Define Art
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The Savannah College of Art and Design showcases the School of Fine Arts with the inaugural deFINE ART festival. The mission of deFINE ART is to establish an annual fall festival highlighting the School of Fine Arts on par with the nationally recognized spring SCAD Style festival. deFINE ART seeks to celebrate the achievements and outstanding caliber of SCAD’s School of Fine Arts that is actively shaping and giving rise to new artistic expression, dialogue and innovation. Highlighted disciplines include painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics.
deFINE ART brings a broad range of noted art professionals, alumni and special guests to SCAD with the highly-anticipated Open Studios as the festival anchor. Nick Cave, Marilyn Minter, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Richard Vine are just a few of the acclaimed artists and professionals who will be performing, lecturing and exhibiting in Atlanta and Savannah at this year’s festival, Nov. 10-14.
The festival schedule is as follows:
deFINE ART brings a broad range of noted art professionals, alumni and special guests to SCAD with the highly-anticipated Open Studios as the festival anchor. Nick Cave, Marilyn Minter, Trenton Doyle Hancock and Richard Vine are just a few of the acclaimed artists and professionals who will be performing, lecturing and exhibiting in Atlanta and Savannah at this year’s festival, Nov. 10-14.
The festival schedule is as follows:
Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.Trustees Theater, 216 E. Broughton St.Marilyn Minter, Lecture Marilyn Minter has had numerous solo exhibitions around the world at such venues as the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and Salon 94, New York, among many others. Her work has also been displayed in the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Miami Art Museum, Miami; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and more. Madonna bought the artist's Green Pink Caviar video as a backdrop for her Sticky and Sweet tour, and MAC enlisted Minter to create images using the cosmetic firm's fall pigments. Minter also lent a film still of her now hallmark luscious pink lips with a protruding golden tongue for an exclusive tote bag available at Intermix, with proceeds going toward the breast and ovarian cancer nonprofit group Bright Pink. |  | |
Wednesday, Nov. 11, 7 p.m.Arnold Hall auditorium, 1810 Bull St.Trenton Doyle Hancock Bananas for Savannahs, Lecture Revered as one of the leading artists of his generation, Trenton Doyle Hancock will present a lecture providing a performative overview of his practice spanning prints, drawings and collaged felt paintings that together tell the story of the Mounds—a group of his imaginative mythical creatures. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal considerations—such as the use of color, language and pattern—into opportunities to create new characters, develop subplots, and convey symbolic meaning. Hancock earned a B.F.A. from Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas, and an M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is represented by the James Cohan Gallery, New York. |  | |
Thursday, Nov. 12, 7 p.m.Arnold Hall auditorium, 1810 Bull St.Richard Vine New China, New Art, Lecture Richard Vine is a senior editor at Art in America magazine. He holds a Ph.D. in literature from the University of Chicago and has served as editor-in-chief of the Chicago Review and of Dialogue: An Art Journal. He has taught at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, the New School for Social Research, New York University, and other institutions in the U.S. and abroad. His articles on art, literature and intellectual history have appeared in numerous journals, including Salmagundi, the Georgia Review, Tema Celeste, Modern Poetry Studies, and The New Criterion. Vine will speak about his most recent book, New China, New Art (Prestel, 2008), which covers avant-garde art in China from 1979 to the present. |  | |
Friday, Nov. 13, 1 p.m.River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.Lea Freid, Mark Hughes and Marcia Wood The New Art Economy, Panel Discussion Featuring noted gallery executives Lea Freid (partner, Lombard-Freid, New York), Mark Hughes (director, Galerie Lelong, New York) and Marcia Wood (executive director and owner, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta). Moderated by Steve Bliss, dean of the School of Fine Arts, this panel will address the necessary shifts and changes taking place in the commercial art world in the face of challenges posed by the new economy. | ||
Friday, Nov. 13, 3 p.m.River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.Michael Scoggins, Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke, and David Ellis The Big Apple Hustle, Panel Discussion Featuring SCAD alumnus Michael Scoggins and emerging New York-based artists, Mark Barrow and Sarah Parke, and David Ellis. Moderated by exhibitions coordinator Matthew Mascotte, this panel will discuss the strategies and practices they employ as emerging artists in New York City. | ||
Friday, Nov. 13, 7 p.m.Pinnacle Gallery, 320 E. Liberty St.Nene Humphrey, Circling the Center, Exhibition, Performance and Gallery Talk Performance featuring Humphrey and student, faculty, alumni and staff participants. Circling the Center uses the drum circle, one of the oldest forms of human communication, the craft of Victorian mourning braiding, and the sounds generated during the fabrication process as its conceptual underpinnings and physical structure. The exhibition showcases individual weavings made in the gallery by Humphrey, students, faculty and alumni that, combined, create a central structure of woven wire elements based on Victorian mourning braids. |  | |
Saturday, Nov. 14, 5-8 p.m.Alexander Hall, 668 Indian St., and River Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.Open Studio Night (featuring all School of Fine Arts departments) Open Studio Night features original works by SCAD students, faculty and alumni. The event showcases the best of SCAD painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. Artworks are available for purchase. Guests are invited to visit SCAD's studio spaces and experience hands-on demonstrations from students. | ||
Saturday, Nov. 14, 6-8 p.m.Adler Hall parking lot, 532 Indian St.Projection and Motion Paintings by David Ellis |  | |
Saturday, Nov. 14, 8-9 p.m.Hamilton Hall parking lot, 522 Indian St.Nick Cave A special multimedia performance of video, dance, spoken-word and music with SCAD students and community participants. Nick Cave is one of the most internationally acclaimed artists working today. Cave held a solo exhibition Cosmic Couturier in Spring 2009 at SCAD's Pinnacle Gallery in Savannah, which featured newly created Soundsuits and tondos by the artist, performer and designer. Suggestive of ceremonial garments, costume, haute couture and superhero disguise, Cave's Soundsuits, or performative wearable sculptures, are intricately ornamented with reclaimed fabric and found objects selected for their symbolism and auditory function. Densely layered in material and meaning, Cave's otherworldly creations will be performed by Cave, SCAD students and community members as part of the deFINE ART festival in what Cave calls "a spoken word, dance, DJ music extravaganza." He has had solo exhibitions at such venues as Jack Shainman Gallery, New York (2008); Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (currently); and Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy (forthcoming 2010), to name only a few. His work has been reviewed in The New York Times, Modern Painters, The Washington Post, Artforum, The New Yorker, and others. |  | |
Saturday, Nov. 14, 9 p.m.-midnightRiver Club, 3 Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.SCAD Alumni Bands and Performances
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Tuesday, Nov. 10, 7 p.m.SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.Trenton Doyle Hancock Bananas for Savannahs, Lecture Revered as one of the leading artists of his generation, Trenton Doyle Hancock will present a lecture providing a performative overview of his practice spanning prints, drawings and collaged felt paintings that together tell the story of the Mounds—a group of his imaginative mythical creatures. Influenced by the history of painting, especially Abstract Expressionism, Hancock transforms traditionally formal considerations—such as the use of color, language and pattern—into opportunities to create new characters, develop subplots, and convey symbolic meaning. Hancock earned a B.F.A. from Texas A&M University, Commerce, Texas, and an M.F.A. from the Tyler School of Art at Temple University, Philadelphia. He is represented by the James Cohan Gallery, New York. | | |
Thursday, Nov. 12, 2 p.m.SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.Spatial Relations: Recent Editions from Pace Prints A public discussion between SCAD Printmaking Chair Robert Brown and Pace Prints Director Jeremy Dine. | ||
Thursday, Nov. 12, 6-8 p.m.The Hub, SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.Projection and Motion Paintings by David Ellis | ||
Thursday, Nov. 12, 7-9 p.m.SCAD Atlanta, 1600 Peachtree St.Open Studio Night Open Studio Night features original works by SCAD students, faculty and alumni. The event showcases the best of SCAD painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and ceramics. Artworks are available for purchase. Guests are invited to visit SCAD's studio spaces and experience hands-on demonstrations from students. |
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Events
Hong Kong Interest Meeting in Savannah for Current Students
Feb. 12, 2010
Hong Kong Interest Meeting in Atlanta for Current Students
Feb. 12, 2010
Portfolio Preparation Presentations
Feb. 20, 2010
SCAD Atlanta Day for Juniors
Feb. 27, 2010
News
- Feb. 09, 2010
Atlanta community art and design workshops - Feb. 03, 2010
SCAD presents "Storytellers Weekend" - Jan. 29, 2010
Check out SCAD during SCAD Days - Jan. 28, 2010
SCADDY Awards held Jan. 22
Recognition
- Owen St. Gelais interns at Suckerpunch Studio
- Katie Cantrell wins Threadless competition
- Katie Cantrell finalist in Green contest
- Abercrombie & Fitch hires Lauren Mills
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