Visting Artist

Gregory Green

Thursday, January 17th at 5:15 PM, FAB 103.

Since the mid-1980’s Gregory Green has created artworks and performances exploring the evolution of empowerment, which consider the use of violence, alternatives to violence and the accessibility to information and technology as vehicles for social or political change. Many of Green’s artistic investigations have focused on terrorism and the possibilities for sabotage of the physical infrastructure, and the ease in which individuals, armed with readily available information, can endanger the status quo.

Green’s work is included in major public and private collections, including among others the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Tate Gallery, London, the Saatchi Gallery, London, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York and MAMCO, Geneva; and his work is represented by numerous commercial Galleries in Europe and the United States. Green had been a working Artist in New York City for the past 17 years until joining the faculty at USF in the fall of 2006 to begin a career in teaching. Gregory attended undergraduate school at The Art Academy of Cincinnati (1981) and graduate school at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1984).

This lecture is sponsored by the School of Art and Art History Visiting Artists and Scholars Committee.

Art Basel 2007

This past December, five of our graduate students attended Art Basel, Miami Beach. Over the course of five days our grads walked miles, ate delicious Cuban cuisine, and attended many of the 20+ satellite fairs showcased in Miami! NADA, Pulse, and Scope, were some of our favorite art fairs . Here is a taste of what our students remembered from the trip:

Wynwood District.

New Art Dealers Alliance, Art Basel Maimi Beach.

Margulies Collection, Miami Beach.

The favorite by far was the Rubell Family Collection. The group was invited to a special breakfast reception. For their guests, Rubell had three enormous tables of food. Each surreal and piled with with eggs, bacon, and jam. Guest wandered the current collection, which featured Euro-Centric and works by Hernan Bas.

Euro-Centric and Hernan Bas, Rubell Family Collection.

H.O.T. Clay presents

H.O.T. Clay is a student run organization that helps fund student trips to NCECA, National Conference on Education for the Ceramic Arts and supports our visiting artist program which brings in internationally and nationally renowned ceramic artists. These workshops and lecture are now open to the public. This month we present visiting artist...

Andrew Martin

January 17 and 18, 2008

Andrew Martin earned his M.F.A. from Alfred University in 1984, has had two residencies at the Archie Bray Foundation and has been a resident in the Arts-Industry Program at the Kohler Company. He has been awarded two Fellowship Grants from the N.E.A. and is the author of The Essential Guide to Mold-Making and Slip Casting. He is a master craftsman with an expertise in creating complex plaster molds that reveal exquisitely designed vessel forms in clay. His vibrant color palette and surface designs are equally engaging - he has seminal intuitions about form, glaze color, decoration, beauty, and use.

Demonstration 9 a.m.-noon, 1-4 p.m. Thursday, FAC Room B14

Slide-lecture: 7:30 pm, Thurs, FAB 105

Demonstration 9am - noon, Friday, FAC Room B14

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