Architects Draw - Opening Reception : 2012.11.02_fri

Architects Draw - Opening Reception

Friday, November 2nd, Convivium33 Gallery - 6:00-10:00pm - FREE / PUBLIC

1433 East 33rd Street (One Way/off Superior Avenue)

Cleveland, Ohio 44114

 

Sponsored by AIA Cleveland, Architects Draw is an exhibition concept conceived from Peter's appreciation for what may seem natural but in today's age and fixation with all things digital, is not.  Peter reminds us that you won't find the soul of architecture in your desktop.  Great architecture can only derive from a uniquely human collaboration between the mind, the eyes and the hand.   Peter, who spent a year in Rome on a Fulbright fellowship, will be featured as a special guest artist and will showcase his personal travel sketches from over the years. The juried exhibition will include recent works in a variety of disciplines by Architects and students of Architecture.  

  

Architects, intern architects, associates and architecture students were invited to submit travel sketches, paintings, watercolors, and similar works of art outside the normal business of architecture. AIA Cleveland President Kurt Weaver admitted "We had no idea what to expect, by all accounts submissions exceeded the expectations of this first ever exhibit concept for AIA Cleveland."  It then became the difficult job of a distinguished panel of jurors to evaluate and determine the finalists of the show.  The jurors included Artist, Cathie Bleck, CIA President, Grafton Nunes, Artist, Christopher Pekoc, Artist, Antonia Reiner and Artist and Art Critic, Douglas Max Utter.

The exhibit will be on display from Friday, November 2nd through December 2nd, 2012. Exhibit viewing hours are Monday and Wednesday from 6:00pm-8:00pm and Saturday and Sunday from 10:00am-2:00pm. 

 

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Sculpture Center W2S 2014 Call for Artists

THE SCULPTURE CENTER IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE THAT W2S, ITS KEYSTONE EXHIBITION SERIES, IS NOW OPEN TO EARLY CAREER ARTISTS OF OHIO AND OUR ENTIRE REGION. THE REGION  Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, western Pennsylvania (the western half of the state), western New York (Rochester and west), or Ontario, Canada. THE EARLY CAREER ARTIST The sculptor, installation artist, or expanded media artist must have a connection to the region by birth, residency, or schooling, but does not need to be currently residing in the region. By the application deadline (January 2013), the sculptor must have completed his/her schooling, apprenticeship, or period of equivalent self-taught experience and be no more than ten years into h/her career. Submitted images should be of sculpture, installation, or other expanded media that indicates current work and, if possible, the nature of the proposed W2S exhibition. The W2S artworks or installations may not have been previously exhibited in northeastern Ohio. The creation of a new or further developed body of work for the W2S series is encouraged and preferable.    THE DEADLINE  Sunday, January 6, 2013, at midnight! FULL INFORMATIONFor the complete Call for Artists, eligibility, responsibilities, application requirements, and application form,  click here.       APPLY HERE QUESTIONS? Email or call Ann Albano at 216.229.6527 Linky!

Building With Nature Symposium: 2012.10.18

Building with nature: A symposium to explore the frontiers of green building, biomimicry and architecture  9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on October 18, 2012, at The Cleveland Museum of Natural History The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is planning to redevelop its campus in University Circle. One of the goals is to create a building that embodies the Museum's mission of inspiring a passion for nature, protecting natural diversity, fostering health and providing leadership to a sustainable future. To explore the latest thinking, the Museum is hosting a public symposium about the integration of buildings and nature. Following the educational success of the Museum's PNC SmartHome exhibit in 2011, the symposium will stimulate ideas about the potential for new kinds of buildings in Northeast Ohio—radically better buildings that respond to human needs while restoring the Earth's natural systems. The symposium is one of several opportunities for the community to be involved in the Museum's building project. Topics and speakers include: The new green museum: The museum as a living building telling the story of sustainability—Curtis Fentress, Fentress Architects The greenest buildings: The Bullitt Center and the Living Building Challenge—Chris Rogers,Point32 Design at the sustainable edge: The idea of a theoretical minimum for buildings— Alexis Karolides, Rocky Mountain Institute Biomimicry and architecture: Innovation inspired by nature— Ilaria Mazzoleni, Southern California Institute of Architecture Buildings in ecosystems: Site sustainability and performative landscape design— Steve Benz, OLIN Studio Responsive design: Buildings that interact with changing environments— David Benjamin, Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation Integrating sustainability: Lessons from achieving low-energy and high-performance buildings— Denzil Gallagher and Craig Schwitter, Buro Happold Free and open to the public, but registration is required. Register online or send an email toLKelly@cmnh.org or call 216-231-1177.

SculptureX Symposium #3: The State of Expanded Media: 2012.10.20

SCULPTUREX SYMPOSIUM #3: THE STATE OF EXPANDED MEDIA IS OPEN FOR PRE-REGISTRATION

Pre-registration required - click here. Please include your name, email address, school affiliation (if any), phone, and number of people attending. Your pre-registration will be acknowledged.

SculptureX Symposium #3: The State of Expanded Media
The discipline once known as sculpture is no longer bound to serve as a producer of architectural elements, nor is it any longer contained by the historical narratives that once determined its form. Sculpture as a contemporary practice is a condition of space - it is interactive and participatory and relationally claims no singular territory. Multidimensional in nature, sculpture in its most expanded form generates a nexus where narratives, materiality, and medium unfold, refold, and co-mingle in an indeterminate social and cultural arena. SculptureX3 will focus upon sculpture's emerging identity in the age of post-media. Free and open to the public.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 2012
Cleveland Institute of Art
Joseph McCullough Building
11601 Euclid Ave, Cleveland

9:00 AM	Registration opens
9:45	Welcome by Ann Albano, Executive Director + Chief Curator, The Sculpture Center, and Barry Underwood, Chair of Sculpture, Cleveland Institute of Art
10:00	Mel Chin, Keynote Speaker
11:00	Coffee Break
11:15	Sculpture Speed Dating for MFA students and 2012 MFA graduates
11:45 - 1:00 PM	Lunch at CIA
1:15 - 3:00	Afternoon Consecutive Panels 1:15 - 2:00 PM Post Studio Production, Situated (Rhetorical) Practices Panel Moderator: Dan Tranberg, artist, critic, author, and Cleveland Institute of Art adjunct professor of painting Panelist: Lisa Austin, professor, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, + TBD 2:15 - 3:00 Social sculpture, critical practices, and relational aesthetics Panel Moderator: Reto Thuring, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Cleveland Museum of Art Panelists: Navjotika Kumar, Assistant Professor of Art History, Kent State University                    Sarah Paul, Assistant Professor & Chair of T.I.M.E. - Digital Arts, CIA
3:00 - 3:30	Closing summary remarks by David Norr, Chief Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland
4:00	Reception at The Sculpture Center, 1834 E. 123 St., Cleveland Exhibitions on view: Procession: Song for the Underground Railroad, a new installation by Johnny Coleman, Oberlin College head of the art department and African-American studies professor.

This symposium, a program of SculptureX, is generously sponsored by the Cleveland Institute of Art; The Cleveland Museum of Art, David Franklin, Director, The Sarah S. and Alexander M. Cutler Chair; The Contemporary Art Society of the Cleveland Museum of Art; Edinboro University Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs, Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Art Department, and Art Department Graduate Committee; the School of Art at Kent State University; and The Sculpture Center. This Sculpture Center educational program is also supported by the Kulas Foundation and the John P. Murphy Foundation and receives public funding from the Ohio Arts Council and Cuyahoga Arts and Culture.

MFA STUDENTS AND RECENT GRADS: SCULPTURE SPEED DATING WILL TAKE PLACE AGAIN THIS YEAR. SEND IN YOUR WORK NOW.
The MFA Sculpture Speed Dating session is a juried event at SculptureX Symposium #3 providing 10 current or recent MFA graduates (spring 2012) from our greater region (OH, MI, IN, KY, WVA, western PA, western NY, and Ontario, CN) an opportunity to give a 2 minute presentation of his or her work. Contact the Speed Dating Chair Angie Seykora, Edinboro University of PA MFA student, to apply. If you want to get involved with organizing this student run session, let Angie know.
SCULPTURE SPEED DATING CLOSED
BEHIND THE SCENES TOUR OF THE BRAND NEW MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART CLEVELAND is available the evening before, October 19 @ 5 PM, for 20 people. Sign up here with the number of people, email, and phone number. If you'd like to stay on at MOCA Cleveland for an evening of music, Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR): Gilgamesh on the Crooked River, buy tickets here.
MOCA TOUR CLOSED
about the artist Mel Chin

Mel Chin was born in Houston, Texas in 1951. Chin's art, which is both analytical and poetic, evades easy classification. He is known for the broad range of approaches in his art, including works that require multi-disciplinary, collaborative teamwork and works that conjoin cross-cultural aesthetics with complex ideas. Chin also insinuates art into unlikely places, including destroyed homes, toxic landfills, and even popular television, investigating how art can provoke greater social awareness and responsibility. His projects are consistent with a conceptual philosophy, which emphasizes the practice of art to include sculpting and bridging natural and social ecology. Chin's work was documented in the popular PBS program, Art of the 21st Century, and he has received numerous awards and grants. Mel Chin, Cabinet of Craving, (2012), white oak, antique bone ware, steel, pigmented dye, shellac, 9 x 14 x 14 ft. Image courtesy of the artist.

Mel Chin, The Funk & Wag from A to Z, (2012), printed paper from The Universal Standard Encyclopedia, archival water-based glue, paper, 524 collages, varying from 8 x 11 in. to 17 x 23 in. installation variable. Image courtesy of the artist. Mel Chin, Shape of a Lie, (2005), bronze, catlinite (Native American pipestone), 70 x 29 x 54 in. Image courtesy of the artist.

above images and text recopied from the Sculpture Center website.