st. lawrence university: department of fine arts

It has been a long time since I have posted here…. my apologies. I am maintaining a ton of blogs, for courses and other SLU-related things at this point, and this one has suffered.

I am writing to announce that SAM GOETZ IS COMING!!
Sam will arrive in Canton on Thursday, Feb 26 to do a super-8 experimental film project with the Senior Seminar students. The project is in the same vein as straight 8. This should be super fun!

At 7pm on Thursday February 26 in GR 123, Sam will show some of his short films, including BRUNO, which has screened internationally thorough various independent film festivals. Afterward, we will have a friendly and casual discussion with this young film maker and recent graduate of NYU’s Tisch School.  Please join us!

DAVID REES, visiting artist, November 19, 2008, Griffiths 123, 7pm

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The Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, with support from several SLU departments and programs, is pleased to present a return lecture presentation by David Rees, author of the well-known syndicated comic series, Get Your War On and Get Your War On II.  The lecture will be presented on Wednesday, November 19, 2008, in Griffiths Room 123 at 7:00 p.m.

David’s newest book, Get Your War On: The Definitive Account of the War on Terror 2001-2008, is hailed by Rolling Stone as “the most original cartoon to emerge since… well ever.  Raw, enraged, sardonic, hilarious, despairing, and impossible to pigeonhole” while Comedy Central writes that David Rees is “the Thomas Nast of the Internet.”

Matt Taibbi writes in his introduction the book,

“[Get Your War On] is a tale of a guy pacing back and forth in his pajamas in his New York home, trying to find his way back to humor, only to keep getting dragged back down by disgust and mortification over the state of things in “War on Terrorism” America.  It’s an honest portrait of who we were, written in a time when no one else had the guts to tell the truth about ourselves.  Get Your War On exposes us as the cowardly, self-pitying, half-educated violence addicts that we are — and exposes the “War on Terrorism” as a pathetic excuse to cosmetically enhance our flagging self-esteem, a national boob job that didn’t come close to looking real and will only look worse as we get older.”

You can learn more about David Rees and his work at http://www.mnftiu.cc/.

According to the author, Get Your War On will be retired after this year’s Presidential election, so David is calling his final presentations “post-election post-mortems.”

All author royalties from the Get Your War On books are donated to the Mine Detection & Dog Center Team #5, which clears land mines and unexploded ordnance in western Afghanistan.

***The presentation will undoubtedly include swear words, so parents, please check David’s Web site before you consider letting your children attend.***

St. Lawrence University Department of Fine Arts 2008-2009 presents:

Wednesday October 15, 2008 at 7:30pm Griffiths 123
Dr. Marla Berns, Shirley and Ralph Shapiro Director of the Fowler Museum at UCLA will present her lecture:

DR. MARLA BERNS - Africa on My Mind, The Arts of Magdalene Oduno and Renee Stout

Free Admission. Open to the Public
Supported by the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for the Fine Arts.

St. Lawrence University Department of Fine Arts 2008-2009 presents:

MARK WETHLI – info
MONDAY, October 13, 4:30pm, Noble Center 109
Free Admission. Open to the Public. FYP Cup eligible.
Supported by the Jeanne Scribner Cashin Endowment for the Fine Arts.

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES, An Artist’s Lecture by Mark Wethli

Kartoon King aka CHRISTOPHER SPERANDIO will speak about his work tomorrow:
October 2, 2008, 7pm in GRIFFITHS 123

Since 1995, KARTOON KINGS, Simon Grennan (UK) and Christopher Sperandio (US) have created comic books and art installations based on their iconic cartoon drawing style.  These works often focus attention on specific contexts and communities. HORSE GUTS is a new painted installation, which takes as its starting point artworks by Canton’s most famous native, Frederic Remington (1861-1909).  Much has been written about Remington’s vision of the American West.  For this installation, Grennan and Sperandio have isolated Remington’s pictorial interest in animals, namely the horse.  In many of Remington’s works, the horse is a tool of war and often an expendable one at that…… for more complete information go to the gallery.

It was an amazing weekend with the artists from the Combat Paper Project who gave a talk/reading on Friday night and conducted a paper and printmaking workshop all weekend. If you missed it, bummer. But if you still want to learn about these visiting artists who were here for the past three days cranking out some amazing work, visit the Brush Gallery website and blog for background information on their project and the gallery’s exhibition, the Combat Paper Project at Green Door Studio in Burlington, VT, and Iraq Veterans Against the War.
Brave, brave folks.  -amy

The current exhibition in the Brush Gallery (hallway) is going to include the upcoming discussions and workshops:

For complete information about this exhibition go here.

Dr. Marla Berns, Director of UCLA Fowler Museum of Natural History and editor of African Arts journal to visit SLU!

Please stay tuned for details on this very important pending visitor!!!