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Students, you can be recognized for your creativity and innovation! Register up to 4 entries for submission in this year’s competitive art exhibition juried by 2019 Iowa Arts Fellow Rachel Merrill. Registration runs from January 31 – February 18, 2020.

Once works are registered, you can drop them off to the Anderson Gallery or STAH on Wednesday or Thursday, February 19-20, 2020 for review. Click here to access the online registration form and to see the rules and guidelines for entry: https://forms.gle/WaL4nwkMLc6VKxSr8   Or, point your camera on your phone at this QR code and it will automatically take you to the registration form.

You are invited to attend a brief info session on Friday, January 31 at noon in the Anderson Gallery to learn all the details on the entry process and how to professionally present your works. And please plan to attend the Awards Ceremony and reception on Sunday, March 8 from 1-3pm!

On display February 7 – March 1, 2020 in the Weeks Gallery with a mid-show reception on Thursday, February 13, 2020 from 4 – 6pm.

A collaborative exhibition between students in Professor Inbal Mazar’s ‘Latin American Legends’ course and students in the painting courses of Professor Angela Battle. Spanish students interviewed Des Moines residents from Latin America and shared translations of the legends with painting students, who then created visual translations. This show is a dialogue between both forms of expression. For inquiries contact: Angela Battle at angela.battle@drake.edu  or Inbal Mazar at inbal.mazar@drake.edu.

Una exhibición colaborativa entre estudiantes del curso ‘leyendas latinoamericanas’ de la profesora Inbal Mazar y estudiantes de los cursos de pintura de la profesora Ángela Battle. Estudiantes de español entrevistaron a residentes de Des Moines de origen latinoamericano y compartieron las traducciones de las leyendas con estudiantes de pintura, quienes luego crearon traducciones visuales. Esta exhibición es un diálogo entre ambas maneras de expresión. Para consultas comunicarse con: Ángela Battle angela.battle@drake.edu  o Inbal Mazar inbal.mazar@drake.edu.

There’s still time to tour the exhibition!  Here are a few candid photos that capture the energy and interest during the opening reception:

Curator Lenore Metrick-Chen engages the audience and describes why she selected these works to illustrate how artists in Iowa are actively pushing back and making work about race, immigration, identity, capitalism, consumerism, and patriotism. She is standing in front of works by Mitchell Squire and works by Donte’ K. Hayes and Taylor Yocom are also visible.

Visitors are captivated by Donte’ K. Hayes’ textured clay creations and prints.

Activist artist David Dunlap connects with students modeling his painted clothing constructions during a pop up performance.

Weeks Gallery, Harmon Fine Arts Center, Drake University

Opening reception: Friday, November 22, 4- 6pm with live performances, light food and beverages.

Carbon019 is a unique interdisciplinary project that creates working partnerships between students in the visual arts and those in disciplines from across the university to exchange ideas and then create new works inspired by that exchange.  The results of each exchange are here brought together into an exhibition rich in forms that propose inter-related dialogues between the partners and between the disciplines. 

November 7, 2019 – February 20, 2020

Curated by Lenore Metrick-Chen

The artists in Visual Disobedience respond to the current state of affairs in our culture. Their artworks are a form of concentrated awareness. The saying that “visual artists make the invisible visible” proves true in this exhibition: the artists allow us to see relationships between mandates handed down by our governing system and the results on human beings. These relationships would otherwise be invisible abstractions: the mandate and the result widely separated by time and distance. Artworks included in the exhibit raise questions and propose new ideas, and at times they create desirable alternatives to present circumstances.

Artists showcased in this exhibition include Miriam Alarcon Avila, Paul Brenin, Drew Cameron & Combat Paper, Phillip Chen, Tom Christison, Zen Cohen, David Dunlap, Mira Engler, John Fender, Donté K. Hayes, Serena Illuminati, Edward V. Kelley, Emily Newman, M. Ryan Noble, Mitchell Squire, Rob Stephens, and Taylor Yocom.

Selected images: Handle by Donté K. Hayes and Daca Luchador by Miriam Alarcon Avila

Our Town: Reclaiming the Narrative is an exhibition about individual agency, curated by Drake Professor Lenore Metrick-Chen. Agency is created from necessity, often motivated by frustration. But agency signifies that there is a choice. It pertains to our ability to choose our actions, or non-actions, and that is the foundation for all freedom.

The exhibition celebrates the works of the many Black people in our community whose individual choices and agency has led them to civic engagement and community building, resulting in social change improving the lives of all inhabitants.  Our Town can only offer a sampling of these acts of agency and individual bravery, but it provides space to add to the exhibition and validate others, famous or obscure in our community, whose actions have made a difference. In this way, the exhibition helps retell the history of narrative of Iowa to include witnesses from the small but vital Black communities that have shaped our state.
The objective for this exhibition in the upcoming years is for it to travel to venues across Iowa, both typical art venues and also non-traditional spaces, for instance YMCA’s and libraries as well as museums and galleries. Wherever displayed, Our Town will gather local stories. Some of these stories will then be included at the next exhibition sites to which it travels. The exhibition will get larger and larger as it travels, acquiring more voices. Although I am the curator, I foresee my presence in the exhibition diminishing as the exhibition overflows with local stories.

The exhibit was created to be versatile. It has shown at art venues and at celebrations, schools and social centers of various kinds. Since its creation in 2018, the exhibition has already shown at the Anderson Gallery at Drake University, at the Iowa Events Center for I’ll Make Me a World Iowa, at the historic Black Grubb Street YMCA, and at Central Campus High School in Des Moines. It has recently shown in Burlington Iowa’s Juneteenth celebration, and is scheduled to travel to the Blanden Art Museum in Fort Dodge, Iowa, October through December 2019.
In a protected venue, it can include antique and original objects, while in more open venues it can be reconfigured without them. At the YMCA, the 46′ long time line of the Black Panther’s Breakfast initiative was place on the curved wall of the running track!

Our Town is a traveling exhibition, traveling across and around Iowa. If you know of a site where you’d like the exhibition to travel, please contact me at Lmetrickchen@drake.edu.

Carissa Dannen, Sam, Drawing/Works on Paper
Caylee Gallagher, Canard Inverse, Drawing/Works on Paper
Rachel Chavin Trance, Drawing/Works on Paper
Rachel Chavin, Maternal Bruise, Printmaking
Madelene Opar, Waltz of the Macabre, Printmaking
Alison Kuttler, Toasted, Sculpture
Sarah Ghaussy, Untitled One, Sculpture
Sarah Ghaussy, Untitled 2, Sculpture
Hannah Hawbaker, Bless Your Heart Sculpture
Hannah Hawbaker, Untitled, Sculpture
Celine Lie, Rest In Peace, Drawing/Works on Paper
Terissa Brininger, Self-Portrait Collage, Drawing/Works on Paper
Ingrid McNeely, River Crossing, Painting/Sculpture
Katie Segler, Anomaly, Printmaking
Lindsey Andrea No Evil, Drawing/Works on Paper
Lindsey Andrea, LINZ, Drawing/Works on Paper
Lindsey Andrea, Abstract, Drawing/Works on Paper
Ashley Wildman, Evolution, Sculpture
Madison Kelly, Drake Magazine, Graphic Design
Morgan Stuedemann, Invasion, Drawing/Works on Paper
Morgan Stuedemann, Sisters, Painting
Saylor Schwab, The Magician, Drawing/Works on Paper
Anna Gleason, Bike DSM, Video
Emily Albers, Antelope Canyon, Graphic Design
Carlye Patterson, Wyatt, Painting
Carlye Patterson, Athena, Painting
Carlye Patterson, Jerichoe, Printmaking
Sara Jensen, Unknown, Printmaking
Marissa Hernandez, Phosphorescence, Painting
Madison Willey, Perspective, Printmaking
Alex Peake, Untitled 1, Printmaking

Gallery Hours and Times
To pick up work not accepted (Any work left after last date/time listed below might get lost!) Deliver accepted work from STAH (Must be in the gallery by last date/time listed below!)

Tuesday, February 26, 1:30 – 4pm
Wednesday, February 27, 1 – 4pm
Friday, March 1, 12 – 4
Saturday, March 2, 12 – 4

Thanks to all who participated!

The 48th Annual Juried Student Exhibition is a chance for Drake University students to experience showing work in the Anderson Gallery, win a cash prize, and sell their work! Students may submit up to four works including drawings, paintings, graphic design, sculpture, printmaking, digital, performance, and more. Work must be completed within the last two years and completed while you were registered for a class. Registration for submissions begins February 1st and ends February 14th, but now is the time to start thinking about pieces you might like to submit for the show! Registration information and links to the online registration process will be shared via email several weeks prior to the registration dates.

An info session will cover the registration process, how to prepare your work for installation in the show, the jury process, and the schedule. For questions, feel free to contact the Gallery Coordinator at clarissa.snapper@drake.edu or at 515-271-1994. Students are especially encouraged to contact the Gallery early with questions about installation preparation for items that may be hard to display.

• Info Session: February 6th, 2019 at 5:00-6:00 in the Anderson Gallery
• Registration: February 1st to 14th, 2019 via Eventbrite (info coming soon)
• Exhibition Opening: March 10th, 2019

Exhibition Opening Reception: November 9^th, 5:00-7:00 PM

Special Guest Speaker: Joshua Barr, Director of the Des Moines’ Civil and Human Rights Department, Friday, Nov. 16^th at 6:00 PM in the Turner Jazz Center.

Our Town: Reclaiming the Narrative, curated by Lenore Metrick-Chen

This exhibition celebrates the works of people whose individual choices and agency has led them to civic engagement and community building. Their initial act may have been solitary but their contributions have mattered. Our Town can only offer a sampling of these acts of agency and everyday bravery in Des Moines. The exhibition features short video interviews of local individuals including Drake students and alumni, and includes a timeline formed by newspaper articles on the Black Panther Party’s initiative of the breakfast program for children and its adoption and expansion by CFUM. Also, the exhibition houses a smaller exhibition which contains eight pairs of artworks. One image in each pairing shows a situation where agency was denied. In the companion artwork, the artist has deliberately addressed this same emblem of denied agency and, taking ownership of it, turned it on its head. The exhibition provides space for your comments and photos about your own acts of agency or for honoring actions by other members of the Des Moines community.

Please join us for the opening reception on the 9th from 5:00-7:00 and the evening guest speaker event with Joshua Barr on the 16th at 6:00 in the Turner Jazz Center. Light refreshments will be served.

For information or to arrange a class visit, please email clarissa.snapper@drake.edu or phone 515-271-1994.