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Cre ative Arts 2013 –2014 MONROE COMMUNITY COLLEGE –Proverb Beauty without grace is a violet without smell. 1 General Items Welcome to another special season of creative arts programming at Monroe Table of Contents Community College. We invite you, your family, and your friends to come Mercer Gallery ………………… 4 and enjoy the rich cultural experiences that these Art Exhibitions ………………… 8 events provide. Members of the Rochester community Music ………………………… 10 are always welcome at MCC events. Metered parking Theatre ……………………… 12 along Lot F is available for daytime events and reserved Prose & Poetry ……………… 16 parking is available in designated parking lots for The Sixth Act ………………… 18 evening programs. Tickets for specified programs are available online at www. monroecctickets.com; at the Brighton Campus Center Service Desk in the R. Thomas Flynn Campus Center, Building 3; or at the Damon City Campus Bookstore. For further information, call the Office of Student Life and Leadership Development at 585.292.2534. The primary mission of MCC’s Creative Arts Committee is to develop a student-centered learning initiative that combines a holistic approach to the arts with the educational mission of our institution. The Creative Arts Committee Members are Susan Baker, Maria Brandt, Janet Ekis, Kathleen Farrell, Roland Fisher, Rebecca Herzog, Tony Leuzzi, Larry Mandelker, and John Nyerges. –Wieland Background images from the Library of Congress archives. 2A single moment may “transform everything.” of Note… To reach the MCC Brighton Campus from Mercer Gallery General Notes The West (Buffalo): Take Thruway 90 east to exit For more information about Mercer Gallery 46; take 390 north to exit 16, the second East events, proposal applications, up-to-date Internal Henrietta Rd. (Rt. 15A) exit; turn left and continue Combustion Events, Workshops, and Mystery Video south on 15A for about 1/2 mile to the main schedules please call, write, or stop by the gallery. campus entrance. Kathleen Farrell, Gallery Director The East (Syracuse): Take Thruway 90 west to exit Mercer Gallery Hours: 46 and proceed as above. Monday–Thursday: 11:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m. South (Geneseo): Take 390 north to exit 16, the Friday: 11:00 a.m.–4:00 p.m. second East Henrietta Rd., exit and proceed as Vacation Hours: Tuesday–Thursday 11 a.m.–2:00 p.m. above. Brockport/Spencerport: Take Route 531 Other times by appointment. east to 490 east and then to 390 south; take exit Phone: 585.292.2021/585.292.3121 16B (East Henrietta Rd.–Rt. 15A); turn right and Fax: 585.292.3120 proceed for about 1/2 mile to the main campus. E-mail: [email protected] Visit www.monroecc.edu/go/maps www.monroecc.edu/go/mercer/ The Mercer Gallery is located in the Fine Arts Building 12 in the North Atrium on the Brighton Campus. This non- profi t gallery is sponsored in part by Monroe Community College, the MCC Visual and Performing Art Department, the Offi ce of Student Life and Leadership Development, the MCC Creative Arts Committee, the MCC Student Art Organization, and the MCC Student Life Fee. The Mercer Gallery is a member of the SUNY Association of Museums and Galleries, Association of Academic Museums and Galleries (AAMG), the American Association of Museums, and the Mid-Atlantic Association of Museums. 3 Chris Mostyn and Rick Nickel Alumni Show September 6–October 4, 2013 Opening Reception and Gallery Talk: Homecoming Weekend Saturday, Septem- ber 21 at 2 p.m. in the Mercer Gallery Rochester native Chris Mostyn states, “I was always drawing. I was a creative kid for as long as I can remember. Drawing was a constant companion. It was during my tenure at Monroe Community College that my teachers instilled in me the love of keeping sketchbooks, not merely as a place to develop new ideas for future works of art but as a record of my life. I attended MCC from 1987–1990. I studied graphic design and then switched to illustration. I have worked as a designer and illustrator for newspapers and magazines, and was the designer and storyboard artist for the critically reviewed Apple app Plug and the Paddywhacks. I have shown in galleries around the country and in Hamburg Germany. I currently teach art at a middle school in Missouri and draw monsters for tee shirts. I am who I am and can’t thank my teachers enough for giving me the tools.” Chris Mostyn <http://chrismostyn.com> Top and middle: Chris Mostyn Mercer Gallery Bottom: Rick Nickel 4 Rochester native Richard Nickel attended MCC in the early 90’s, received a BS in Art Education from SUNY Buffalo in 1996 and an MFA in Ceramics in 2000 from Edinboro University. He began teaching Art Education & Ceramics in North Dakota in 2000. In 2002, he began teaching at Old Ken Martin Sculpture Dominion University as the Art Education October 11–November 8, 2013 Program Director and the Ceramics Gallery Talk: Friday, October 11, 12:00 p.m. Program Director. He started the Saturday Opening Reception: Friday, October 11, 7:00–9:00 p.m. Morning Art Classes in 2003. With Mennonite roots, Kenneth Martin grew Richard is an active artist and educator up in Toledo, Ohio. He made two excursions to and has been published in several Lark Europe in the 1970s that led to extended stays in books on ceramics, 500 Tiles: An Inspiring Arles, Antibes, Amiens, Paris, France and in Ghent, Collection of International Work, 500 Belgium. Immediately on returning to the United Animals In Clay, 500 Figures in Clay and States, he found employment as a roust-a-bout with 500 Bowls. His juried and invitational shows include: Tablets: text and Image, the “Clyde Beaty and Cole Brothers Circus”. He Ink And Clay, Forms & Shapes: Inspired by studied furniture making and design with Wendell Architecture at Akar Gallery, The George Castle in Scottsville, New York and began to exhibit Ohr National Arts Challenge: Paul Soldner sculpture in Rochester, New York City and later in The Ohr-O’Keefe Museum of Art, and he Baltimore. Skills in fabrication and sensitivity for has been also awarded several research aesthetic arrangement made it possible for him to grants in Education and Ceramics, the gain employment in museum exhibition work. He Faculty Innovator Grant, and an ODU worked in the exhibition department at the Margaret Summer Research Fellowship. Woodbury Strong Museum in Rochester, N.Y. and at the National Aquarium in Baltimore. Martin received his B.S. from Ohio University and an MFA from the University of Maryland. He is a faculty member of the Interdisciplinary Sculpture Department at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and is currently Interim Chair of the department. 5 classes at his alma mater and found that these studies became the perfect compliment to his architecture. In 1985 he travelled to California and felt at home. He returned in 1986 to stay. This proved to be more difficult than originally thought. Working as an architect was nearly impossible since he did not have a license. After trying many different jobs in California, he moved to Arizona and later to New Mexico. He worked with various companies there Luis Alberto Decurgez November 15–December 14, 2013 on murals mixed with colored cement, a technique he came up with several years earlier. He decided Gallery Talk: Friday, November 15, 12:00 p.m. to move to Central America where he found some Opening Reception: Friday, November 15, 7:00–9:00 p.m. interest in his work. In 1995, he presented his In 1937, Luis Alberto Decurgez was born in a small work for a competition in Guatemala City. A major town of Jachal, San Juan—a province located on the bank was proposing a sculpture outside of their western part of Argentina, a largely mountainous establishment. He won the contest and the option region with scarce vegetation, turbulent rivers, and of executing the piece himself. Stainless steel with a some important paleontological sites. cement base, this piece stands in front of the bank In 1944, a devastating earthquake destroyed much of on Main St. in Guatemala City. He worked there the city and killed 10,000 people. Luis and his family until 1999 making a modest number of sculptures in were out of town, on vacation. His father Alejandro cement, copper, steel, for the private sector. moved the family to the neighboring province of In the year 2000 he decided to come back to the Mendoza where the artist would spend much of his US and concentrate his efforts on painting. He lives childhood and adult life. The University of Mendoza- in Southern California where he continues to paint School of Architecture is where he submitted every day. His work has been exhibited recently at applications without his parent's consent. He the Museum of History and Art of Ontario, California. graduated at the age of 30 after winning University According to the artist, “Analyzing my work and awards and recognitions. One of these award- being honest, I must say that it has two sides. One is winning sculptures is at the University to this day. the side showing the works by copying or imitation, During his architectural career he was confronted using texture and color techniques, as they appear in with frustration and the harsh reality that clients the model. Surely the mountains and The Andes had, didn't always see what he saw. This is when painting and still do have, a profound impact on my being, and sculpting became his refuge. He began taking since that is where I was and for many years I lived surrounded by this nature and topography.” 6 “It is a mere and–Bacon miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness.” 7 GOOD WORK: The Illustration Art Invitational Belinda Bryce and Kurt Ketchum Jan.