FALL 2019
PROGRAMS & Events
ART SPEAKS!
Focus Series on the Vitality & Importance of Learning Through Contemporary Art
Starting this fall, the Tarble will be re-envisioning the idea of the artist’s lecture by presenting a new series of gallery-based discussions that highlight and reveal the innovative practices of artists by re-focusing art as a living thing and artists as agents of choice. These artist-driven moments will move beyond the traditional talk and work to create an interactive and dynamic experience between the artist and participants, while investigating the purpose, intentions and narratives that drive these innovative creators and their creative practices.
FEDERICO SOLMI
Tuesday, September 17, 5-7pm
Tarble Atrium & Main Gallery
RACHEL MONOSOV
Thursday, October 24, 5-7pm
Tarble Atrium & Main Gallery
ARAM HAN SIFUENTES
Thursday, October 24, 5-7pm
Tarble Atrium & Brainard Gallery
NICOLÁS GUAGNINI
Thursday, December 5, 5-7pm
Tarble Atrium & eGallery
FREE & Open to the Public
GALLERY 1104 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
ANNE VIEUX
Tuseday-Saturday, September 24-28, 2019
In Conversation artist Anne Vieux will use Gallery 1104 as a pop-up working studio during her residency week during Tarble open hours. During the residency, she will co-facilitate three workshops with high-school-aged students and have her studio open for visitors on Saturday during EIU’s Family Weekend.
Vieux’s artwork combines digital processes with painting processes and explores the effects of light, scale, and materiality through abstraction. Her process involves scanning holographic paper then pushing the limits of the image data through zooming, warping, and repetition. Vieux is an alum of EIU’s MA in Studio Art program.
Questions, call 217-581-ARTS (2787) or email tarble@eiu.edu
ARTISTS-IN-DIALOGUE: MENTOR/MENTEE
PANEL DISCUSSION
Chris Kahler, DialumenG1, 2018, Acrylic on panel © Chris Kahler and Bruno David Gallery
Thursday, September 26, 5-6pm
Tarble Atrium
In Conversation artists Morgan Calabrese, Chris Kahler, Erin Rice, and Anne Vieux will discuss their works in the current exhibition, their artistic practices beyond these works, and their relationships as makers.
FREE & Open to the Public
UGLY ART UN-PORTRAIT PARTY
Thursday, September 5, 6-8pm
Tarble Classroom & Galleries
Sometimes art isn’t beautiful. Sometimes art tackles some pretty ugly topics. Talking about art can be messy, making art can be messy. We will have a pointed and engaging talk about some of the works on view and also create on an un-portrait project. Wine and refreshments will accompany the evening’s events.
$16 for Members & Students
$20 for Non-Members
Must be 21+ to attend
Registration deadline: August 30, 2019
CAMILLE COMPO MEMORIAL WOMEN’S STUDIES ENDOWED SPEAKER SERIES DR. AMBER JOHNSON AND THE JUSTICE FLEET
Join us as the EIU Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program; Department of History and the Tarble Arts Center hosts Dr. Amber Johnson and their Justice Fleet project. Johnson will lead a hands-on workshop for EIU students earlier in the day and present a lecture for both EIU and Charleston-Mattoon Communities in the evening. As a way of creating continued dialogue found in this semester’s exhibitions the workshop and lecture led by Dr. Johnson will help facilitate actionable responses while critiquing assumed narratives of power.
Dr. Amber Johnson is currently an Assistant Professor of Communications at St. Louis University and the founder/ creator of the Justice Fleet. The Justice Fleet is a is a mobile network of experiences that foster community healing through art, play, and dialogue. Johnson’s research and work focuses on identity negotiation, social justice and arts activism. Through the Justice Fleet, they have created mobile exhibits and social practice art projects that help re-frame and address issues bound up in implicit and explicit bias and practices of inequity by using empathy as a place of action to promote empowerment and healing.
This series is endowed by the estate of Camille Compo to honor her passion for learning, the arts, and her long-time commitment to supporting the EIU Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program.
PARTICIPATORY EXHIBIT WITH THE JUSTICE FLEET
Tuesday, September 10 1-4pm
Doudna Concourse
FREE & Open to EIU Students & community members
HANDS-ON WORKSHOP
Tuesday, September 10 4-5pm
Tarble Classroom
FREE & Open to EIU students
KEYNOTE PRESENTATION RADICAL FORGIVENESS AND RADICAL IMAGINATION
Tuesday, September 10, 7pm
In partnership with the EIU History Department
Doudna Theater
FREE & Open to EIU Students & community members
ABOUT CAMILLE COMPO
Camille Compo was a long-time supporter of Women's Studies at EIU. She began her work life at EIU in the Office of Budget and Planning and retired in 2001 as the Administrative Assistant to the Vice President of External Relations. She was an early member of the Women's Action Coalition and was involved with the first Women's History and Awareness month. The visionary work of the Women's Studies Program at EIU inspired Camille greatly. The Women's Studies Program honored Camille Compo for her many contributions to the program in 1984 as their Woman of Achievement.
Camille loved theology, the arts, poetry, and fresh mint in her tea. She was often seen at Tarble and Doudna events. She was a great supporter of EIU; and after retiring, volunteered at the Neal Welcome center until declining health led her to cut down on her activities and eventually move to an assisted living community in Mattoon. Even after she moved to Mattoon, Camille was occasionally able to attend some of the annual Women's Studies Programs.
TARBLE READS I KILLED ADOLF HITLER
BY JASON
Thursday, October 17, 5-6pm
Tarble Classroom
Join us as we discuss this provocative graphic novel by the author/illustrator Jason. Jason’s quirky and direct drawing style creates an easy access point into this darkly satirical tale about history and alternate worlds. Big questions will come up as we explore the responsibilities and consequences linked to actions from the mundane to the existential.
FREE & Open to the Public
TARBLE ATRIUM CINEMA GET OUT
(R, 2017)
Tuesday, October 29, 5:30pm
Tarble Atrium
This Oscar award winner for Original Screenplay and nominee for Best Motion Picture, Best Actor (Daniel Kaluuya) and Best Achievement for Directing (Jordan Peele) follows a young African-American as he visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering uneasiness about their reception of him eventually reaches a boiling point. (adapted from IMDB)
Runtime is 1 hour 44 minutes.
FREE for Members & Students
$3 suggested donation for all others
TARBLE READS FEVER DREAM
BY SAMANTHA SCHWEBLIN
Thursday, November 5 , 5-6pm
Tarble Classroom
On the surface Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin is a story about a mother and her relationship with her child. Schweblin quickly turns this narrative on its head as she weaves in small town/big farm conflicts, mysticism, and magical thinking. Join us for a lively evening as we pull apart all these threads in the narrative and connect them back to the art on view.
FREE & Open to the public
TARBLE AFTER HOURS
Thursday, November 14, 5:30-8:30pm
Tarble Atrium, Classroom & Galleries
Alumni & Friends: 5:30-7:30
EIU Students: 6-8:30
Join us as we stay open late for our EIU friends and students! Explore the exhibitions on view, hang out, grab a bite to eat, make some art inspired by the evening’s events and listen to a live DJ. Drop in and enjoy the Tarble After Hours!
FREE & Open to the Public
TARBLE ATRIUM CINEMA
THE CENTRAL PARK FIVE (NR, 2012)
Tuesday, November 19, 5:30pm
Tarble Atrium
The Central Park Five, a film from award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns, tells the story of the five black and Latino teenagers from Harlem who were wrongly convicted of raping a white woman in New York City’s Central Park in 1989. The film chronicles The Central Park Jogger case, for the first time from the perspective of these five teenagers whose lives were upended by this miscarriage of justice. (from PBS)
Runtime is 2 hours.
FREE for Members & Students
TOTS 4 TARBLE
Fridays: September 13, October 18, November 8 & December 13, 10-11am
Tarble Classroom
Join us every month for Tots 4 Tarble! Each session will include a story, healthy snack and an artmaking project. This fall we will celebrating vibrant and playfully illustrated books that explore small and big ideas that we find inside the museum and in the world around us.
FREE & Open to the Public
RSVP Recommended
GALLERY 1104 ARTIST-IN-RESIDENCE:
ANNE VIEUX
Tuseday-Saturday, September 24-28, 2019
In Conversation artist Anne Vieux will use Gallery 1104 as a pop-up working studio during her residency week during Tarble open hours. During the residency, she will co-facilitate three workshops with high-school-aged students and have her studio open for visitors on Saturday during EIU’s Family Weekend.
Vieux’s artwork combines digital processes with painting processes and explores the effects of light, scale, and materiality through abstraction. Her process involves scanning holographic paper then pushing the limits of the image data through zooming, warping, and repetition. Vieux is an alum of EIU’s MA in Studio Art program.
Questions, call 217-581-ARTS (2787) or email tarble@eiu.edu
