Events
Blake Sanders | Home Bound
WED. APR. 7. 3:00 PM EST - In Home Bound, artist/educator Blake Sanders will discuss his artwork centered around his family's complicity in ecological impact and being a good neighbor in a competitive, consumerist society. He explores these themes through an expansive printmaking practice and connection to the international print community.
Most of the materials that comprise these works are repurposed: from the fabric passed down from quilting friends and family or recycled from previous projects, to the inks left behind by students in the collective studio stash, to the printed curtains comprised of donated, decommissioned hotel linens. The conservation employed in these projects challenges the “every family for themselves” mindset, instead promoting a practice that ensures there are resources for all and messes for no one in the neighborhood.
Artist Talk, Wednesday, April 7, 2021, 3:00 PM EST
Event Video (coming soon)
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.
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.