Tarble Times Fall 2017
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TarbleTarble timestimes FALLFALL 20172016 Konnichiwa! Welcome to your Fall 2017 edition of the Tarble Times. It’s the beginning of yet another school year; and we at the Tarble are so excited about the array of programming that we have in store for you! As always, your issue of the Tarble general information Times has loads of information about our exhibitions, public programs, and classes. As we commence with our fall exhibitions and corresponding programs, the Tarble Exhibitions kicks off its latest visiting artist series, time and otherness. The perceived value of time and its correlation to otherness is an alluring, elusive, and transitory concept— especially as it relates to high and lowbrow culture. This year, we seek to examine Collections how visual artists, critics, and other arts professionals use a diverse array of media and methods to address this understanding of the construction or embodiment of time and otherness. programs From our new series Outside/Inside: the site-specific sculpture by Heather Hart, The Porch Project: Tarble Tables, located on the Tarble Triangle and Diana Al-Hadid’s education massive sculpture, Smokescreen, on display in the Tarble’s Atrium; to this year’s special exhibition Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Japanese Prints from the Taubman Museum of Art’s Permanent Collection; to our latest programs Tots 4 Tarble and Tarble Reads, Membership there’s plenty to do and see! And don’t forget our annual Member Preview pARTy on August 25th, which is going to be a kick-off to the fall season. The RSVP deadline for that event is August 18th. This fall, the Tarble will be a hub of activity. That will be evident in our latest addition to our building, of a new and improved classroom and a renovated collections lab; and as we host artists like Cream Co., Jiha Moon, and Ben Venom, among others. We’re continuing to develop new partnerships on-and off-campus and strengthening existing collaborations. We’re taking the arts to the people of Charleston and beyond each and every day, so make sure you stop by to see and participate in all that we have to offer! And as always, if there is a suggestion you have; something you’ve seen; or feedback about a Tarble program, please do let us know. Ever Looking Forward, Rehema C. Barber Director and Chief Curator STAFF ADVISORY BOARD Rehema C. Barber Dorothy Bennett Director and Chief Curator President Kit Morice Katrina Butler Curator of Education Vice President Mike Schuetz Lauri DeRuiter-Willems Assistant Director Secretary John Armstrong Rehema Barber (ex-officio) STUDENT STAFF Marilyn Coles Jay D. Gatrell (ex-officio) TAKING THE Tia Allen Beth Heldebrandt Grace Ayiwah Fosu Alphonso (Al) Joyner ARTS TO THE PEOPLE Megan Haley Bruce Karmazin Taylor Hathcoat Chris Kahler (ex-officio) OF”CENTRAL ILLINOIS Kaen Henry Karen Littleford AnTar Johnson Kit Morice (ex-officio) AND:BEYOND... Grace O’Brien Michael Murray Bailey Olsen Mike Schuetz (ex-officio) Abigail Perkins Anita Shelton (ex-officio) Alyssa Tillmon Angelica Villanueva Jalen Washington Heidi Zenisek WHO W OUR PARTNERS E AR E 1 AUGUST SEPTEMBER OCTOBER 18 | Fri 8 | Fri 3 | Tue Deadline to register for TARBLE TRIPS: TOTS 4 TARBLE Jr. -Sr. High Art Explorations Program: Japanese Tasting and Culture Fest Ben Venom begins 13 | Wed Deadline to RSVP to Member Preview A.L.L. Gallery Talk: Jenny Chi, Adventures in Art begins pARTy Ann Coddington, & Chris Kahler 4 | Wed 25 | Fri 16 | Sat Explorations in Art begins Member Preview pARTy Family Weekend Art Extravaganza 5 | Thu 26 | Sat 18 | Mon JAPAN-A-MANIA: Tsukioka Yoshitoshi: Japanese Prints Deadline to register for Relief Prints Tarble Atrium Cinema from the Taubman Museum of Art’s Workshop The Hidden Fortress (NR, 1958) Permanent Collection opens 19 | Tue 5 | Thu Ben Venom: No More Mr. Nice Guy Exploring Sculpture and More begins opens Curator’s Conversation: Ben Venom & Mike Schuetz 2017 Art & Design Faculty Biennial 6 | Fri opens 21 | Thu JAPAN-A-MANIA: ALL: Learning across the Lifespan Tarble Atrium Cinema for Teens Legend of the Millenium Dragon 27 | Sun (PG-13, 2011) TARBLE TRIPS Tarble Tables Trivia Japanese Tasting and Culture Fest 22 | Fri 7 | Sat NDAR 29 | Tue Deadline to register for Classes & JAPAN-A-MANIA: E Workshops for Homeschooled Youths Tarble Atrium Cinema Kids’ Matinee TARBLE TALKBACK Kubo and the Two Strings (PG, 2016) Speed Friending AL 23 | Sat C Relief Prints Workshop 9 | Mon Tarble Reads: Kokoro by Natsume Soseki 27 | Wed Arts in Autumn Dinner FALL FALL 29 | Fri Deadline to register for Classes & Workshops for Children Homeschool Art Classes begin 2 OCTOBER NOVEMBER DECEMBER CONTINUED... 13 | Fri 10 | Fri 8 | Fri TOTS 4 TARBLE TOTS 4 TARBLE TOTS 4 TARBLE 16 | Mon 13 | Mon 14 | Thu Deadline to register for Scrap Quilting Arts-in-Education Artist Residency with AIE Residency Reception Fun with Deborah Fell Chris Cohoon begins 17 | Tue 16 | Thu Public Lecture: Dr. Robert Petersen Gallery Talk: Jiha Moon 26 | Thu 16 | Thu TARBLE AFTER HOURS Member Preview Harry Potter PARTY 18 | Sat 28 | Sat Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Scrap Quilting Fun with Deborah Fell Everyone’s Mad Here opens Chris Cohoon: In All Around I See opens Cream Co.: Living Room opens FALL FALL 29 | Wed Camille Campo Memorial Lecture: Dr. Marne Austin C AL Programming Key: General JANUARY E Exhibition 2018 NDAR Education Members 18 | Thu Public Lecture: Cream Co. 23 | Tue Public Lecture: Chris Cohoon 3 MEET KAEN HENRY... What do you do at the Tarble? What is your favorite thing to do when you’re not working at the Tarble? I am officially a Graduate Assistant after having been an undergraduate student When I’m not working at Tarble, or worker for the past two years. I act as the on other design work, I like to relax Lead Graphic Designer at the Tarble, in at home with my girlfriend Kari-Ann, charge of designing the Tarble Times, our cat Sophie, some chips and salsa, postcards, gallery guides, Cultivating and Netflix. Creativity catalogs, posters, flyers, vinyl lettering, and more. I oversee a small What are you most looking forward to team of designers, while making sure this fall at the Tarble? everything that comes out of the Tarble stays consistent with our brand. I’m excited for all of the upcoming shows, but I’m especially excited for What do you enjoy the most about Living Room by Cream Co. Based on working at the Tarble? what I’ve seen of their work, I know that this show will bring something totally I love the work. Designing is my new and different to the Tarble. passion, and I enjoy the challenges that come with the projects. The experience I have gained during my time here is unparalleled. I also love the people here—the people you work with can really make or break a job, and I got really lucky. Who is your favorite artist and why? My favorite artist is the graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister. I’m always looking to his work and design philosophy for inspiration. He has such a broad range of work and styles, yet it all somehow seems to be recognizable as his own. STAFF SPOTLIGHT STAFF 4 The Tarble Arts Center (TAC) is a major arts resource for the people of Central Illiniois and Eastern Illinois University that primarily focuses on the visual arts. TAC presents exhibitions year-round featuring national and international artists. E XHIBITION S 5 Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, Heron Maiden (detail), 1898, Woodblock print Collection of the Taubman Museum of Art: The Peggy Macdowell Thomas Japanese Print Collection 1996.062 OUTSIDE: HEATHER HART OUTSIDE/ The Porch Project: Tarble Tables INSIDE Thru Spring 2018 Spring 2017-Fall 2018 Located on the Tarble Triangle, the site-specific work, The Porch Project: Tarble Tables is by New York-based artist, Heather Hart. Using a vast array of media, Last fall, we began a series Hart’s work focuses on communal participation, individual and collective identity, of bi-annual, long-term, site- memory, and representation. The installation of The Porch Project: Tarble Tables specific installations called sculpture presents a space that transforms according to each visitor’s frame of Outside/Inside that serve as reference and the activities taking place within it. The sculpture—inspired by a interventions in specific inner common architectural form—a porch, serves as both an entryway and a receiving and outer Tarble spaces, while space. The work, influenced by cognitive and mystical systems such as Robin also indicating that we are Dunbar’s Number theory and Sacred Geometry creates a network of porch-like a place of vibrant creativity. and pentagonal structures. Passersby are extended an invitation to enter The Porch Ultimately, we hope that these Project: Table Tables. As a result of the varying heights and unique shape of each site-specific projects will porch-like space, participants are not only asked to consider their positions on the encourage viewer engagement porch, but also the architectural form’s history, use and its impact upon their own and participation within lives. and outside of the Tarble’s exhibitions spaces. Heather Hart is a Brooklyn-based artist who has previously been an artist in residence at Skowhegan, LMCC Workspace, Franconia Sculpture Park, Fine Arts Work Center, and at the Whitney ISP. She received grants from Creative Capital, RELATED PROGRAMMING: the Joan Mitchell Foundation, Harpo Foundation, the Jerome Foundation, and a fellowship from NYFA, among many other awards. Her work has been included in TARBLE TALKBACK - a variety of publications such as Art in America, Art News, Hyperallergic, and The Speed Friending New York Times, among others.