Schedule


Fall 2008: October 6 - November 27, 2008


"Faculty Review/Preview"

Vassdal-Ellis

©Vassdal-Ellis, Medieval Bindings

 Poco Sangre
©Cara Jaye, Poco Sangre
 Bullet Cloth
©Seiko A. Purdue, Bullet Cloth
#7 Obra-Negra-Toilette
©Garth Amundson, Pierre Gour, Obra Negra No. 7 - Toilette, pigment print

Department of Art faculty in areas of studio and design present a selection of works exploring contemporary attitudes and individual areas of research in conjunction with traditional and new media. Concepts worked out in their studios most often enjoy an exhibition presence beyond Western. This is an opportunity to catch up with each faculty member's developments, whether an ongoing series or preliminary studies for different concerns. The exhibition will also showcase new faculty in the department.

Wed. Oct. 22nd, Noon Hour Lecture
Garth Amundsun, "Sub-divisioins: Immigrataion, Identity and Mexico. Fulbright Recollections"



Winter 2009: January 20 - March 14, 2009


"Ken Butler: Hybrid Visions"

Machine Gun Violin
©Ken Butler, Machine Gun Violin Brown #2		 Metal-detector-Cello
©Ken Butler, Metal Detector Cello		 Turntable-Guitar
©Ken Butler, Turntable Guitar

Ken Butler - born and raised in Portland, Oregon - is a highly regarded mixed media artist, instrument builder, composer and musician whose hybrid musical instruments, installations, and performances explore the interaction and transformation of common objects, sounds, and silence.

Butler has commented: "The initial motivation for making my hybrids had very little to do with the idea of expanding the range of musical instruments. It was much more about a sculptural investigation and, to this day, remains more about the visual and poetic character of the instruments. There is something about using whatever is at hand, ...and assembling them in references to head-neck-body shapes that resonates with me."

Since the late 1980s when he moved to New York, Butler has performed at world-wide sites as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, as well as PBS and NBC's Tonight Show with Jay Leno. He has been described as "...Duchampian Dada meets hybrid Hindu Hendrix" and "...Kurt Schwitters meets Rube Goldberg meets Laurie Anderson meets Miles Davis."

TBA: Performance and children's workshop

Organized by the Hallie Ford Museum of Art at Willamette University and the Art Gym at Marylhurst University, Butler: Hybrid Visions has been supported in part by grants from the City of Salem's Transit Occupancy Tax funds and the Oregon Arts Commission.


Winter-Spring 2009: March 14 - 21, March 30 - April 3


"Selections from the Al and Vera Leese Collection"

Students in Exhibition Theory and Practice Seminar (AH490) create a theme and select work from the Al and Vera Leese Collection.




Spring 2009: April 13 - May 30, 2009


"Michael Vanderbyl Design"

Since its establishment in San Francisco in 1973, Vanderbyl Design has evolved into an internationally prominent, multidisciplinary studio. Michael Vanderbyl's showroom design for Teknion in Chicago, his Cambridge chair for HBF, and his home textiles for Esprit are just a few of his award-- winning projects. His client list includes, among numerous others, Walt Disney, IBM, Bernhardt Furniture, Mead Paper, California Conservation Corps, Windquest Racing Yacht, Napa Valley Vintners, COPIA- American Center for Wine, Food and the Arts, and the American Institute of Architects. Because he works with ease in both two and three dimensional design- crossing from graphic design to product design - his work was featured on the PBS series The Creative Mind.

His work has been exhibited worldwide, including at the Denver Art Museum (US Design: 1975-2000), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Museo Fortuny, Venice. In 1997 he was listed as one of I.D. magazine's top forty industrial designers and received the Lifetime Achievement in Product Design by the Pacific Design Center. In 2000, he received the highest honor awarded by the American Institute of Graphic Arts: the AIGA Medal. In 2006 the Southern California Chapter of the International Interior Design Association (IIDA) honored him with their Lifetime Achievement Award. Vanderbyl presides as dean of design at California College of the Arts.

TBA: Lecture by Vanderbyl during 2009 Scholar's Week.