Tuesday, September 17, 2013
4:30 to 7:00 PM
Denison Museum (Burke Hall), Directions

Personal Space

Denison Museum is pleased to welcome the exhibition “Personal Space”. “Personal Space” will explore the fragility of the human body, utopian and dystopian realities/fantasies, vulnerability, fear, anxiety, and desire. The New York based artists comprising the show — Jennifer Cohen, Dani Leventhal, Yasue Maetake, Ohad Meromi, and Jennifer Nuss will exhibit work ranging from modestly scaled drawings to large sculptures and video.

In an ongoing effort to highlight the outstanding quality of Denison Museum’s permanent collection, the five artists participating in “Personal Space” have generously curated pieces from the Museum’s permanent collection that will be on view in the smaller gallery.

These exhibitions have been organized by Tommy White, Denison University Assistant Professor of Studio Art.

Exhibitions on view September 12, 2013 – December 7, 2013
Free and open to the public.

Green Revolution
Real Utopias: From Dreams to Practice

For more information: Green Revolution

Saturday, April 20, 2013
1:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Denison Museum (Burke Hall), Directions

Please join us this spring for a fun-filled afternoon of family friendly events and Book Making Workshop. Refreshments will be served. All ages welcome. This event is free and open to the public.

Book Making Workshop

In association with the exhibition Druckworks: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker, the students of Denison University’s Artists Books class will conduct a one-day workshop for ages 6-18. This free class will teach some amazing and simple book binding processes that have been used by artists of all discipline to work with the book as a form of art. All materials will be provided.

Johanna Drucker

A Gallery Talk with Visiting Artist Johanna Drucker. Johanna Drucker is a distinguished writer, typographic poet, and scholar-critic. The DRUCKWORKS retrospective allows audiences to experience the course of her artistic development while offering key insights into the evolution of the field of artists’ books as an interdisciplinary, and often collaborative, artistic and literary activity.

Co-sponsored by Denison Museum and Creativity & Courage: Denison’s 2012-13 Spectrum Series

DRUCKWORKS: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker is organized by the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago.

Johanna Drucker

Lecture by Johanna Drucker with Reception Following

While providing an overview of digital humanities projects at UCLA, this talk will focus on pedagogy and scholarship at the intersection of libraries and digital collections. This library talk is part of the Franklin Lecture Series, funded by the Carolyn Craig and Dr. Carl M. Franklin Fund.

Co-sponsored by Denison Museum and Denison Libraries

Johanna Drucker. “History of the/my Wor(l)d”, 1990. Granary Books. Edition 1, Object 1. Page 40-41. http://www.artistsbooksonline.org

Friday, February 8, 2013
4:30 to 7:00 PM
Denison Museum (Burke Hall), Directions

DRUCKWORKS: 40 Years of Books and Projects by Johanna Drucker

Johanna Drucker is a distinguished writer, typographic poet, and scholar-critic. The DRUCKWORKS retrospective allows audiences to experience the course of her artistic development while offering key insights into the evolution of the field of artists’ books as an interdisciplinary, and often collaborative, artistic and literary activity.

Organized by the Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago.

Book + Art: The Reading Room

Book + Art: The Reading Room features books by Ohio artists and is the result of sabbatical research conducted by Denison’s own University Archivist Heather Lyle.

Artist Books Print Project

The works in this exhibition were created in Denison University’s Introduction to Print course and addressed an exploration of memory including place and time a reflection on our private and shared environment. Introduction to Print was taught by Visiting Professor Melissa Vogley-Woods in Fall 2012.

Queer Graphix Zines

Zines about GLBTQ artists and art movements created by students in Associate Professor Ron Abram’s Queer Graphix course, a Denison University Studio Art/Queer Studies course dealing with alternative queer art-making practices and aesthetics with a focus on issues of identity, gender, orientation and sexuality.

Exhibitions on view February 8, 2013 – May 11, 2013
Free and open to the public.

Panel discussion featuring artist-photographer Dr. Andrea Baldeck, Dr. Tracee Laing, founding director of Granville’s own Healing Art Missions, Keith W. Hare, HAM’s technical consultant for technology, alternative energy, and infrastructure, and Dr. Joe Reczek, Assistant Professor in Denison’s Chemistry and Biochemistry Department. Sharing a commitment to advancing community health knowledge and social justice in under-developed communities, the guest speakers will rely on personal experience to document NGO volunteerism in one of the world’s poorest nations.

Thursday, November 8, 2012
7:00 PM
Burke Hall, Directions

Free and open to the public

A gallery talk by fine-art photographer Andrea Baldeck on her exhibition “Heart of Haiti.”
Reservations required through Cookie Sunkle at Gilpatrick Center (sunkle@denison.edu or 740-587-6573).
Limited to 20 people.

Thursday, November 8, 2012
11:30 AM – 12:40 PM
Burke Hall, Directions

The week of October 22nd, the Granville location of Whit’s Frozen Custard will offer a special flavor called “Heavenly Haiti”. It is a Banana Custard with Coconut and Dark Chocolate flakes. All proceeds of “Heavenly Haiti” will benefit Healing Art Missions.

October 22, 2012
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Higley Hall Auditorium

Market Imaginary (2012), written, directed and produced by Joanna Grabski (Art History) in collaboration with Christian Faur (Mulberry Mix Lab), Fanta Diamanka (Women’s Studies), and Aissata Barry (DU Class of 2015)

Dialogue in Wolof, French, and English. Subtitles in English.

Running Time 54 minutes

According to a popular saying in Dakar, Senegal, “You can find anything in the world at Colobane Market.” The objects in market stalls – colorful new and used clothing, shoes, journals, watches, radios and cell phones—force the eye and imagination to travel to all corners of the globe. Market Imaginary deals with the imagination around Dakar’s Colobane Market and its surrounding neighborhood. The film considers the many ways the market is embedded in its neighborhood and the broader imagination of Dakar’s residents. This documentary film is composed of an introduction and three chapters: The first chapter considers the speculations involved in market business for both buyers and sellers. The second chapter focuses on the history and growth of the neighborhood following the displacement of populations during the French colonial era. The third chapter explores the processes of creativity and reinvention by examining how artists use the material resources and visual possibilities offered by the market and city more broadly.

The documentary is based on long-term research about Colobane Market, the surrounding neighborhood, and the city of Dakar. It features interviews with Cheikh Ndiaye, Viyé Diba, Ndary Lo, Abdoulaye Ndoye, Fally Sene Sow, 2Pac Colobane, Docta, Vieux Cissé, Aminata Diop, El Hadji Ousmane Mbenga, Ndeye Fatou Gueye, and Ousmane Sene.

Please see the link to the film’s trailer: http://vimeo.com/40033895