June/July Calendar Summer Hours · 10am-4pm Tues.-Sat., 1-4pm Sun. through Aug. 17; closed Mondays and holidays. The View From Here to There: The Aesthetics of Travel in the Rural Midwest · through June 22, Brainard Gallery & eGallery Drawings and Paintings from the Collection · through August 17, Main Galleries Registration Accepted for June Children's Classes · Classes begin June 9 Violin Recital: Mallory Johns · Tuesday, June 3, 7:30pm, Atrium Recital: The Students of Elaine Fine · Saturday, June 7, 2pm, Atrium Recital: The Students of Cindy Bettinger · Friday, June 20, 5pm, Atrium Closed for Independence Day · Friday, July 4th EIU Summer Art School Exposition & Reception · Saturday July 12, noon-2pm, Atrium EIU Music Department Summer Vocal Camp · July 13 - 18, Atrium & eGallery 2007-2008 Cultivating Creativity: Consolidated Communications Children's Art Exhibit · Edgar County Bank & Trust, Kansas: through June 19 · Marshall Public Library: June 21 - July 10 · Citizens National Bank, Oakland: July 12 - July 31 Sponsored by Consolidated Communications
Exhibitions The View From Here to There: The Aesthetics of Travel in the Rural Midwest · through June 22, Brainard and eGalleries This exhibition examines the landscape of mobility from c. 1820-1960, focusing on major corridors that pass through central Illinois, including the National Road, the IC Railroad, and I-57. The exhibition documents the evolution of the built environment in the 19th through mid-twentieth century utilizing folk art and academic art from the Tarble's collection as well as objects, photos, post cards, and maps from area public and private collections. The exhibition illustrates how various modes of transportation have not only physically changed the landscape, but also how they have changed how we use, see, and interpret the landscapes we pass through. These transportation corridors, whether old highways, canals, railroads, or interstates, can be seen as landscape features with distinctive histories and discernible aesthetic characteristics. After the Tarble exhibition closes photo and text panels from The View From Here to There will be used to creating a traveling exhibit to be shown at east-central Illinois venues. Exhibition co-curators are Dr. Nora Pat Small, EIU History Department and Tarble Curator of Education Kit Morice, working with the 2007-08 EIU Historical Administration Masters of Arts degree candidates and exhibit designer Rick V. Riccio, Instructor, EIU Historical Administration Program. The exhibition is funded in part by a grant from the Illinois Humanities Council, The National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Illinois General Assembly.
Paintings and Drawings from the Collection · May 31 - August 17, Main Galleries This exhibition presents artwork in a wide variety of styles and subjects in painting and drawing media selected from the Tarble Arts Center permanent collection. The works date from the 1880s to the present, with most created in last half of the 20th century. The exhibition focuses on works on paper, but some works on canvas and board are also included. Featured are all of the purchase awards from the Drawing/Watercolor: Illinois biennial competitive exhibition, dating from 1979 to 2007. The watercolors from the American Scene subcollection are on view, with works acquired through Associated American Artists and the WPA. And the drawings of historic architecture created to commemorate the Charleston Sesquicentennial are exhibited; each has a brief description of the building depicted. Also on view are atypical works by Paul T. Sargent (a desert scene and an ocean view), early and late works by Robert M. Root, traditional Chinese ink and watercolor paintings created by EIU visiting artists, and folk painting by Jerome McGahan (Jennie Cell's uncle and painting companion) and Mary Sophia Eveland. EIU emeritus Art faculty are represented with works by Walter Sorge, Lynn Trank, Carl Wilen, Carl Shull, and Ben Watkins. The EIU Art alumni represented are Ralph Wickeiser, Nancy Graham, and Rich Lo. The exhibition encompasses a wide range of drawing and painting media, including watercolor, oil, acrylic, pastel, graphite, charcoal, colored pencil, and mixed media. Included are landscapes, figure studies, still lifes, and abstractions. Styles range from a Romantic landscape to abstraction. Most pieces are a form of representational art, with select works showing the influence of various styles, including Impressionism, Cubism, Expressionism, Surrealism, Photo-Realism, and Neo-Expressionism.
Events Registration Accepted for June Children's Classes · Classes begin June 9 Registration is being accepted for children's classes (ages 4-14) offered in June. All fees cover instruction and supplies. For more information, phone the Tarble at 581-ARTS (-2787) or email tarble@eiu.edu. Registration will also be taken in the Tarble office. An Art Media Adventure (ages 4-5) Tuesdays & Thursdays, 11am-12pm, June 12-July 1 Instructor: Tricia Rizzo Fee: $20.00 for Tarble members, $24.00 for non-members Registration deadline: June 5 Using a wide variety of materials and techniques, in this class students will explore the elements of art through hands-on applications. Participants will also learn about different artists, styles, and cultural traditions, such as Kandinsky and Van Gogh and African and Japanese art forms. Exploring 2-D Art (ages 6-8) Mondays & Wednesdays, 10:30-11:45am, June 9-25 Instructor: Natalie Boyer Fee: $24.00 for Tarble members, $30.00 for non-members Registration deadline: June 5 Designed to educate younger children in the uses of several different two-dimensional media such as painting, printmaking and metal tooling. A variety of tools and techniques will be used to create works that illustrate the styles of the artist Mondrian as well as cultural traditions of Mexico, Japan, and the Navajo. Exploring 2-D Art (ages 6-8) Mondays & Wednesdays, 1:00-2:15am, June 9-25 Instructor: Natalie Boyer Fee: $24.00 for Tarble members, $30.00 for non-members Registration deadline: June 5 Designed to educate younger children in the uses of several different two-dimensional media such as painting, printmaking and metal tooling. A variety of tools and techniques will be used to create works that illustrate the styles of the artist Mondrian as well as cultural traditions of Mexico, Japan, and the Navajo. Musical Folk Art (ages 9-14) Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1:00-2:30pm, June 10-26 Instructor: Natalie Boyer Fee: $30.00 for Tarble members, $36.00 for non-members Registration deadline: June 5 This class is designed to educate children about musical instruments and folk art from cultures around the world. Using a variety of 2-D and 3-D media, children will create works of art inspired by traditions in Mexico, Australia and Africa. Examples of projects include an African drum and Australian Didgeridoos. August Adult Workshop Registration · Registration begins June 23 Registration will be taken beginning June 23 for Tarble adult workshops scheduled for August 4-23. Flyers will be mailed in mid- June. In the works are Opaque Painting taught by Natalie Boyer, Colored Pencil taught by David Dooley, and Glass Beads taught by Dave Hunter.
From the Curator Each year, the Tarble hosts the Children's Art Exhibition, which includes a special reception and awards program to recognize each of the student artists. This exhibition and reception program are the largest held at the Tarble, and it truly takes a team effort to receive, arrange, and hang over 300 works of children's art, along with the production of exhibition labels, catalogue, and certificates of recognition for each young artist. This year's exhibition was no exception, and because of a broken ankle, my role was mainly on the sidelines. A big thank you goes to Tarble staff members Michael Watts, Director, Office Manager Sally Bock, Functions Coordinator Dennis Malak, along with Natalie Boyer, graduate assistants Angie Drews and Erin Caldwell, and student assistants Alice Ellsworth, Bekki Merar, Ashley Rueff, Shane Rodems, and Nick Wood, for doing their jobs and mine, too. I would also like to thank Charleston art teachers Dorothy Bennett, Heather Bryan, Sheri Probst, Toni Satterfield, and Mandy White for helping to coordinate the awards reception. Thanks as well to the participating schools and their administrators who recognize the value of art programs led by certified art specialists. And, thank you to Consolidated Communications, Inc. for their continued support of the reception program and the Cultivating Creativity travelling exhibition of children's art. -- Kit Morice
From the Director Later this summer the newly expanded and remodeled Doudna Fine Arts Center will reopen on the EIU campus. This $60 million project has made possible a renovated Dvorak Concert Hall, the conversion of the old Main Stage into a music recital hall, plus the creation of a new black box experimental theatre, a new proscenium stage, and a new lecture hall as public performance and presentation venues. In addition to this expansion of public facilities a new endowment of $7.5 million has been created to support public arts programming at the Doudna Fine Arts Center, thanks to the generosity of Jan Tarble and the Tarble Family Foundation, joined by the Lumpkin Family Foundation and Consolidated Communications, and other donors. As I stated in last month's newsletter, this expansion of arts facilities and programming support, coupled with the Tarble Arts Center and its broad foundation of programs and support, presents a unique and unparalled opportunity for the exploration and celebration of the arts at Eastern and for east-central Illinois residents and visitors. When and where possible, programming will be expanded to incorporate the humanities, sciences, and other disciplines. At the request of Dean Johnson I am honored to report that I was recently named Assistant Dean for the College of Arts & Humanities. In this position I have assumed oversight and coordination of the public arts programming for the Doudna Fine Arts Center, while retaining these responsibilities for the Tarble Arts Center. To free up time for me to assume these new duties there will be some shifting of staffing within the college. But Tarble members and patrons need to know that Kit Morice remains as Curator of Education, and as always will continue her many and important activities to engage area public school students and teachers, special populations, and other constituents. And Sally Bock will remain as office manager, looking to the many and myriad details that make the Tarble's exhibitions and programs possible. In fact, it is due to the dedication and ability of these two individuals that I felt it possible for me to assume this shift in duties. I know that I speak for Dean Johnson when I say that our goal is to elevate the arts at Eastern by capitalizing on the opportunities that the reopening of the Dounda Fine Arts Center presents while sustaining and continuing to build upon the success of the Tarble Arts Center. This has been and will continue to be a group effort -- from President Perry and Provost Lord, who have identified the arts as a major focus for Eastern as an institution, to the volunteers who assist in the Tarble galleries and at Theatre Department productions, and all of the fine arts faculty and staff, patrons and donors, student assistants and interns, and many, many others. In my twenty-plus years at the Tarble, I have always said that a major goal is to create programs that are equal in quality to the quality of the Tarble's architecture. This will be even more the case with the Doudna Fine Arts Center, as you will be able to see for yourselves when the facility opens this fall. I am both energized and in awe of what lies ahead. I believe these feelings will be shared by all who become involved in this grand enterprise, and I invite your involvement. -- Michael Watts Upcoming for August Classes & Workshops for Adults · Aug. 4-23 Brian Poulter: itty-bitty photo blog project · Aug. 16 - Sept. 28/eGallery James Oliver: Rural Happenings · Aug. 23 - Oct. 12/Main Galleries Beverly Fishman: Silkscreens on Vinyl · Aug. 23 - Oct. 12/Main Galleries |
Open Hours:
10am - 5pm Tues. - Fri., 10am - 4pm Sat., 1pm-4pm Sun.; closed Mondays and holidays
Location:
South 9th Street at Cleveland Ave., Eastern Illinois University campus, Charleston
For Information:
mwatts@eiu.edu (email)
217.581.2787 (phone)
217.581.7138 (fax)
http://www.eiu.edu/~tarble (website)
The Tarble Arts Center, a division of the College of Arts & Humanities, is accredited by
the American Association of Museums. The Tarble Arts Center is funded in part by Tarble Arts
Center membership contributions, the Tarble Arts Center Endowment/EIU Foundation, the
Illinois Arts Council, a state agency, and other sponsors as listed.
Tarble Arts Center Advisory Board Officers:
Thomas LeVeck, President
Keith Perry, Vice President
Bonnie Woodyard, Secretary
Tarble Arts Center Staff:
Michael Watts, Director Kit Morice, Curator of Education
Sally Bock, Secretary Dennis Malak, Functions Coordinator
James K. Johnson, Dean, College of Arts & Humanities
For more information call (217) 581-2787 or e-mail tarble@eiu.edu |