First Year MFA Exhibition

Be sure to check out the First Year MFA Exhibition in the John and June Alcott Gallery. It will be up until February 10, 2010.

First Year MFA students are:

Jessye McDowell

Ray Padron

Travis Donovan

Tracy Spencer

Carolyn Butler

Lydia McCarthy

Steven Sewell

Hollin Norwood

Shinique Smith-Hanes Visiting Lecture Series

On Tuesday evening, the UNC Art Department will present the next installment in this year's Hanes Visiting Artist Series.

Please come by the auditorium (to the right of the Alcott Gallery) at 5:30pm for a presentation by Shinique Smith.

Ms. Smith has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally, most recently in solo shows at the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Yvon Lambert Gallery.

For more info:

Yvon Lambert Gallery

Shinique Smith on Artnet

Allan deSouza - Hanes Visiting Artist Series

On Tuesday evening, the UNC Art Department will present the next installment in this year's Hanes Visiting Artist Series.

Please come by the auditorium (to the right of the Alcott Gallery) at 5:30pm for a presentation by Allan deSouza.

Mr. deSouza is a recent recipient of a Getty Fellowship Award in Visual Arts and currently teaches at the San Francisco Art Institute.

For more info:

Allan deSouza on ArtNet

Allan deSouza at San Francisco Art Institute site

Art:21 Screening Tonight

Come by the Hanes Art Center Auditorium tonight at 6:30p for an advanced screening of the first part of PBS' new season of Art:21. This first segment is titled "Transformation."

Tonight the UNC Dept of Art will be showing the segments on Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, and Yinka Shonibare.

Discussion will be led by UNC Professor of Art History Cary Levine.

Cellar Door submissions due October 4.

The deadline for submitting work to the Cellar Door, UNC's arts journal, is coming up very soon - October 4th.

If you're interested in having some work reviewed to be published so the whole campus can check it out (also looks awesome on your resumes), please check out the Cellar Door website for detailed instructions:

http://studentorgs.unc.edu/thedoor/

Rees Sweeney-Taylor, who is on the staff of the Cellar Door will be coming by the ART 105-004 class in room #0316 on September 23rd at 10:45 to talk about the magazine and answer any questions.

Kip Fulbeck reception tomorrow

The reception for Kip Fulbeck will be tomorrow evening at 7pm at the FedEx Global Education Center.

You can get complete details and directions on the UNC site here: http://uncnews.unc.edu/content/view/2666/107/

A brief bio from his web site:

Kip Fulbeck is an American artist, slam poet and filmmaker. He is the author of Permanence: Tattoo Portraits; Part Asian, 100% Hapa; Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography; and the upcoming Mixed: Portraits of Multiracial Kids, as well as the director of a dozen short films including Banana Split and Lilo & Me.

A challenging and inspirational teacher, Kip is a professor of Art at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is the recipient of the university's Distinguished Teaching Award. He is also an avid surfer, guitar player, motorcycle rider, ocean lifeguard, and pug enthusiast. A complete overachiever despite being only half Chinese, he is also a world-ranked Masters swimmer.

New Work by Elin O'Hara Slavick

Elin O'Hara Slavick, Professor of Art at UNC, is currently showing her new work - Flags for Hiroshima - at Cosign Projects in St. Louis Missouri.

The work deals with the lasting and current effects of atom bomb on contemporary politics and culture.

Slavick writes,

"Flags for Hiroshima is made up of three flags, each one holding an image of a Hiroshima dandelion. Each flag displays a city's name on the back: Hiroshima, Baghdad and St. Louis. Exhibiting these flags at Cosign Gallery in St. Louis, I wish to connect these faraway places to the local, as well as the past to the present (and possibly the future) and to help people make those connections."

Check out the site at http://www.cosignprojects.net/current.html for more pictures and info.

Please read the artist's statement at Counter Punch: http://www.counterpunch.org/ohara09182009.html