Fall 2012
September 7th -October 12th
Olin Gallery-Annie Waldrop- Leaves
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This exhibition by local artist Annie Waldrop will encompass mixed media collage, drawings, sculpture, installation, video and sound. Annie Waldrop's work seeks to re-imagine a feminine narrative by linking personal experience and cultural myths with elements found in nature. By twisting wire, incorporating old photographs with organic materials and fabricated objects she reveals a meditative process that pays homage to family ties across generations and creates an unbroken lineage suggested by intimate symbols of the life cycle, fertility, and rebirth. Ultimately, each piece created is a spare reliquary, infused with ritual, mystery and a sense of hope.
Smoyer Gallery - Acquisitions
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This exhibition of new acquisitions brings together recent gifts to the Roanoke College's Permanent Art Collection that augments the strengths of the College's diverse holdings. Works represent internationally and nationally known artists: Cory Archangel, James Griffioen, Debbie Grossman, Mark Menjivar, Emily Roysdon and Andrew Zuckerman
Annie Waldrop Lecture, Friday, September 7th, 5:30 p.m. Olin Recital Hall
Opening Reception Friday, September 7th 6-8 p.m. Smoyer Gallery
October 26th-December 2nd
Olin Gallery-Roanoke College's Studio Art Faculty
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This exhibition will showcase current work created by the Roanoke College's Studio Art Faculty: Scott Hardwig, Eliz. S.-K. Heil and Katherine Shortridge.
Hardwig teaches ceramics and sculpture at Roanoke College and received his master of fine arts degree from New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University and has been a member of the college's faculty since 1977. Heil joined the Roanoke College faculty in 1981 and teaches photography, computer graphics and printmaking, earning her master of fine arts degree in printmaking and drawing from Northern Illinois University. Shortridge received her master of fine arts degree from Indiana University and has taught painting and drawing at the college since 2003.
Smoyer Gallery-Gretchen Batcheller, Cole Hartson and Jeanne Stewart
This exhibition in conjunction with the Studio Art Faculty show will highlight work by Gretchen Batcheller, Cole Hartson and Jeanne Stewart. Batcheller taught painting and mixed media courses during her 2011-12 visiting professorship in the Roanoke College Fine Arts Department Hartson has been teaching Graphic Design at Roanoke College in the art department since 2003 and Stewart is the college's new professor of Arts and Crafts in Schools.
Opening Reception Friday, October 26th, 6-8 p.m. Smoyer Gallery
Spring 2013
January 25th -March 1st, 2013
Olin Hall Gallery - The Roanoke Valley Reef: A Satellite of the worldwide Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project created by Margaret and Christine Wertheim of the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles.
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| Christine Wertheim installing The People's Reef in Scottsdale AZ. Photo © The Institute For Figuring by Alyssa Gorelick |
Opening Reception was held Olin Galleries on January 25th, 2013 with a lecture by Paul Snelgrove.
We are very pleased and excited to be exhibiting a Satellite Hyperbolic Reef, The Roanoke Valley Reef, in January of 2013, and would like to request your help in its creation. This is a Nexus project which combines art, math and science in order to create crocheted structures that mirror natural coral reefs.
We invite you to participate in this project by creating individual pieces for the collaborative exhibition, which will be on display in Roanoke College's Olin Gallery. We will be creating two different reefs; one is a multicolored coral reef, containing pieces of any color and size. The second will be a bleached reef consisting of corals created with white and cream colored yarns and materials.
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The Institute For Figuring Hyperbolic Crochet |
The Toxic Reef, by the Institute For Figuring Photo © The Institute For Figuring (by Alyssa Gorelick ) |
Please email mlogan@roanoke.edu or coralreef@roanoke.edu if you are interested in more information or participating in this project.
Future announcements, events and programming regarding the Coral Reef will be submitted via email.
All Crochet Coral may be delivered between now and January 20th, 2013 to Olin Hall Gallery. Gallery Hours are 1-4pm everyday including weekends, and galleries are closed during school breaks and holidays.
The last week to deliver Crochet Coral will be January 14th -20th, 2013 to Olin Hall Galleries
Smoyer Gallery -Craig Voligny-Phenomenal Indicators
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Craig Voligny's exhibition Phenomenal Indicators will be showcased in Smoyer Gallery to coincide with the exhibition Roanoke Valley Reef. Voligny will be showing work from his 2010-2011 Fulbright Program exhibition Meridians and Parallels: Painted Abstractions of the Kenting Reef which was held at the National Museum of Biology and Aquarium in Taiwan in 2011. Along with his Fulbright work the artist will include new work which looks at decomposing trees, funguses and plants as natural climate models, sourcing the nearby National Forest. This exhibition will be a combination of work from completely different environments enveloped around a similar concept.
Craig Voligny Lecture, Friday, January 25th, 5:30 p.m., Olin Recital Hall
Opening Reception Friday, January 25th 6-8 p.m. Smoyer Gallery
March 15th -April 5th
Olin & Smoyer Galleries-2013 Biennial Juried Exhibition
*Biennial Juror - Biennial Application
Margot Norton (Curatorial Associate) New Museum New York, NY
Margot Norton, a native of New York City, is Curatorial Associate at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York. She has published and lectured on contemporary art and has also served as Curatorial Assistant on the 2010 Whitney Biennial and in the Drawings Department at the Whitney Museum of American Art. At the Whitney Museum, Norton curated and worked on numerous exhibitions including solo shows by Dianna Molzan and Charles LeDray. She holds a Master's Degree in Curatorial Studies from Columbia University and is currently working on future programming at the New Museum.
1 Travis Head Reading List Yeah!
2 Brett Lague Parting on Cordial Terms
3 Melissa Humphrey Iceblink
Honorable Mention- Deborah Dreyer DazzlingReflections
Honorable Mention- Jeffrey Rowland Reclaimed
Margot Norton Lecture, Friday, March 15th, 6:00 p.m., Olin Gallery
Opening Reception Friday, March 15th, 6-8 p.m., Smoyer Gallery
April 12th -May 4th
Olin & Smoyer Galleries - Art Majors Show
Opening Reception Friday, April 12th, 5:30-7:30 p.m. Smoyer Gallery
Closing Reception Friday May 3rd, 12-2 p.m. Smoyer Gallery