Harold Boyd: Works on Paper and Other Drawings

Hokusai Boy (detail) by Harold Boyd, 1999, mixed media

Described as “a master of line and psychological nuance” Harold Boyd’s career spans more than 35 years. His paintings, drawings, prints and sculpture have been exhibited at the Art Institute of Chicago, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Nelson-Adkins Museum of Art (Kansas City), San Francisco Museum of Art, Ecole des Beaux Arts (Montpelier, France), and many other venues.

Boyd will also serve as the juror for the Tarble Arts Center’s 18th Biennial Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois Exhibition.

Artist’s Lecture: Monday, Nov. 1, 7 pm

William Hubschmitt: A Retrospective Exhibition

Self Portrait by William Hubschmitt, 2005, digital print with mixed media

Curated by Robert Petersen this exhibition traces the development of the digital artwork created by Bill Hubschmitt over more than 30 years; both are members of the EIU Art Department. Making up the exhibition are abstracts, landscapes, and portraits that reflect the artist’s years in Charleston, his travels, and his background as a Renaissance-Baroque art scholar.

This program is co-sponsored with the EIU Art Department.

Exhibition Reception & Curator’s Remarks: Saturday, Aug. 28, 7 - 9 pm, Atrium

Stephen Cartwright: Topographies

Mesh #1 (detail) by Stephen Cartwright, 2010, acrylic and hardware

Since 1999 Stephen Cartwright has recorded his exact latitude, longitude and elevation every hour of every day – including journeys through North America, Europe and Asia, totaling more than 20,000 miles. Cartwright uses digital and traditional fabrication techniques to translate his collected data into his sculptural projects, including kinetic works in a variety media and digital imagery. His recent work investigates the use and alteration of the landscape.

This exhibition will serve as the basis of the Junior/Senior High Art Enrichment program for area schools, Oct. 12 - Nov. 4, underwritten by First Mid-Illinois Bank & Trust, and for a Teachers’ In-Service workshop presented in cooperation with the Regional Superintendent of Schools, Oct. 8.

This is a New and Emerging Artist Series program, co-sponsored with the EIU Doudna Fine Arts Center and Art Department.

Artist’s Lecture: Wednesday, Oct. 6, 7 pm, Atrium

Nam Clark Memorial Exhibition

Punch Bag Rabbit Repair by Nam Clark, 2007, oil on canvas

This exhibition celebrates the work and all too brief life of Nam Clark. Clark received both BA and MA degrees at Eastern Illinois University prior to receiving an MFA from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign in 2008 and starting his career as a college art instructor.

Clark wrote that the characters in his politically charged paintings “stage themselves, performing in exaggerated spectacles which personify the absurdity of their existence ... costumes attach like a second skin ... disconnecting them from the consequences of their actions, enabling them to continue an existence devoid of conscience in a world of twisted humor.”

Clark died unexpectedly earlier this year. This exhibition is curated by Clark’s friend and mentor Chris Kahler of the EIU Art Department.

This program is co-sponsored with the EIU Art Department.

Fall Coles County Arts Council Chamber Music Recital

An afternoon of chamber music presented by Elaine Fine, violin, and John David Moore, piano.

Charleston Community Theatre Fall Production

Information about the 2010-2011Charleston Community Theatre season will be announced soon; co-sponsored by the Tarble Arts Center. Admission fee required; contact the Tarble for reservations.

Embarras Valley Film Festival Animation Workshop

Middle school-age participants are invited to enroll in this free stop-motion animation film workshop. Presented as part of the 2010 Embarras Valley Film Festival the films will be screened on Nov. 13. To see the films created at last year’s workshop click here.

Registration information will be announced.

Embarras Valley Film Festival Symposium: Oscar Micheaux

This year’s festival explores silent film and Illinois, focusing on Oscar Micheaux. The first African-American to produce a feature-length film (The Homesteader, 1919) and a sound feature-length film (The Exile, 1931), Micheaux was born in 1884 in Metropolis, IL.

Co-sponsored by EIU's College of Arts & Humanities and the Coles County Arts Council, the EVFF is an annual event honoring a person or theme relevant to east-central Illinois.

The 2010 festival will run Nov. 11-13 at various venues.

2010 Literature Conference Lecture: Concord, Massachusetts in the Era of Transcendentalism by Christopher Hanlon

Open to the public, this lecture is part of the annual Literary Conference for Teachers sponsored by the EIU English Department.

The conference focuses on understanding, discussing, and appreciating major authors and texts. This year’s theme is “Emerson, Thoreau, and the Age of American Transcendentalism.”

For conference information contact the EIU Conference office at 217-581-5116 or jhickenbottom@eiu.edu. The lecture is co-sponsored by the Tarble Arts Center.

A reception will follow the lecture.

Suzanne Berkes Solo Exhibition: Ceramic Sculpture

Metal Work: In Progress by Suzanne Berkes, ceramics, 2007;
commission, Danville Metal Corporate Office, Danville, IL

States Berkes, “What primarily draws me to using ceramic materials ... is the physicality and variety of the medium and process ... [and] a sense of continuity with people who used similar materials a millennium ago — a sense of permanence.”

She holds a Master’s in Art Education with a concentration in ceramics from the University of Illinois-Urbana/Champaign. Berkes is active in the Illinois Arts Council’s Arts-In-Education program and does commissions, including a large-scale brick sculpture for the lawn of the Danville (Illinois) Metal corporate office.

Suzanne Berkes: Artist-in-the-Schools Residency

Berkes will work with the art students and teachers at four area schools and at the Tarble with a core group including Charleston Middle School students. This program is funded by the participating schools, Tarble membership funds and by a grant from the Illinois Arts Council, a state agency.

Closing Reception: Dec. 16, 3:30 - 5:30 pm, Atrium

Thriller: An Installation by Adam Parker Smith

Adam Parker Smith, Thriller (installation mock-up), 2009, digital prints with mixed media

Drawing on the novel Moby Dick and the movie Jaws, this installation by New York artist Adam Parker Smith plays on the tension of the real verses the imagined, a tension that "provides the transformative self-realizations which attack the viewer just like a movie monster," states Smith; "anxiety is engineered as much in ourselves as in the ocean of culture."

This is a New and Emerging Artist Series program, co-sponsored with the EIU Doudna Fine Arts Center and Art Department.

Holiday Art Sale

Original art and fine crafts by area artists are available for purchase for holiday gift giving.

Sponsored by the EIU Art Department, proceeds go in support of art student scholarships. Additional items are available in the Tarble Gift Shop with proceeds going in support of Tarble programs.

18th Biennial Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois

This competitive exhibition is open to Illinois artists who work on paper in drawing materials or water-based painting media. The juror is noted Illinois artist Harold Boyd, a member of the Watercolor USA Honor Society. He will select the art for the exhibition, and designate the purchase and merit awards totalling more than $4,000.

Entries accepted Oct. 16 - 28. Visit the 18th Biennial Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois page for more information and to download a prospectus.

Biennial Awards Reception: Dec. 12, 2 - 4 pm

2010-2011 Cultivating Creativity: Consolidated Communications Children’s Art Exhibit

Disappearing Cake by Andrea Delano, pastel,
Moulton Middle School, 4th grade (2009-2010)

Dates and venues to be announced

This traveling exhibit showcases art by students representing 40 east-central Illinois school art programs.

Co-sponsored with generous support from Consolidated Communications.

Tarble Arts Center Outdoor Sculpture Court, south Tarble grounds

This permanent exhibition features work by past and present EIU Art Department faculty sculptors – Cary Knoop, James K. Johnson, and Jeffrey Boshart – plus noted Illinois artist Michael Dunbar and EIU Art alumnus Brett Evangelista.

Also on Eastern’s grounds is outdoor sculpture by nationally/internationally recognized Illinois artists Ruth Duckworth (north of the Doudna Fine Arts Center), Ed McCollough (7th Street opposite Buzzard Hall), and Dan Nardi (between Lumpkin and Coleman Halls), all created through the State of Illinois’ Art in Architecture program.

Summer Sculpture Residency Exhibition

7th Street, between the Tarble and Doudna Fine Arts Centers

For 2010-2011, this revolving outdoor sculpture program features work by current or recently graduated Midwestern Studio Art masters students Kathryn Armstrong, Ben Clore, Michael Collins, Nathan Hatch, Matt Moyer, Erik Peterson, Matthew Searle, Clint R. Shaw, and Melissa Van Sandt, with guest artist/emeritus EIU Art faculty member James K. Johnson.

The Summer Sculpture Residency project is coordinated by Jeffrey Boshart of the EIU Art Department.

This is a New and Emerging Artist Series program, co-sponsored with the EIU Doudna Fine Arts Center and Art Department.