Towson University Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education presents
Exhibition
Center for the Arts Gallery
On view: February 8 – April 6, 2013
Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Saturday, 11 a.m. – 4 p.m.
Opening Reception: Thursday, February 7, 2013, 7:30 – 9 p.m.
The Department of Art + Design, Art History, Art Education is pleased to present an exhibition and related programming that examines artists’ responses to nature. Many artists today look at nature through the eyes of climate change, toxic pollution, or overdevelopment. Still others engage art historically, operating out of a landscape painting tradition. This exhibition brings together installation, video, photography, painting, and sculpture to examine the myriad ways that artists interact with nature. Artists whose works will be on display in this exhibition include: Anne Appleby, Vaughn Bell, Susan Benarcik, Randy Bolton, Ann Chahbandour, Caitlin Cunningham, Annette Davidek, Adam Davies, Elizabeth Demaray, Madeleine Dietz, Laurie Hogin, Dan Jackson, Guy Loraine, Rachel Rotenberg, Bill Scott, Kate Stewart, Ted Walsh and Ben Whitehouse.
Lecture by artist Ben Whitehouse:
Towards a New Landscape
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, February 7, 2013, 6:30 p.m.
Lecture by artist Elizabeth Demaray:
Art and Science Collaboration
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, February 21, 6:30 p.m.
Lecture by art historian Dr. Nancy Siegel:
Encountering Nature: Environmental Awareness in American Art
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Thursday, April 4, 6:30 p.m.
Symposium
Center for the Arts, Art Lecture Hall, Room 2032
Friday, April 5, 2013 10 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
Artists Ann Chahbandour and Adam Davies, whose works are included in the exhibition
Encountering Nature in the Center for the Arts Gallery, along with Towson University
scientists Steven M. Lev, Professor of Geosciences Department of Physics, Astronomy
and Geosciences and Graduate Director of the Environmental Science Program and
Joel W. Snodgrass, Professor of Conservation Biology and Chairperson of the Department of Biological Sciences will present illustrated lectures and then answer questions presented by a moderator and the audience. Moderator: J. Susan Isaacs, Professor of Art History and Director of the M.A. in Professional Studies/Art History focus and curator of the Encountering Nature exhibition. A performance by artist Vaughn Bell will take place in the gallery immediately following the symposium. Professor Isaacs will offer a tour of the exhibition following the performance.
All events are free and open to the public.
Information: 410-704-2808 · www.towson.edu/artscalendar
The exhibition is supported in part by the Maryland State Arts Council. The
symposium is supported in part by the Department of Biological Sciences.
