Katedra Grafiki Warsztatowej serdecznie zaprasza na wykłady, które poprowadzą profesorowie ze School of Art at Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, US.
Wykłady odbędą się w czwartek, 8 maja br. o godz. 10.00 w sali audytoryjnej 410, ul. Traugutta 19/21. Thomas Riesing, David Johnson i Sarojini Jha Johnson opowiedzą o własnej twórczości, jak również o kondycji współczesnej grafiki artystycznej w Stanach Zjednoczonych oraz renesansie klasycznych metod drukarskich. Gościnne wykłady są częścią zajęć studentów studiów niestacjonarnych PRINTMAKING IN ENGLISH prowadzonych na Wydziale Grafiki i Sztuki Mediów.
David Johnson was born in Fort Dodge, Iowa. He attended public school and graduated with a BFA from the University of Iowa. He walked beans, detasseled corn, baled hay, built cement grain elevators, worked in the State Liquor Store, K-Mart , Sears Catalog Warehouse in Minneapolis, put together the Ferris Wheel for the carnival, picked apples in Washington state, painted houses, fell off the Christmas tree truck, attended Cleveland Institute of Art, received his MFA from Miami University, and taught at Anderson College as a sabbatical replacement for one year. He currently teaches Drawing and Printmaking at Ball State University where he has been since 1988. He has shown prints, drawings and books in approximately 400 exhibitions and has received many awards. His work is in the collections of several University Museums and Libraries.
www.davidbjohnsonprints.com
Sarojini Jha Johnson has taught printmaking and foundations at Ball State University since 1985. She grew up in Ohio and earned undergraduate degrees in French and drawing from the University of Cincinnati. She received an MFA in printmaking from Miami University where she studied with Professor Robert Wolfe and began working with animal and plant forms in her prints. Her main medium is color intaglio printmaking, a medium that allows for great creativity and invention in terms of surface and color. Sarojini's work places natural forms in a fictional context and is meant to communicate on a human level without previous knowledge of culture or allusions. She has also explored her memories and impressions of India, her country of origin. Animal images such as fish and birds still emerge in this work. Sarojini also makes artist's books that present issues such as the effects of climate change on flora and fauna. Artist's books have allowed this focus on a single theme and have expanded her use of mixed media.
www.sarojinijhajohnson.com
Thomas Riesing was appointed Director of the School of Art at Ball State University on July 1, 2010. He previously taught painting and drawing at the University of Tennessee from 1973 to 2010. He was a visiting professor at the University of Texas in San Antonio in 1992; the National Academy of Fine Arts in Bratislava, Slovakia in 1993; Beihang University in Beijing, China in 2009; and the National Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw,Poland in 2013. Since 1995 he has been a visiting artist/lecturer at eighteen different Universities and Academies in China including the Central Academy of Art in Beijing, Sichuan University in Chengdu, Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts in Chongqing, Guangxi Normal University in Guilin, and Fujian Normal University in Fuzhou. He was awarded the position of Guest Professor 2000-05 at Sichuan University and was subsequently awarded a Permanent Guest Professorship in 2006. He has been the recipient of numerous Professional Development Awards and an NEH Endowment grant from the University of Tennessee to facilitate his work in China. He was also the recipient of the Ellen McClung Berry Professorship for Art at the University of Tennessee from 1999-02 and again in 2002-05. He received a Lily Postdoctoral Teaching Fellowship in 1978. Riesing has exhibited his work extensively in the USA and abroad. He was one of three western artists invited to participate in the 1998 Asia-Pacific Contemporary Art Exhibition in Fuzhou, China. In February of 2008 he had a two-person exhibition, Under the Peaceful Sky, at the Blue Dreamland Gallery in Chengdu, China, and in June of 2009 he had a two-person exhibition, Shared Spaces, at the Beihang University Gallery in Beijing, China. He will have a solo exhibition at the National Academy of Fine Arts in Wroclaw, Poland. His work is in many public, corporate, and private collections including Coca-Cola in Atlanta, GA; Tennessee Valley Authority in Knoxville and Chattanooga, TN; Opryland, Inc. in Nashville, TN; Northern Telecom Corp. in Nashville, TN; Zhongyin International Industrial Corp. in Fuzhou, China; Miami University and Miami Fine Arts Gallery in Oxford, OH; Davidson College Art Gallery in Davidson, NC; Sichuan University in Chengdu, China; and the Knoxville Museum of Art in Knoxville, TN. His curatorial work includes eight exhibitions featuring Chinese artists. Two of which are Writing the Real, 2006, an exhibition of drawings from the Central Academy of Fine Art; and Tradition and Transnationalism: Three Chinese Artists, He Gong, Gu Wenda, and Chen Danqing, 2001. He attended the University of Nebraska from 1966-73 where he received his BFA and MFA degrees. He was the recipient of the 2009 Outstanding Alumnus Achievement Award from the Lied College of Fine and Performing Arts at the University of Nebraska.
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informacja: Zuzanna Dyrda, zamieścił: Leszek Sołtys
