The NOW Generation strives to include and engage young Chautauquans and families with a variety of programs. In that spirit, one young Chautauquan has taken the reins organizing a new event this summer.
The allusive title of this exhibition, conceived by Galleries Director Judy Barie, suggests a play on the contemporary phrase “farm to table.”
What is a drawing? Aside from being one of the oldest forms of human expression, and one of the most rudimentary, a drawing is a largely unmediated index of the maker.
At the beginning of Barbi Price’s weekly tour of Chautauqua Institution’s art galleries, she almost set Fowler-Kellogg Art Center on fire. She wanted to dramatically reveal the violin silhouette that Collin Everett’s Dada-inspired glass sculpture made on the gallery’s wall, so she held a manila folder in front of a bare light bulb pointed at the glass.
Paul Hauth is the guy you call when you need a wasps’ nest removed from the corner of the drawing studio. He’s also the guy you call when you want to learn your way around the welding pad out back.
“An Object of Beauty: Metal / Fiber / Glass,” opening Sunday at Fowler-Kellogg Art Center, includes a coping saw made of melted pennies, a crocheted sword from the cartoon “He-Man” and a shovel cast in glass, among other pieces.
Judy Barie, Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution’s galleries director, said she was looking for unusual and unexpected objects made of each material — metal, fiber and glass — for the exhibit.
“How often do you see an airplane made of glass?” Barie said, pointing out a piece by Travis Rohrbaugh.
Chautauqua Institution’s first-ever wood art exhibition, “Wood: On and Off the Wall,” is now open.
“I’m a real lover of craft,” said Judy Barie, the Institution’s director of galleries. “I love three-dimensional work, so that was why I chose to open up with a craft show this season.”
The show opened Sunday at Strohl Art Center.
There had been a countdown on the chalkboard at the Chautauqua School of Art for more than a week. It read: Seven days before Don picks your work for the Student Exhibition! Then five days, then three. Friday, Artistic Director of the Visual Arts at Chautauqua Institution Don Kimes chose work from each student to hang in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center during the quickest exhibition installation of the season.
The art was hung in just one day, ready for the opening of the School of Art Annual Student Show Sunday from 3–5 p.m. in the Fowler-Kellogg Art Center. The show is unique among Chautauqua art shows, because the gallery does not open to viewers until the opening reception begins, in part because of the rapid manner of its assembly, and in part because of the popularity of the art.
“It’s always a challenge to place the show,” Kimes said. “A group show is always difficult to hang. There’s obviously no theme, except that it’s all students.”
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