Please join us for these upcoming artist lectures, which will focus on the work produced for the exhibition currently in Ross Galleries, Forged Landscapes (on view through 11/14).
Sharon Dowell – October 24 in Ross Gallery, 12 p.m.
Ahmad Sabha – October 29 in AU 011, 12 p.m.
Thanks to all of you who joined us for the Opening Reception for FORGED LANDSCAPES last Thursday night. Your presence is always appreciated.
This show will be on view in Ross Gallery through 11/14. To learn more about these two artists, Sharon Dowell and Ahmad Sabha, please consider attending one of their artist lectures:
Sharon Dowell: 10/24 in Ross Gallery at noon
Ahmad Sabha: 10/29 in AU 011 at noon (CPCC Central Campus on 4th Street)
The CPCC Galleries welcomed about 100 visitors to Tate Hall today to hear Janet Williams talk about her career, past bodies of work, and Topography of Touch, the series now on view in Ross Gallery. All who attended would agree she is a very strong, creative woman who has had an impressive life.
Janet Williams: A Topography of Touch is on view through September 26.
Thanks to all who joined us at the opening reception for Janet Williams: A Topography of Touch.
Janet’s artist lecture is at 2 pm this Monday in Tate Hall. Come to learn more about Janet’s career as an artist and this body of work.
Join us for light refreshments as we celebrate Janet Williams: A Topography of Touch, the first show opening this academic year with CPCC Art Galleries. The artist will be present.
Mark your calendars for her artist lecture on Monday, September 9 at 2 pm in Tate Hall.
Join us for an Opening Reception August 28 from 5 – 7 pm
Artist Lecture in Tate Hall September 9, 2 pm
Guided Tour in Ross Gallery to follow
Janet Williams: A Topography of Touch
Ross Gallery
August 12 – September 26, 2013
Opening Reception, Wednesday, August 28, 5:00-7:00 pm in Ross Gallery
Artist Lecture Monday, September 9 at 2:00 in Tate Hall followed by an artist led tour in Ross Gallery
The exhibit will feature a collection of ceramic and porcelain works inspired by the concept of identification. Born in the United Kingdom, Williams recently became a citizen of the United States, a process that required the documentation of her physical body through fingerprinting. This experience inspired her to explore the ways people identify themselves from a cultural and geographical standpoint.
As a result, she commonly uses her fingerprint as a starting point; with digital and hands-on techniques, she translates it into a porcelain relief piece, creating topographic and architectural structures. This juxtaposition, using a technological program to digitally map out ways to manipulate an ancient, organic material, led her to a new question of identity: humanity’s place in a technological world.
On Thursday, June 27, Ross Gallery hosted an opening reception for the exhibition Self-Portraits Inspired by Alberto Giacometti. We welcomed our friends from the Bechtler Museum and Mallard Creek high school to celebrate the accomplishments of a group of talented high schoolers whose paintings were on view. Guests enjoyed a lecture on the life of Giacometti by Christopher Lawing, Vice President of Programming and Research at the Bechtler Museum, and after, a few short words by students who participated.
Thanks to all who joined us for this wonderful reception.
To learn more about this exhibition, on view through August 5, please click here to read the press release.
Join us for an opening reception honoring CMS students’ participation in
Self-Portraits Inspired by Giacometti
Thursday, June 27, 5:30-7:00
With a short talk by Christopher Lawing, Vice President of Programming and Research at the Bechtler Museum of Art
June 21 – August 5, 2013
10 a.m. – 2 p.m., Monday – Thursday
Opening reception: June 27, 5:30 – 7 p.m.
As part of an educational outreach program with the Bechtler Museum of Modern Art, Central Piedmont Community College will display a series of self-portraits created by Mallard Creek High School students that were inspired by a special exhibition at the museum, “Giacometti: Memory and Presence.”
The Bechtler exhibition showcased Giacometti’s life and career, portraying him as one of the most recognized 20th century modernists. The class of 17 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) students visited the museum to view the artist’s works in person. During the visit, students were able to examine each Giacometti piece in detail, including the many techniques the artist used to create each work of art. Following the field trip, the high school students were able to return to their Advanced Visual Arts class and apply the same artistic methods to their own self-portraits.
Please join us in honoring these CMS students at an opening reception on Thursday, June 27 from 5:30-7. Vice President of programming and research, Christopher Lawing, will give a short presentation.
Special thanks goes to Erica Somerwitz, School and Community Programs Manager at the Becthler, Beth Lasure, Mallard Creek High School Advanced Visual Art instructor, and Ginny Boyd, teaching artist-in-residence at the Bechtler Museum.