August 25 - October 27, 2005
Fine Arts Gallery Exhibition
Selections from the KSU Permanent Collection
The Collection’s 19th-and early 20th-century landscape paintings in the Hudson River School, Luminist Impressionist and Realist styles will be featured along with examples of genre and still life.
OPENING RECEPTION HONORING GENEROUS DONORS TO THE COLLECTION
August 25: 7- 9 p.m.
Fine Arts Gallery, Joe Mack Wilson Building • Free

August 31-October 15
Sturgis Library Gallery Exhibition
The Collectors’ Vision:
Latin American Art in Georgia Collections
The media and art patrons have recognized KSU for its quality exhibitions of Latino and Latin American Art for many years. This exhibition showcases works from collectors of Latin American Art for the first time in the metropolitan Atlanta area. The exhibition will include a catalog and lectures by artists and scholars in collaboration with the Center for Hispanic Studies during Hispanic Heritage Month in October.
RECEPTION:
7-9 p.m. August 31.
Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.
GALLERY LECTURE:
Roberta Griffin, 6:30 p.m.
Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.

 

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September 7
Gallery Lecture by Roberta Griffin
“Passion and Continuity:
The Presence of the Past in Latin American Art.” 
Roberta Griffin is the curator of “The Collectors’ Vision: Latin American Art in Georgia.”
6:30 p.m.
Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.

September 17
Community Children's Event
Be-A-Part-of-the-Arts Fair.
Performances and hands-on activities for children.
1–4 p.m. the grounds of the College of the Arts. Free.

October 13, 2005 (changed date!)
Gallery Lecture by Dr. Florencia Bazzano-Nelson
"Between Toys and Mirrors: The Art of Liliana Porter"
Dr. Bazzano-Nelson is an Assistant Professor Of Art at Georgia State University
6:30 p.m. Thursday, October 13 in Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.

October 15, 2005
Gallery Lecture by Ana Fernandez
"Cuban Art from the 1990s Into the New Millenium"
Ana Fernandez is a curator and art writer
5 p.m. Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.

October 27-December 22
A Mirror on the Millennium: 1000 Years of Paper and Ink at the Bentley Rare Book Gallery.
The Kennesaw State University Press and the Horace W. Sturgis Library sponsor this exhibition, featuring the Fred D. Bentley Rare Book Collection. For more information, call 770-423-6186.
Reception: 7-9 p.m. October 27. Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.

November 10-December 8
Senior Art Majors Fall Exhibition Part I.
Studio art, graphic design and art education majors exhibit the best of their work in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking graphic design, photography and ceramics. 
Reception: 7-9 p.m. November 10. Fine Arts Gallery, Joe Mack Wilson Building. Free.  

November 14-December 8
Senior Art Majors Fall Exhibition Part II.
Studio art, graphic design and art education majors exhibit the best of their work in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking graphic design, photography and ceramics. 
Reception: 7-9 p.m. November 14. Art Station Big Shanty, 2050 Kennesaw Due West Road, Kennesaw. Free.

January 14
Premiere Series: Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano.
Jennifer Larmore’s operatic début in 1986 as Sesto in Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito in France marked the start of a brilliant international career in which operas of Rossini, Bellini, Mozart and Handel have come to figure prominently. After a triumphant decade in Europe, she returned to the United States for her Metropolitan Opera début in 1995. Since then, she has continued to perform and record around the world with the most impressive orchestras and opera companies. With this recital, the Georgia-born superstar returns to her home county for an intimate evening.
8 p.m. Howard Logan Stillwell Theater, Joe Mack Wilson Building. $40. 

January 18-March 3
Merging East and West: Chen Zhen’s Cross-Cultural Installations.
Chen Zhen (1955-2000) is an internationally renowned artist who combined Eastern sensibility with Western contemporary aesthetics. His works are critical satires with political, economic, and cultural overtones or meditations on the interface between matter and spirit. This exhibition features five installations, created over the last five years of his life, that engage viewers in the power of objects to create metaphysical connections to the transcendent. Presented as part of the KSU Celebration of the Year of China. This exhibtion and its guest lectures have been made possible, in part, through funding provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Cultural Services of the French Embassy and Georgia Humanities Council. Reception: 7-9 p.m. January 18, Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.  

January 19
Gallery Lecture
Hou Hanru Lectures on “Transexperience: Chen Zhen’s Art and Thoughts”
This world-renowned writer on contemporary Chinese art will discuss the life and work of Chen Zhen. Presented as part of the KSU Celebration of the Year of China.
6:30 p.m. Howard Logan Stillwell Theater, Joe Mack Wilson Building. Free.  

January 19
Gallery Lecture
Gallery Lecture by Lorenzo Fiaschi
The director of Galeria Continua, Milan, Italy, and curator of several major exhibitions during the last years of Chen Zhen’s life will talk. Presented as part of the KSU Celebration of the Year of China.
Time and location TBA. Please call the Gallery.office for details at  Kennesaw State University, 1000 Chastain Road, Kennesaw. Free.  

January 26-March 2
Annual KSU Art Faculty Exhibition
KSU College of the Arts professors exhibit a wide range of media, including sculpture, painting, drawing, photography, ceramics, mixed media, printmaking and graphic design. Some faculty artists will present Gallery.talks about their work.
Reception: 7-9 p.m. January 26. Fine Arts Gallery, Joe Mack Wilson Building. Free.

February (Date TBA)
Gallery Lecture, Antoine Guerrero,
Curator of P.S.1, a branch of the Museum of Modern Art, and assistant to the artist for many of his exhibition installations presents a lecture about the Chen Zhen exhibition. Presented as part of the KSU Celebration of the Year of China.
Location and time TBA. Please call the Gallery office for details at 770-499-3223.

March 2-28
Spring Senior Art Majors Exhibition Part I.
Studio art, graphic design and art education majors exhibit the best of their work in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, graphic design, photography and ceramics. 
Reception: 7-9 p.m. March 2. Art Station Big Shanty, 2050 Kennesaw Due West Road, Kennesaw. Free.  

March 15-April 18
Juan Logan: Caught Off Guard, Selected Works from 1965-2005.
The paintings and sculptures in this 40-year retrospective of Juan Logan’s work explore the impact of racism, social change and injustice with symbolically charged images and the healing power of ritual objects rooted in the rural black South of his past. His art reflects the changes he-and society-has experienced in America since the 1960s, and challenges viewers to move beyond our differences to an understanding of our shared humanity. 
Reception: 7-9 p.m. March 15. Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.  

March 22-April 18
Spring Senior Art Majors Exhibition Part II.
Studio art, graphic design and art education majors exhibit the best of their work in painting, sculpture, drawing, printmaking, graphic design, photography and ceramics. 
Reception: 7-9 p.m. March 22. Fine Arts Gallery, Joe Mack Wilson Building. Free.

April 1
Fifth Annual Benefit Gala.
The College of the Arts presents its annual evening of dinner, dancing and silent/live auctions to benefit endowed scholarships and student-learning initiatives.  This year, the event will honor Dean Joseph Meeks’ 30th Anniversary at Kennesaw State.
6-11 p.m. Egyptian Ballroom, Fox Theater, 660 Peachtree Street NE, Atlanta. For sponsorship information, call 770-499-3214.

April 27-May 15
23rd Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition.
This spirited competition, held every spring, is open to all students on campus and offers cash prizes in nine categories. Many of the works are for sale.
Reception: 7-9 p.m. April 27 with awards presentation at 8 p.m. Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.

May 8-May 29
Georgia Artists with DisAbilities.
There is nothing disabled about the creative visions of these artists, many of whom have achieved national recognition for their drawing, painting, photography, sculpture, fabric design, jewelry or ceramics. This traveling exhibition features works from the 2005-2006 Annual Juried Competition.
Reception: 7-9 p.m. May 8. Fine Arts Gallery, Joe Mack Wilson Building. Free.

June 7-July 26
Transmutations: The Art of Roberta Griffin. This 30-year retrospective of paintings, drawings and prints traces changes in the artist’s style and the constancy of a vision based on universal themes in nature and passages in her life.
Reception: 7-9 p.m. June 7. Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.

June 12-July 30
THIS EXHIBITION HAS BEEN CANCELLED
On the Grounds III: A Bold Vision:
The Sculpture of Zachary Coffin
Reception: 7-9 p.m. June 12.
Fine Arts Gallery, Joe Mack Wilson Building. Free.

June 14
Gallery Talk: The Art of Roberta Griffin.
The artist will read selections from her poems and discuss works in the exhibition.
7-9 p.m. Sturgis Library Gallery. Free.