Barbara Tannenbaum: Photography
Barbara Tannenbaum, Curator of Photography and Chair, Department of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs at the Cleveland Museum of Art presents “$40,000 Per Square Inch: Has Success Spoiled Photography?”
Brad Vetter is a Louisville, Kentucky-based graphic designer and letterpress printer who has worked at the legendary Hatch Show Print and whose tools range from antique presses to laser engravers.
A finalist for the 2018 Neddy Award in Painting, David Hytone’s images are constructed from hundreds of individual pieces of hand-painted paper. In his talk, Hytone will elucidate the complex studio process that informs the thematic thrust of his work.
Reinhold Engberding: Mixed-Media/Sculpture/Installation
“Reinhold Engberding is not a traditional sculptor but he makes coherent spatial artworks with a meaning that transcends the mere situation." (Arie Hartog, Bremen 2011) The German sculptor and object maker crochets black cotton and works with second-hand clothes to address issues of identity and intimacy, privacy, longing, and desire.
Curtis Hidemasa Arima is a metalsmith who is drawn to the transformative nature of materials and how they hold memory, emotion, and history.
Lauren Fensterstock: Impermanent Conditions
Lauren Fensterstock creates elaborate sculptures and installations in media traditionally associated with women exploring the evolving history of our relationship to nature through the merging of an environmental and metaphysical landscape.
Roos van Haaften: Shadow Laboratory
Roos van Haaften presents “Shadow Laboratory," a talk about the light works she will be making during her Bloomington residency in response to IU's Astronomy Glass Photographic Plate Collection, which includes glass negatives of stars, galaxies, and black holes.
Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan: Touch Praxis
Please note: the artists have cancelled their visit and talk.
Artists Nina Sarnelle and Selwa Sweidan will introduce their collaborative work “ Touch Praxis, ” a collaborative research project exploring touch as a time-based medium and a collective system for embodied learning.
Please note: the artist has cancelled her visit and talk.
Theresa Ganz makes landscapes and interiors in the form of collage, video, and installation. Her work blends a 19th-century Romantic vision of the individual in nature with a 21 st - century lived experience mediated by screens.
Endi Poskovic: Dream and the Paradox of Image
In his print series “Dream,” Endi Poskovic explores the boundaries of print media via the expanded process of visualization, art making, and storytelling.
Dan Vlček + Tom Kotik are trans-disciplinary artistic collaborators whose joint sound installations are complex works of art in which individual contributions are blurred.
In her whimsical, rustic, and functional pottery, Sunshine Cobb seeks to evoke both nostalgia for home and the sense of wanderlust that has informed her own life and visual sensibilities. Author of the 2018 book “Mastering Hand Building,” the Helena, Montana-based artist is an online business model innovator and a leading advocate for functional art in modern living.