Events for the Week of October 19

We have some chances for art involvement and education not to be missed! See below:

Events at Trinity
* There will be a planning meeting for a group Luminaria application (due Oct 31). I currently want to schedule the meeting for 2:00 on Friday, after which we can carpool to the Mel Bochner opening. If you want to participate, let me know. If you'd rather we have it on Sunday, let Rachel Brownlee know (rbrownle@trinity.edu).

* ROBOT ART GALLERY, the cool southside place at which John interns, is having a holiday show called "Not Your Granny's Christmas Wreath." If you volunteered a submission, remember te last deadline to drop them off is October 30.

*Colleen has proposed we have a weekly coffee shop/ jazz outing. This sounds awesome. We will make plans ASAP. Although its less classy, I throw in Sonic Happy Hour as additional meeting suggestion.

*There will be a lecture by Jeff Waniewski at ArtPace on Thursday at 6:30. Contact Claire Leggett (ClaireLeg@gmail.com) if you want to carpool.

* Don't forget the work for UT Health Science Center is due by Nov. 15. See my e-mail from Oct 10 for details.

Events in the Community
* Land Arts Symposium (free!)

-This weekend in San Antonio. Liz Ward will be a participant, plus Lucy Lippard, Joan Jonas, and many more. Check it out at the URL below:
http://landheritageinstitute.org/2009ARTSCI/2009_LHI_Art-Sci_Symposium.html

* Mel Bochner opening at Lawrence Markey Gallery Friday 5-7. Several Trinity students have interned with Lawrence over the past few years. (Plus Schreyach said this was not to be missed, if I'm not mistaken.)
-e-mail Rachel Brownlee (rbrownle@trinity.edu) if you want to carpool.

(Next two events w/ text from UT)
* Lecture by Resident Artist Joan Jonas October 22 4:00 PM Art Building (ART) 1.102
-Joan Jonas is internationally known for her performances and video art, mixing objects and mediated images together in natural and industrial environments. Using video as a mirroring device, Jonas herself appears as a performer in her work, often performing densely collaged narrative texts. Her awards include recognition from the American Film Institute, The Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art.Image: “The Shape, the Scent, the Feel of Things”, performance, 2005-2006, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York.Get the details for this event

* Lecture by Visiting Artist Wangechi Mutu October 28 5:00 PM Art Building (ART) 1.102
-Wangechi Mutu, a Kenyan-born artist based in New York, makes luscious yet unsettling pictures of female figures. Her painted and collaged works on Mylar function as potent social critique while simultaneously exploring more poetic strains of mythology, allegory and the sensuousness of form, color, and pattern. Particularly interested in myths about gender and ethnicity that have long circulated in Africa and the West, Mutu has adopted the medium of collage — which by its nature evokes rupture and collision — to depict the monstrous, the exotic, and the feminine.Mutu’s work has exhibited internationally at galleries and museums including the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Miami Art Museum, Tate Modern in London, the Studio Museum in Harlem in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. Her work has been featured in major exhibitions including Greater New York at the P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Museum of Modern Art in New York; Black President at the New Museum of Contemporary Art New York; the Barbican, London; and USA Today at The Royal Academy in London.Image: Wangechi Mutu “A’gave you”, 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles Projects. Photo credit: Robert Wedemeyer