Congratulations to all the Drake University students who had artwork accepted into the 47th Annual Juried Student Exhibition!  Thank you to juror Matt Coen for being a part of our exhibition and for sharing his insights with us.  It’s going to be a great show!

Opening Reception Sunday, March 25, 1-3pm!

Here’s the full list of accepted artworks:

Lindsey Andrea                       Untitled painting

Sarai Bak                                 “PARALLAX: Friends and Lovers”

Sarai Bak                                 “расстояние”

Sarai Bak                                 “бессмертный”

Cassandra Bauer                     “Outlook”

Cassandra Bauer                     ”Artist in Residence: Cait Irwin”

Cassandra Bauer                     “Hand in Charcoal”

Cassandra Bauer                     “Layers”

Rachel Chavin                         “Amendment of Moroccan Article 475”

Rachel Chavin                         “Epidemic”

Rachel Chavin                         “Life Development”

Maddi Cheek                           “Sarah x 64”

Margaret Clapham                 “Sun & Moon”

Robert Clark                            Untitled graphic design

Calla Clemenson                     “Kraken”

Calla Clemenson                     Untitled sculpture (wood, wood stain)

Clio Cullison                            “home”

Clio Cullison                            Untitled printmaking

Clio Cullison                            Untitled printmaking

Monica Donham                     “Figure #2”

Madison Frey                          “State of the Union”

Sadie Gowans                         “How Far We’ve Come”

Sadie Gowans                         Untitled drawing

Hannah Hawbaker                  “Siren”

Hannah Hawbaker                  “Heirloom II”

Olivia Hockey                          “Unbought and Unbossed”

Olivia Hockey                          Untitled painting

Olivia Hockey                          Untitled drawing

Chloe Janich                            “Legs”

Chloe Janich                            “Color Craze”

Sara Jensen                             “Lydia Jensen”

Sara Jensen                             “Bike to the Moon and Back”

Madison Kelly                         “What’s Going on?”

Madison Kelly                         “The Invertebrates”

Celine Lie                                “Flag of Me”

Celine Lie                                “Llama yarn GIF”

Yee Kwan Lim                         Untitled printmaking

Yee Kwan Lim                         “Fantastic Worlds”

Yee Kwan Lim                         “If”

Melissa McElin                       “Balloon GIF”

Jordan McEntaffer                  “Montserrat Type Specimen Book”

Jordan McEntaffer                  “Portfolio Trading Cards”

Jordan McEntaffer                  “Juxtaposed Cliches”

Ingrid McNeely                       “Salamander Mountain”

Erin Opar                                 “The Apennine Colossus”

Erin Opar                                 “Jellyfish Mirage”

Erin Opar                                 “365 (Or, The Meaning of Life)”

Nicole Prancik                         “Headspace”

Nicole Prancik                         “Sound of the Night”

Ellyn Ross                                Untitled Sculpture (steel rod)

Ellyn Ross                                Untitled Sculpture (steel rod & wood)

Katie Segler                            “Recognize”

Katie Segler                            “Facade”

Anna Shewmaker                   “Event Invite”

Anna Shewmaker                   Untitled graphic design

Madeline Snell                        “Geometric Growth”

Morgan Stuedemann              “Thoughts and Dreams”

Maddie Willey                        “Semester l”

Maddie Willey                         “A Day at the Beach”

Maddie Willey                        “Lion GIF”

Olivia Young                            “Unlocked”

Olivia Young                            “Bumble Buds”

Hannah Zuber                         “Quiet Rebellion”

Hannah Zuber                         “Untitled 1”

Hannah Zuber                         “City Girl”

Opening Thursday, Nov. 9, 5-7 pm!

Mies | Weese at Drake: Where We Live and Work
An exhibition exploring Iowa connections to renowned modernist architects
Anderson Gallery, Drake University
November 9 – December 22, 2017
Free and open to the public \ RSVP on Facebook (optional)

An exhibition at Drake University’s Anderson Gallery reveals the Iowa connections to three pioneering minds in modernist architecture. Mies | Weese at Drake: Where We Live and Work features previously unseen work by renowned architects Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Harry Weese, and Ben Weese, who collectively designed five buildings on Drake’s campus.

The exhibit, which runs Nov. 9 through Dec. 22, contrasts the architects’ visions for their buildings with the memories and traditions of those who have inhabited them.

“During the 1960s and 1970s, many U.S. colleges and universities redefined their educational missions through long-term planning and building campaigns,” said Maura Lyons, exhibition curator and professor of art history at Drake University. “Drake’s approach was distinct because the university renewed its commitment to modernist architecture, begun two decades earlier with the construction of multiple buildings designed by Eliel and Eero Saarinen. This exhibition provides an unprecedented look at the legacy of Mies and Weese on Drake’s campus.”

Free public events associated with the exhibition include a gallery opening with remarks from the curators on Nov. 9; a panel discussion on current building projects at private colleges and universities in Iowa on Nov. 11; and lectures on the work of Harry and Ben Weese and Mies van der Rohe on Nov. 16 and Dec. 7, respectively.

The exhibition is the result of a collaboration between Lyons and Drake students enrolled in a curating course. Students are involved in all aspects of the exhibition including selection, research, writing, design, installation, and public outreach.

Mies & Weese on Drake’s campus

Mies van der Rohe, whose most famous work includes the Seagram Building in New York, the Chicago Federal Center, and the Neue National Gallery in Berlin, designed Meredith Hall (1965), which is home to Drake’s School of Journalism and Mass Communication.

Best known for their work on the Washington Metro system, the Time-Life Building in Chicago, and the U.S. embassy in Ghana, the Weese brothers designed five buildings at Drake University. Harry Weese designed Goodwin-Kirk and Ross residence halls (1962); his brother, Ben Weese, designed the Harmon Fine Arts Center (1972) and Olmsted Center (1974).

The display includes never-before exhibited plans and drawings selected from archives of the Chicago History Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, Mies van der Rohe Archive at the Museum of Modern Art, and Drake University.

One of the exhibit’s centerpieces is a large-scale model of Drake’s campus, completed by Mies’ office in the 1960s to showcase the architect’s vision for Meredith Hall. The detailed wooden model was recently found in a dark corner of the attic of Sheslow Auditorium—buried in dust, forgotten for decades, but luckily protected by a glass case.

“We actually didn’t know what it was until we got it out of the attic,” Lyons said. “It’s very heavy, and our facilities team had to lift it over a structural beam that had been placed in its path at some point during the decades that it was up there.”

Bulldogs put their stamp on the Mies and Weese legacy

Great architects have a vision for the way their buildings will be used. The people who live, work, and play in them often have other ideas.

For example: Mies van der Rohe may have designed Meredith Hall’s wide hallways to accommodate foot traffic, but it also created an ideal environment for a former Times-Delphic student newspaper editor to pull her friends around in a red wagon.

Harry Weese probably never imagined that students would use Goodwin-Kirk’s utilitarian rows of residence hall doors for a unique “musical prank”: slamming each door, one after another in succession, to create a wave of sound that raised unsuspecting undergrads from their slumber.

The Mies | Weese exhibition uses photographs, video footage, and letters from Drake alumni to contrast the architects’ visions with its inhabitants’ memories and traditions.

“Great architecture is defined not only by those elements envisioned by the architects, but also by the ways in which people alter those spaces to make them their own,” said curator Maura Lyons. “A buildings meaning is shaped by sounds and smells, by behavior that shapes the physical and emotional features of the space—in short, by the humans who inhabit them.”

Free events provide in-depth insight

The Anderson Gallery has scheduled several programs that are free and open to the public in conjunction with the exhibition:

• Thursday, Nov. 9: Exhibition opening. 5 to 7 p.m., with gallery talk by the curators at 6 p.m. Anderson Gallery
• Saturday, Nov. 11: Panel discussion about current building projects at private colleges and universities in Iowa, with representatives from Drake, Cornell College, Grand View University, and Grinnell College. 10 a.m. to noon, Turner Jazz Center
• Thursday, Nov. 16: Lecture on Harry & Ben Weese and Eero Saarinen by Robert Bruegmann, professor emeritus, University of Illinois at Chicago. 7 p.m., Harmon Fine Arts Center, room 336
• Thursday, December 7: Lecture on Mies van der Rohe by his grandson, Dirk Lohan, principal at Wight & Company. 7 p.m., Meredith Hall room 106

About the exhibit

The exhibition is supported by a major grant from Humanities Iowa, a state-based affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by an art project grant from the Iowa Arts Council, a division of the Iowa Department of Cultural Affairs, and the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional funding has been provided by Friends of Drake Arts and from the Office of the Provost and College of Arts and Sciences at Drake University.

Follow the exhibition on Instagram: @DrakeUniversityArchitecture.

About the Anderson Gallery

The Anderson Gallery, a non-profit exhibition space on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, was founded in 1996 to exhibit and support innovation in art and design. Part laboratory, part showcase, the Gallery’s main goal is to promote the growth and understanding of art through exhibitions, programs, and publications.

The Anderson Gallery is open Tuesdays, Wednesdays, and Friday through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.; and extended hours on Thursdays from 12 p.m. to 8 p.m. The gallery is closed on Mondays and during University holidays. 

The Anderson Gallery is located within the Harmon Fine Arts Center at 1310 25^th Street, at the corner of Carpenter and 25^th. For more information, contact the gallery at 515-271-1994 or visit https://theandersongallery.wordpress.com.

The Paper is Part of the Picture: Contemporary Paper and Book Arts

Presented by the Anderson Gallery @ Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa

In this day and age of digital immediacy, the allure of handmade and tactile qualities of paper continue to draw interest. This exhibition seeks to bring the use of paper to the front and center of the artwork created.

Seeking works on (or of) paper that celebrate the medium of paper. Accepting paper art, artists’ books, letterpress, screenprint, printmaking, paintings, photograph prints, digital works on paper, installations, fashion, drawings and sculptures. 

The competition and exhibition is open to emerging as well as established artists, 18 years of age or older, working in the continental US.

JURORS:
Sarah McCoy (Assistant Professor of Graphic Design, Drake University)  and Mary Jones (Professor Emeritus of Art & Design, Grandview University)

AWARDS:

$250 worth of Awagami Editioning papers will be awarded to the winner of the Jurors’ Choice, courtesy of Awagami Papermill, Japan.

EXHIBITION DATES:
January 19 – February 25, 2018
Opening Reception Friday, February 2, 2018, 5 – 7 pm

Submitted work must be available for the duration of the exhibition.

The Anderson Gallery @ Drake University reserves the right to exclude from the exhibition any works that do not arrive in sturdy condition, or are deemed too fragile to be successfully exhibited. Work that has not been suitably prepared will be hung at the Anderson Gallery’s discretion.

Please only submit work that will be available at the time of the exhibition and will remain for its entirety. No accepted entry may be withdrawn prior to the close of the exhibition.

Please refer to the prospectus for full details regarding eligibility, deadlines, and details posted on the Anderson Gallery website at:  https://theandersongallery.wordpress.com/

CALENDAR:
November 27, 2017  Deadline for emailed entries
December 8, 2017  Artists notified by email
January 4 – 10, 2018   Work must be received by the Anderson Gallery
January 19 – February 25, 2018 Exhibition dates
February 2,  5–7 PM, Opening Reception
March 1, 2018  Work returned to artists

• SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
  Artists may submit up to (3) pieces of work, 1-2 images per entry are allowed.
• Digital images are the only accepted form of submission.
• Images must be JPEG, 72 ppi/dpi (standard web resolution), 600-900 pixels on the longest side of the actual print image.
• Email submissions to andersongallery@drake.edu, subject: call for entries.
• Title images “ArtistLastName_Image1,” etc.
• Include caption sheet with corresponding image numbers.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Please include in your application a one page Artist Statement.

NOTIFICATION:

Accepted entries will be notified by email by December 8, 2017.

DELIVERY OF ACCEPTED ARTWORK: 

Shipping/Delivery instructions will accompany email notification of acceptance. Shipping to the Anderson Gallery is the responsibility of the artist. Return shipping via FedEx or UPS for accepted artworks will be provided by the Anderson Gallery for most work with a pre-printed Return Label.  Any larger submissions or packages that weigh more than 15 lbs. must be sent with a pre-paid return shipping label or shippers’ UPS or FEDEX account number to charge to artists’ account.

LIABILITY: 
Works will be insured for the duration of the exhibition while the work is on-site to the extent of 100% of the artist’s stated retail value.

AGREEMENT:
Submission to Paper is Part of the Picture: Contemporary Paper and Book Arts constitutes an agreement with all conditions of this show. The Anderson Gallery @ Drake University reserves the right to photograph accepted work for publicity purposes. The Anderson Gallery @ Drake University reserves the right to reject any work not resembling the submitted entry or work that is not ready to be shown according to the aforementioned specifications.

ABOUT THE ANDERSON:
The Anderson Gallery, a non-profit exhibition space on the campus of Drake University in Des Moines, was founded in 1996 to exhibit and support innovation in art and design. Part laboratory, part showcase, the Gallery’s main goal is to promote the growth and understanding of art through exhibitions, programs, and publications.

The Anderson Gallery is not simply a place to see exhibits, but also serves as a cultural force in Des Moines and beyond.  The Anderson Gallery is a site for critical discourse, professional and social engagement, learning, and aesthetic experience.