
Events

Alex Emmons | For Rosalie: Eggcups and More
THUR. NOV. 19. 7:00 PM EST - Artist/Educator Alex Emmons with selected artists will be speaking about a print exchange project dedicated to her mother’s life called For Rosalie: Eggcups and More. This is a celebratory portfolio of art prints created by 60+ artists in remembrance of her mother, Rosalie Emmons.
This collection of prints was created by 68 different artists touch on suggested themes connected to Rosalie’s life from Nature, Landscape, Birds, Human & Animal Migration, Farming & Sustainability, Craft & Feminist Traditions, Material culture (the way objects contain stories), and Loss & Remembering.

Carlos Diaz | Confederate Monuments in the American South
THUR. NOV. 12. 6:30 PM EST - Join the virtual discussion as the Shircliff Gallery presents the ongoing project by Artist/Educator Carlos Diaz, The Confederate Monuments in the American South. No single phenomenon has had more direct and impactful repercussions on the shaping of our countries historical and contemporary conditions, as that of race. As a person of color, there is no experience without that single piece of reality. In a general sense, this project, questions how race is intertwined with history, memory, place and how they manifest and reconcile within a contemporary American experience.

Anders Johnson | Afterimage
WED. NOV. 11. 2:00PM EST - Join us virtually in a conversation with Anders Johnson as he shares Afterimages, is latest project. “Afterimages” refers to painted worlds where there is no observable hierarchy of value – Hellenistic Sarcophagus lids sit adjacent to Yeti coolers and pontoon boats are covered with intricate mosaic tesserae. In response to his Ready-mades, Marcel Duchamp once suggested that a Rembrandt painting could be used as an ironing board. In the wake of the global pandemic, this series of paintings now suggest an “After times” where surrealism becomes the new normal.

Libby Rowe | Pink
WED. OCT.28 2:00 PM EST - Join us virtually in the Shircliff Gallery as Artist/Educator Libby Rowe presents her experience driven performance art project Pink. The most recent work included in Pink stems from my experience of regularly being addressed as “Sir” since moving to the South. I have always been a tall woman with short hair, a relatively low voice, and a confident presence. This constant questioning of femininity lead her to explore the standards of femaleness and the gendered indoctrination systems in place during her childhood.

Nitashia Johnson | Image is Everything
WED. OCT. 7. 2:30 PM EST - Join us virtually in the Shircliff Gallery as designer and photographer Nitashia Johnson shares her creative path from student to first-round Sony Alpha Female Creator-in-residence. With an unwavering passion for design and photography she is an alumnus of the Master of Arts in Teaching (MAT) in Art & Design Education program at the Rhode Island School of Design. Johnson is currently developing a community-based media arts program for highly creative school teens. She uses her talents to make others happy, and to promote positive images of people of color.

Benjamin Timpson | About Face
PAST - Join us virtually as Benjamin Timpson walks us through the history of his creative process. Timpson combines is love for biology, art and activism through the complex creation of detailed portraits. He also introduces us to Oscar, his hand built 16"x20" View camera and explains the process of making 16"x20" paper negatives. Viewers use their smartphones to decode the negatives turning them into positives on their own devices.

Michael Darough | The Talk
ONLINE NOW - Artist and educator Michael Darough introduces his award winning project,The Talk (2018-Present) via on-line video. These images were created in response to the Black Lives Matter Movement. The faceless men represent individuals affected by this systemic issue. Those void of the figure symbolize the stories that struggle to be told; they ones that do not receive news coverage.
Shircliff Gallery exhibitions and speaker programs in the Art and Design Department are made possible in part with a generous grant from the Indiana Arts Commission; the Vanderburgh Community Foundation, a partner of the Community-Foundation Alliance, Inc.: and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency. Additional support is provided by the Vincennes University Foundation.