Art and Design student Dylan Carter | Photo by KSU University Photographer

Forums SPRING 2020

School of Art and Design: Friday, January 24, 2020, 3:00pm - 4:30pm, Visual Arts Building, Room 222 Department of Dance: Monday, April 13, 2020, 3:30pm-5:00 pm, Chastain Pointe Dance Studios Department of Theatre and Performance Studies: Friday, April 17, 2020, 5pm - 6pm, Onyx Theater Spring 2020 Art History Capstone: Wednesday, April 22, 2020, 12:30 – 3:30pm, Wilson Building, Room 103 25

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