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NW Art Center Fall Ceramics Exhibits

Presented by MSU Northwest Art Center at Harnett Hall Gallery

September 28-October 26, 2011

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NORTHWEST ART CENTER GALLERIES

COMBINE CERAMICS AND DRUMMING

FOR ART ‘HAPPENING’

 

 

Two artists will join forces October 21 to celebrate their fall exhibitions at the Northwest Art Center with a public reception featuring art, music, fire, food and—hopefully—lively discussion about art.

 

The reception for the painting and ceramics exhibitions of Alexandra Jelleberg, Beulah, ND and Michele McKamy, Minot, will be Friday, October 21, from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., beginning at the Gordon B. Olson Library Gallery, Minot State University, and concluding at the nearby Hartnett Hall Gallery.

 

Jelleberg’s Bachelor of Fine Arts Capstone Exhibition of ceramic sculpture and paintings will be on display September 28 through October 26 at the Library Gallery. McKamy’s exhibition, “Walk as a Woman: The Resurrected Treasures” includes mixed media ceramics, drawings and paintings and will run October 17 through November 23 in the Hartnett Hall Gallery.

 

The two have worked together closely in classes at the MSU Art Department, and arranged a pairing of their solo exhibitions and a joint reception for the shows “to celebrate the culmination of their shared undergraduate experiences.”

 

The reception will include a gallery talk by Jelleberg at 6:00 p.m. in the library gallery; and a presentation by McKamy at 7:15 in the Hartnett gallery. As guests move from the library to Hartnett Hall, they will be invited to participate in a torch-lit “art happening” in front of Swain Hall, with drum music provided by the MSU Percussion Ensemble.

 

“It will be a sort of modern tribal ritual,” said Avis Veikley, director of the Percussion Ensemble. Guests will receive a small piece of pottery, and will be asked to smash it on the ground, to the accompaniment of the drumming.

 

“It’s intended to be a symbol of letting go, of completing or finishing something,” explains Veikley. “For the artists, it is a symbol of finishing their university art studies. For the audience, it can be a symbol for anything in their life they would like to change or finish.”

 

The exhibitions and reception are free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served. Both artists encourage involvement of guests and “welcome questions and interaction from all.”

This project is funded in part by a grant from the North Dakota Council on the Arts, which receives funding from the state legislature and the National Endowment for the Arts. For more information about Northwest Art Center activities, call 701-858-3264.