Art & Art History News

Folk art exhibits

Two exhibits, “Traditional Mexican Folk Art from Michoacan: Selections from the Deibner-Hanson Collection,” and “Crafting Traditions: Oaxacan Wood Carvings” will be shown at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery Sunday, Jan. 20 through March 3. Read More

Posted Jan 18, 2013

Biondo-Gemmel exhibits work

In September, Susannah Biondo-Gemmell exhibited artwork in “Earth and Alchemy,” a show surveying contemporary ceramic sculpture, at the Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston. In November, she exhibited new time-based ceramic sculpture at the “Clay Colleagues” exhibition, alongside other regional ceramic artists, at Cornell’s Peter Paul Luce Gallery. Upcoming exhibitions include “Elements” in which she will be representing the “element of fire” through ceramic materials, at the Northern Clay Center, Minneapolis. Read More

Posted Nov 01, 2012

Dyas’ work featured

Art Lecturer Sandy Dyas exhibited a new body of photography and video, “my eyes are not shut,” at the Anderson Gallery at Drake University in Des Moines Sept. 7 through Oct. 12. She will also exhibit at Lawrence University in Kansas and teach a photography workshop in Prague. Read More

Posted Oct 19, 2012

2012-2013 Fine Arts Calendar

Cornell's fine arts events for 2012-2013 include performances of the Tony Award winning Avenue Q, a variety of Luce Gallery shows honoring recently retired art professor Doug Hanson, the return of the female vocal ensemble Tapestry, and the annual holiday choral concert. Read More

Posted Oct 09, 2012

“Resolutions” at Luce Gallery

“Resolutions”, a ceramics installation by artist Linda Swanson, will be exhibited at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College, Saturday, Jan. 14 through Sunday Feb. 12. An opening reception will be held Saturday Jan. 14 from 2 to 4 p.m. in McWethy Hall. Artist Linda Swanson will give a gallery talk at 3 p.m. [...] Read More

Posted Jan 03, 2012

Potters For Peace Luncheon

The Multicultural Council is sponsoring an informal luncheon with the executive board of Potters For Peace on Nov 11th. Professor Doug Hanson is hosting the annual meeting of the Potters For Peace executive board Nov. 10-14, and the 10-member board will be in attendance from Nicaragua, Canada, and across the United States. Hanson has been [...] Read More

Posted Nov 04, 2011

“Cut-Ups” Exhibition at Cornell College

“Cut-Ups,” an exhibition of mixed media paintings by Ellen Campbell, Neva Sills, Johannah Silva, and Mary Lou Zelazny, will be exhibited at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College, Sunday, Nov. 6 through Sunday, Dec. 4. An opening reception will be held Sunday, Nov. 6 from 2 to 4 p.m. in McWethy Hall. Ellen [...] Read More

Posted Oct 20, 2011

Johnson’s murals strengthen communities in Iowa and Ecuador

When Mike Johnson arrived at Cornell for his freshman year, he found himself at a campus mobilized for action. Nearby Cedar Rapids had just experienced a flood so massive that it ranked fifth on the nation’s list of worst natural disasters. Cornell, service-oriented and neighborly, called on its entire community to help. Johnson made a [...] Read More

Posted Sep 17, 2011

Show to honor professor’s legacy

Doug Hanson Legacy, a show which features works by 25 Cornell alumni who studied with art professor Doug Hanson during his 40 years of teaching ceramics, sculpture and drawing at Cornell College, will be exhibited at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College, Sunday Sept. 18 through Oct. 23, 2011. An opening reception will be held [...] Read More

Posted Sep 07, 2011

Senior art shows in April and May

Five senior studio art majors will display their visual art thesis projects in the Peter Paul Luce Gallery April 24 through May 4, with an opening reception to be held Sunday, April 24, from 2 to 4 p.m. Exhibiting students are Abby Schultz, Sam Arnold, Kat Korsmo, Nicholas Richards, and Charles McDonald Jr. Schultz’s installation [...] Read More

Posted Apr 20, 2011

Post-flood art exhibit

The ‘Wreck’ Room: Postdiluvian Art by Mel Andringa, will be exhibited at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College, Feb. 20 – March 20, 2011. An artist’s reception will be held Sunday, Feb. 20, 2-4 p.m. with a gallery talk at 2 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., [...] Read More

Posted Feb 14, 2011

What is Understading? Who Needs Art Education Now?

Lois Hetland ’75, professor of art education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design and research associate for Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education will return to campus October 14th and 15th to give a series lectures on various aspects of art education. What is education for? Project Zero, an educational [...] Read More

Posted Oct 05, 2010

HAIG Lecture

Christa Noel Robbins, assistant professor of art and art history, will give a lecture on Oct 7th titled “Salaam, Cinema: International Modernism and the Iranian ‘New Wave’.” This talk looks at the films of popular Iranian directors, Mohsen Makhmalbaf and Abbas Kiarostami. Through an examination of filmic “interpellation” in Makhmalbaf’s and Kiarostami’s films, Robbins will [...] Read More

Posted Oct 01, 2010

Emeritus art professor giving talk on Mercedes Matter

Hugh Lifson, Professor Emeritus of Art at Cornell College, will give a talk Nov. 14 at 7:30 p.m. at the Figge Museum in Davenport about the Pedagogy of Mercedes Matter. Matter, a member of the second generation of the New York School and daughter of the early abstractionist Arthur B. Carles, was a student of [...] Read More

Posted Sep 24, 2010

Alum wins design competition

Kristin Caskey ’84, won first place in the international Peacock Standard Thai Silk Design Competition. The competition was co-sponsored by Thailand’s Queen Sirikit Institute of Sericulture and the International Textile and Apparel Association. The purpose of the competition is to showcase the Thai government’s “Peacock Standard” for Thai silk. The standard was established by Queen [...] Read More

Posted Sep 15, 2010

Fluidity of Gender: Sculpture exhibit

Fluidity of Gender, an exhibition of sculptures by feminist artist Linda Stein will be exhibited at the Peter Paul Luce Gallery at Cornell College from Sept. 5 through Oct. 3. An artist’s lecture will be held Sunday, Sept. 12, 2 p.m. with reception for the artist 3 to 5 p.m. Gallery hours are Monday through [...] Read More

Posted Aug 30, 2010

Dyas’ photography featured

Sandy Dyas, a lecturer in Fine Arts at Cornell College, will have work featured by The Center for Fine Art Photography in its latest exhibition. The Center for Fine Art Photography’s exhibition, Black and White, will be on display in the Center’s gallery from Aug. 27 through Sept. 25. Forty-five photographers representing China, Iceland, New [...] Read More

Posted Aug 27, 2010

Art installation uses light

DRIFT, an art installation by Stan Crocker is a collection of found elements- ladders, cupolas, wedding dresses, bedsprings, window frames, doors, bicycles, mirrors, chandeliers, steer skulls, parasols, tractor tires, canoes- bits and pieces of the Iowa landscape floating in a gauzy cylinder of color and light that wraps the viewer 360 degrees. It is a 30-foot high piece in which [...] Read More

Posted Aug 25, 2010

Third round of student art shows start Sunday

Four Cornell College seniors are presenting art shows as part of their thesis starting May 9. On May 9, senior art majors Bonnie Sedan and Kait Wiszt will each present their thesis art exhibitions in Peter Paul Luce Gallery in McWethy Hall on the campus of Cornell College. Sedan’s work uses wooden crates as containers [...] Read More

Posted May 05, 2010

Senior studios give art students freedom to create

Like all studio art majors, Sam Bonow received a key to his own private studio space at the beginning of his senior year, and he’s made the most of it. With most of his other graduation requirements complete, Bonow is spending six of his last nine blocks at Cornell creating paintings in his studio during [...] Read More

Posted Apr 16, 2010