The Department of Art hosts a vibrant Visiting Artist program. Artists, scholars and industry professionals are invited to give talks and lectures, visit with students, engage in critiques, and contribute to the creative and learning environment of the Department.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Ke Francis is a narrative artist that has been actively producing artwork for more than forty years. He and his wife Mary are the co-owners of HOOPSNAKE PRESS, a fine art press that publishes artist books and prints. His book works, paintings, prints, photographs and sculptures are in over thirty major public and private international collections including: The Getty Museum, National Gallery, National Museum of American Art, High Museum, New Orleans Museum of Fine Art, San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, Yale / Sterling Memorial Library, Van-Pelt Dietrich Collection, The Polaroid Collection, and the Ginsburg Collection in Johannesburg, South Africa among many others. He has had more than fifty one-person and two-person exhibits. Most recently, Mr. Francis had a one-person exhibit of sixty-one works at Terrace Gallery, Orlando City Hall that ran until January 6, 2012, a one-person exhibit of fifty books and prints at the Ringling College of Art and Design during November of 2011 and a one person exhibit at the Orlando Museum of fine Art in January of 2011.
This event is a part of the Kansas State University Department of Art Visiting Artists Series for the 2011-2012 Season.
Funded in part by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee
Image information: Rabbit Trap, Tar Baby, and the Flood; Woodcut, 30 x 40 inches
MANHATTAN —Kansas State University Department of Art will present the lecture “The Acoustic Art of City-Building” by internationally recognized art historian Dr. Niall Atkinson, October 13, 5:30 pm at the Beach Museum of Art on Kansas State University campus.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Dr. Niall Atkinson, the Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Chicago, earned his Ph.D. in the History of Architecture and Urbanism at Cornell University in 2009. From 2004 to 2006 he held a two-year pre-doctoral Kress Foundation Fellowship at the Kunsthistorisches Institut—Max Planck Institut in Florence, Italy and from 2007 to 2009 he was a member of Piazza e monumento, the institute’s collaborative research group that is investigating the history and form of the city square. Dr. Atkinson’s dissertation examined how people of the late medieval and early Renaissance period experienced the architecture and urban space of Florence. His research draws upon contemporary legislation, personal diaries, and descriptions in urban literature to demonstrate that architectural form and meaning were the product of the continual interplay of cultural practices. His findings have been presented at the meetings of the Renaissance Society of America, the Society of Architectural Historians, and the College Art Association, as well as at international conferences in Florence and Turin. Dr. Atkinson’s lecture at Kansas State, “The Acoustic Art of City-Building,” is drawn from a forthcoming article and deals in particular with the soundscape of medieval and Renaissance Florence.
This event is a part of the Kansas State University Department of Art Visiting Artists Series for the 2011-2012 Season.
Funded in part by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee
Image information:
Photograph: View of the thirteenth- and fourteenth-century bell towers of the Bargello, the Palazzo Vecchio and the Badia, Florence, Italy.
Photo: Niall Atkinson
Illustration: Workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida, illumination from Giovanni Villani’s Nuova Cronica, shortly after 1350, Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica, MS. Chigi L. viii. 296.
Photo: Vatican Libraries
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MANHATTAN —Kansas State University Department of Art will present the lecture “Teri Frame: Clay Performance Artist” by internationally recognized artist Teri Frame, September 26, 5:30 pm in room 202 B, Willard Hall on Kansas State University campus. In addition to her lecture, Ms. Frame will perform her piece “Early Humans” on September 27 at 5:30 pm in room 122, Willard Hall.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Teri Frame (b. 1971) received a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2005 and an MFA from The Pennsylvania State University in 2008. The human body has continuously been the center of her interest and this is made evident in her scholarly research and studio practice. Although she was trained as a ceramicist, art historian, and photographer, performance art and video have come into her work and she continues to move between these fields. Frame has exhibited, lectured, and taught throughout the United States, Canada, and South Korea. She has received numerous grants and awards, and was twice bestowed the Kenneth R. Ferguson merit scholarship. Her six-act performance and video series entitled Pre-human, Post Human, Inhuman, was recently exhibited at NCECA’s 2011 Project Space in Tampa, Florida. Frame is currently a resident artist at the Interlochen Arts Academy Boarding High school where she instructs Ceramics, Contemporary Practices, and New Genres.
This event is a part of the Kansas State University Department of Art Visiting Artists Series for the 2011-2012 Season.
Funded in part by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee
Image information:
Teri Frame, Video Still of Public Performance; Title: “Early Humans,” Life-sized Performance/Video 2011
MANHATTAN —Kansas State University Department of Art will present the exhibition “Working Together” of sculpture and drawings by artists Roger F. Blakley and Cecilia Allen from August 22–September 2 in the Mark A. Chapman Gallery, Willard Hall on Kansas State University campus.
Roger F. Blakley was born in Cleveland, Ohio and began his formal study of sculpture at the Cleveland Institute of Art. He has been involved in many national and international exhibitions, including many years at Pier Walk International Sculpture Exhibition and other outdoor venues. He is currently Professor Emeritus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. After decades of working at mid- to large scale, he has returned to a much smaller scale that allows him to explore both a greater number of ideas and an increasing variety of forms and textural contrasts.
Cecilia Allen was born in Tuscola, Illinois. She received her B.F.A. in sculpture and M.A. in art education at the University of Illinois. From there she went to Southern Illinois University at Carbondale to receive an M.F.A. in sculpture. At fairly regular intervals, she has destroyed most of the forms and unfinished work in her studio and has begun again. These events often accompany or initiate changes in attitude or circumstances. It is akin to the natural periodic burn-off characteristic of plains ecosystems. As in nature, it serves to renew her thinking and growth. The last major ‘burn-off’ consumed the entire third dimension. She has turned from sculpture to drawing as her primary form of expression.
This event is a part of the Kansas State University Department of Art Visiting Artists Series for the 2011-2012 Season.
The Mark A. Chapman Gallery on the first floor of Willard Hall opened in 2005. Cheryl Mellenthin and Mark Chapman funded a complete renovation of the former Willard Hall Gallery, increasing the exhibition space to over 1,400 square feet along with 400 square feet dedicated to exhibition preparation and kitchen facilities. The Department of Art hosts BFA and MFA student exhibitions in the gallery as part of graduation requirements each semester. The technology friendly gallery serves not only exhibition purposes, but also provides a location for an active Visiting Artist lecture program.
Funded in part by KSU SGA Fine Arts Fee
Image information:
Sculpture: Roger F. Blakley, cast bronze.
Collaborative drawing: Roger F. Blakley and Cecilia Allen, Exquisite Square 3, 2010, mixed media.
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