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- Greensboro, NC, 27402
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- 336-334-5770
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Summer 2009 ARTicles Newsletter
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Spring 2009 ARTicles Newsletter
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Winter 2008-09 ARTicles Newsletter
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Weatherspoon Art Museum View an electronic version of our NEW Winter "ARTicles" newsletter:
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Weatherspoon Art Museum UNCG Faculty Biennial, Remastering the Masters: The Classical Tradition, New Art/New Audiences "Lite", American Art: 1960-Present - Five Decades of Innovation, Michael Ashkin: Falk Visiting Artist, Odd Bodies: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Noon @ the 'Spoon, Concert: Triad Chamber Music Society, New Lecture... Series - UNCG Department of Art Faculty Lecture Series
Weatherspoon Art Museum September 2009 article about Dike Blair in "Art in America"....
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Dike Blair is having a good year: in April he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in the visual arts, and this month a major exhibition of his work, “Now and Again,” opens at the Weatherspoon Art Museum, in Greensboro, N.C.
Weatherspoon Art Museum Upon request, we are posting some images of the installation of Dike Blair: Now and Again, which is on view in the Weatherspoon Art Museum’s 2nd floor, McDowell Gallery through December 6, 2009. Fifty of Blair’s photo-realist gouaches are installed in a long corridor that divides the McDowell gallery in half, and fourt...een sculptures are installed on either side of the corridor gallery so that one side of the exhibition space appears to mirror the other. A 96-page catalogue for the exhibition is available thorugh the Museum Shop and D.A.P. You can find more information about Blair’s work at http://www.thing.net/~lilyvac/.
17 new photos
Weatherspoon Art Museum Dike Blair: Now and Again - Falk Visiting Artist, American Art I, 1900-1960: Shifting Directions, UNCG Faculty Biennial, Remastering the Masters: The Classical Tradition, Teacher Workshops with painter Mary Ann Zotto, 15th Will Read for Food + Art, Noon @ the 'Spoon - Dike Blair: Now and Again, Sustainability Film: Dirt!, New Art/New Audiences "Lite"
Length:3:00
Weatherspoon Art Museum
This new “lite” version of our popular New Art/New Audiences program introduces novice art-lovers to the Weatherspoon and contemporary art. Members, guests and friends are welcome to attend this one-night only event that includes a tour of a current Weatherspoon exhibition and strategies for looking at contemporary art.... Workshops are led by Ann Grimaldi, Curator of Education.
New Art/New Audiences is free thanks to the support of the Lincoln Financial Foundation. Seating is limited. To register, call (336) 334-5770 or email weatherspoon@uncg.edu.
Time:6:30PM Thursday, December 10th
Location:Weatherspoon Art Museum
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The Weatherspoon Art Museum is currently accepting submissions for its biennial exhibition, "Art on Paper 2010."
View the prospectus at this link...
weatherspoon.uncg.edu
Weatherspoon Art Museum Dike Blair: Now and Again - Falk Visiting Artist, American Art I, 1900-1960: Shifting Directions, UNCG Faculty Biennial, Remastering the Masters: The Classical Tradition, 6th Annual New Music Festival, Art Attack! with Lee Sandstead, Teacher Workshops, Noon @ the 'Spoon - American Art I, 1900-1960: Shifting Directions,... Film: Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century - Premiere, Weatherspoon Art Museum Community Day, Sustainability Film: Addicted to Plastic, New Art/New Audiences "Lite"
Length:3:26
Weatherspoon Art Museum Our Subject Is You, Matisse and His Models: Two Themes, American Art 1900-1960: Shifting Directions, Dike Blair: Now and Again - Falk Visiting Artist, Artist's Gallery Talk: Dike Blair, Artist's Lecture: Dike Blair, Noon @ the 'Spoon - Matisse and His Models: Two Themes, Teachers Workshops, Greensboro Museum Day + Fall... Fest, Sustainability Film: Earth Days, Art Attack! with Lee Sandstead
Weatherspoon Art Museum Weatherspoon Art Museum 2009 Fall ARTicles newsletter....reposted
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Weatherspoon Art Museum Eileen Neff, Matisse and His Models: Two Themes, Our Subject Is You, Artist's Talk: Sherri Lynn Wood, Group Stitching Mantra: A Trans-Craft Experience with Sherri Lynn Wood, Artist's Talk: Steve Lambert, Co-Curators' Gallery Talk: Xandra Eden and Lee Walton, American Art 1900-1960: Shifting Directions
Length:2:58
Weatherspoon Art Museum Steve Lambert talks about bridging the divide between museum visitors and his own practice. Lambert's, "I Will Talk With Anyone About Anything", 2006/2009 is currently featured in "Our Subject is You".
Time:4:00PM Thursday, August 27th
Location:Weatherspoon Art Museum
Weatherspoon Art Museum
Join artist Sherri Lynn Wood on an imaginative, meditative, communal journey that merges the Eastern spiritual traditions of mudras, mandalas and mantras, and systems-centered practice with the simple act of stitching.
2-4 pm
Dillard Room. $10 members/ $20 non-members. Materials included.
Register by e-mail: t_dowell@unc...g.edu, phone: (336) 256-1449
Stitching Mudra
In yogic practice, mudras are a non-verbal mode of communication and self-expression, consisting of hand gestures and finger-postures. They are ritual hand postures used to evoke in the mind, ideas symbolizing divine powers or the deities themselves. The mudra is an external expression of inner resolve, suggesting that such nonverbal communications are more powerful than the spoken word.
The Gayan mudra is considered to be the gesture for acquiring knowledge. This mudra is considered to bestow intelligence and wisdom, purify the mind, cure intoxication and give a feeling of joy.
The Chin mudra, an inverted Gyan mudra with fingers pointing down is the gesture of understanding and meditation.
When holding a needle in the correct posture for stitching, the Gayan and Chin mudras flow and alternate as the needle moves in and out, and the hand moves down and up. Within the meditative flow of stitching, we acquire knowledge and then integrate that knowledge as understanding as each stitch is taken and made.
Stitching Mandala
Literally translated as "essence" + "having" or "containing", as "circle-circumference" or "completion" a mandala represents a microcosm of the Universe from the human perspective. In yogic and Buddhist practice mandalas may be employed for focusing attention, as a spiritual teaching tool, for establishing a sacred space, and as an aid to meditation.
Sit facing each other in a circle, with a piece of linen stretched in a round embroidery hoop. Stitch within the circle of your hoop creating a centering mandala. Principles of centering will be introduced and explored. We will stitch from our centers and form the container for our group mantra.
Stitching Mantra
The Sanskrit word mantra consists of the root manas, “to think” or “mind” and the suffix -tra meaning, “tool”, hence a literal translation would be “instrument of thought” or “mind tool.” In eastern spiritual traditions a mantra is a sacred word, chant or sound that is repeated during mediation to facilitate the transformation of consciousness.
Each time your needle pierces the membrane of the material, voice one word of the mantra you have each chosen to explore. Keep to the rhythm of your stitching as you manifest your mantra one stitch at a time. Needle in “LIFE” - needle out “IS” - needle in “GOOD” - needle out “LIFE”…
Listen to your “personal” voice and rhythm as well your “member” voice as it mingles and participates with the voices around you. As the group mantra emerges, you may or may not have the choice to change and modulate your personal mantra, rhythm, volume, and tone of voice. Over the course of the meditation, listen to the rhythm of attention. Listen FOR the rhythm of attention.
Timeline: 1 hour
The Group Stitching Mantra will be preceded by a 15-minute group instruction in which concepts of centering, movement, and voice will be introduced along with the concepts of mudra, mantra, and mandala. The Group Stitching Mantra will last 30 minutes and will be audio recorded. The event will conclude with a 10-minute period for sub-grouping to explore the experience, and a 5-minute period for learnings. Participants will have the choice to keep their stitching or to donate it to become part of a group prayer flag and artifact of the performance.
Objectives
1. Create a systems-centered group as a container for experiencing the rhythm of attention, and exploring the relationship between repetition, boredom and the creative impulse.
2. Introduce the principles of centering, containing and crossing the boundaries from interior to exterior as tools for nurturing creativity and manifesting presence.
3. Provide an imaginative model for integrating differences through a heightened awareness of person and member roles of participation.
4. Facilitate a meditative and rejuvenating experience for self-discovery.
This program is sponsored, in part, by the Hillsdale Fund
Time:2:00PM Saturday, August 22nd
Location:Weatherspoon Art Museum
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Sherri Lynn Wood’s “Mantra Trailer”, which she describes as, “a homeopathic remedy for the mass media slogans of the day,” is featured in the exhibition Our Subject Is You. In addition to this, her most recent work, the artist has been involved for many years in making participatory art works rooted in healing and spir...itual practice.
Some of Wood’s recent projects include: Passage Quilts, working with the bereaved to make improvisational quilts from the clothing of the deceased; Prayer Banner: REPENT / MERCY / …, a communal mourning project concerning the war in Iraq; The Piñata Anchor of Hope, a geo-psychic, temporary public art project for the City of Durham during a time of upheaval and rapid development; and 1200 Hats, a collaboration with residents of the North Carolina Correctional Institution for Women.
With an MFA in sculpture from Bard College, and a Masters of Theological Studies from Emory University, Sherri Lynn Wood is an interdisciplinary artist, activist, and healer, based in Durham, NC and San Francisco, CA. She combines her knowledge of craft, theology, sculpture, and systems centered theory to invent and facilitate aesthetic vehicles of intervention for healing and social exchange.
Time:5:30PM Thursday, August 20th
Location:Weatherspoon Art Museum
