Ringgold, most known for her painted story quilts, has works in the permanent collections of many museums including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art.  She has received innumerable awards including twenty two honorary doctorates. She is a devoted advocate for art education and has illustrated sixteen children’s books, eleven of which she also authored. Other jurors include New Jersey artist and educator Aylin Green; Baltimore-based sculptor and fine artist Christine Tillman; painter and director of Art Collaborations in Princeton Heather Barros; and TCNJ Gallery Director Emily Croll.

Art, Innovation, and Ideas is intended to connect student learning and art to current real world issues. It aims to exhibit meaningful two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and media artworks and to recognize efforts by New Jersey art educators to push the boundaries of the arts in K-12 schools. Dr. LaJevic comments, “As the world is changing, it is vital that arts pedagogy and curriculum reflects the world in which we live. As such, I support innovative art making that connects student learning and art to the real world, academic subjects, social issues, big ideas, and/or contemporary art.”

The art submissions, which were received from more than 100 cities and towns across the state, will be reviewed based on the following criteria: student creativity; concept behind the work; ability to communicate an important message, story, or thought; and innovation. Preference will be given to artworks that challenge the traditional boundaries of the visual arts in K-12 schools and fulfill the mission of the exhibition to connect student learning to real life.

Faith Ringgold

Faith Ringgold began her artistic career in the early 1960s as a painter. Today, she is best known for her painted story quilts — art that combines painting on quilted canvas, and storytelling– and her illustrated children’s books. Her first book, Tar Beach, was a Caldecott Honor Book and winner of the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration, among numerous other honors. She currently lives in Englewood, New Jersey and is Professor Emeriti at the University of California in San Diego. She is married to Burdette Ringgold and has two daughters, Michele and Barbara Wallace; and three granddaughters, Faith, Theodora and Martha. Ringgold is represented by Dorian and Jeff Bergen at ACA Galleries in New York City.

Aylin Green

Currently the Membership Director at Grounds for Sculpture in Hamilton, NJ where she has worked since 2001, Aylin Green holds a Masters of Ed from Tufts University in Boston, MA, and a BFA in Sculpture from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University. Aylin has exhibited her mixed media paintings and cast metal sculpture at galleries and art centers throughout the region including Philadelphia, Princeton, and Trenton. As an educator, she has taught classes for adults and children in a variety of media from experimental to traditional and in a range of educational settings including private studios, city and county programs, public schools, and art centers. Aylin is a resident of Lambertville, NJ.

Christine Tillman

Christine Tillman is primarily a very flat sculptor who draws more often than she makes sculptures. Her main interests as an artist lie in ideas surrounding the handmade, celebrations, and man-made interpretations of natural forms. Tillman earned her MFA in Painting and Drawing from the University of Iowa and lives and works in Baltimore, MD. She is a member of the Drawing Center Viewing Program, Transformer Flatfile, and received a 2010 Maryland State Arts Council Grant for her Works on Paper. She is a member of the Upper School Faculty at the Park School of Baltimore.

Heather Barros

Heather Barros directs Art Collaborations, an art school in Princeton offering year-round classes for children, teens and adults. Heather began teaching children at the Arts Council of Princeton in 1990.  She directed art programs and summer art camps at the Arts Council, Montgomery Cultural Center, Charter School of Princeton, and now with Art Collaborations. Heather studied oil painting with Gregory Perkel for ten years.  She paints every day, en plein air every week.

“I’ve visited art museums around the world and I’ve seen some of the greatest art ever made, but children’s art work is still my favorite genre.  I once thought that if I surrounded myself with children’s art long enough that I could do it as well.  I’m not even close.”

The BFA seniors in the exhibition are Ryan Beebe, Kristin Blair, Bryan Borut, Anthony Chin, Kyle Czepiel, Ryan Czepiel, Kara Degeorgis, Johann Derflinger, Shannon Ehrola, Casey Gallagher, Liz Gerger, Ryan Janelli, Pam Marotte, Sam Prowse, Josh Sender, and Liz Swezey.

For more information, please visit www.tcnjthirteen.com.

David Rago and Suzanne Perrault are featured appraisers on the hit PBS series Antiques Roadshow, where they specialize in appraising decorative ceramics and porcelain. The pair has appeared at major art shows and conferences across the country, and they have both published a number of works in their fields. Mr. Rago, a TCNJ alumnus, is the founder of the Rago Arts and Auction Center, the largest and leading auction house in New Jersey, which also serves as a venue for private sale and appraisal. Ms. Perrault heads the Rago Arts and Auction Centers Cataloguing Department and co-directs its sales of 20^th/21^st Century Design. Together, the two have also opened the Perrault-Rago Gallery and co-authored the book Miller’s American Art Pottery: Treasure or Not? among other collaborative publications.

This lecture, the ninth event in the TNCJ’s spring Brown Bag series, is held in conjunction with the College Art Gallery’s current featured exhibition, Value Added: Artists’ Perspectives on the Meaning of Worth, a collection of multimedia artworks and installations that explore concepts of worth and valuation. This exhibition will be open following the April 12 lecture and will remain on view through April 18 during regular gallery hours.

Artist Talks, Wednesday, May 1, 3:00-5:00 p.m.

Exhibition Reception and Portfolio Review, Sunday, May 5th 12:00-3:00 p.m.

2012 Senior BFA Exhibition Enlarged to Show Texture

The exhibition will focus on both the student and art teacher; therefore, the submission and nomination process must be completed by the art teacher. The show aims to exhibit meaningful two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and media artworks and to recognize efforts by New Jersey art educators to push the boundaries of the arts in K-12 schools.

Key Dates

• Submissions due: Friday, April 5, 2013
• Notification of acceptance: May 10, 2013
• Drop off accepted artwork at Art Gallery: Thursday, May 23, 12 – 6 p.m. and Friday, May 24 12–6 p.m.
• Exhibition opening: Sunday, June 2, 2013, 1–3 p.m. (Please note: the opening time has changed.)
• Art show: June 2-23, 2013
• Pick up artworks: Sunday, June 23, 3–6 p.m. or Monday, June 24, 12– 6 p.m.

Exhibition Jurors

Faith Ringgold
Heather Barros
Aylin Green
Christine Tillman

Eligibility

• Student artwork must be nominated and submitted by a New Jersey art teacher.
• Each art teacher may nominate up to 3 students.
• Only one artwork may be submitted per student.
• Entries must be original, produced in a K-12 art classroom, and showcase a unique lesson designed by an art teacher.

Requirements/Conditions

• 2-D, 3-D, and media artworks may be submitted.
• All art materials are welcome, including digital works.
• 2-D artworks (paintings, drawings, photographs, prints, etc.) must be framed and ready for hanging.
• 3-D and media works must be prepared for display in TCNJ’s art gallery. Works may be disqualified if they present difficulties in installation or presentation.
• Media/video works should not exceed 5 minutes in running time.
• Collaborative artworks are welcome however each student can only be submitted once (as either part of a group or individual)

Submission of Art Work

• Please email a digital image of the student artwork, submission form, and contact information to tcag@tcnj.edu.
• The email subject heading should be “TCNJ K-12 Student Art Show.”
• Please include the following contact information in the body of the email: your name (i.e., art teacher’s name); school name; school address; email address; phone number; lesson title; student’s name; student’s grade level
• Both the image and submission form should be sent as an attachment.
• Include only one submission/student nomination per email

Value Added: Artists’ Perspectives on the Meaning of Worth is an exhibition of multimedia artworks and installations that explore concepts of worth and valuation. The exhibition examines differing values that exist within contemporary society—monetary systems, precious materials, proprietary rights, and status symbols—as well as the transformation of mere signs of worth into metaphors that reference the personal, the political, and the poetic. Artists in the exhibition include Melissa Brown, Katie Creyts, Pete Driessen, David Hammons, Heather Hart, Christian Jankowski, Caitlin Karolczak, Christina Kelly, Richard Knox, Michael Landy, Mark Lombardi, Eric Lunde, Esperanza Mayobre, Tim Portlock, Martha Rosler, Yumi Janairo Roth, Sebastiao Salgado, Peter Simensky, Nari Ward, and Caroline Woolard.

Christina Kelly, Pay Dirt, 2009, installation with shredded currency, compost pile and drawings, dimensions variable

Peter Simensky, Neutral Capital Collection II, 2007, portable art collection and gallery in collapsible shipping crate

]]> http://tcnjartgallery.pages.tcnj.edu/2013/03/22/value-added-artists-perspectives-on-the-meaning-of-worth/feed/ 0 http://tcnjartgallery.pages.tcnj.edu/2013/01/23/fear-and-folly-the-visionary-prints-of-francisco-goya-and-federico-castellon/ http://tcnjartgallery.pages.tcnj.edu/2013/01/23/fear-and-folly-the-visionary-prints-of-francisco-goya-and-federico-castellon/#comments Wed, 23 Jan 2013 19:09:07 +0000 Web Administrator http://tcnjartgallery.pages.tcnj.edu/?p=1642 January 23 to March 7, 2013

Fear and Folly: The Visionary Prints of Francisco Goya and Federico Castellon presents thirty-eight prints from two major print series: Goya’s etchings from Los Disparates and Castellon’s lithographs for Edgar Allen Poe’s The Masque of the Red Death. Though separated by about 150 years, Goya (1746–1828) and Castellon (1914–1971) often appear closer to one another than to their contemporaries. In these print series each artist explores the human condition through images that are both beautiful and disturbing. This exhibition is organized by the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan.

Francisco Goya, Fearful Folly from Los Disparates, c. 1812-20, etching and aquatint, collection of the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts

A survey of Indian paintings from the time of the country’s independence in the late 1940s to the present, borrowed from the private collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin. The exhibition is being presented in conjunction with a daylong symposium on contemporary Indian culture, including a performance by Abhijit Banerjee and Tarang on Friday, October 19.

Seema Kohli

Untitled, 2007

Mixed medial on canvas, 46 x 70 in.

Private collection of Shelley and Donald Rubin

This program is presented in association with The Fertile Crescent, a program of the Rutgers Institute for Women and Art.