Art Education program alumnae Elizabeth Tumilty and Sandra Burton have been nominated for the prestigious Norfolk Public Schools’ 2011 Inspiration Awards under the category of Most Outstanding in Art Education. Emily teaches at Dreamkeepers Academy and Sandra at Blair Middle School. Congratulations to both!
Art Education Program Director Richard Nickel was invited to donate artwork to the 10th Annual ForKids Art Action and Casino Night. ForKids is a local organization providing services to meet the wide spectrum of need found in homeless families. For more information about ForKids or volunteering, go here.
Professor Nickel also recently selected works and presented awards for the 40th anniversary student art exhibition and reception at Tidewater Community College. The annual exhibition consisted of over 200 diverse examples of drawings, paintings, sculpture, photography, glass and ceramics from TCC students. The exhibition runs March 27–April 24, 2011.
This year the ODU Student Art Gallery will be hosting the Mothers Day Art Sale to benefit the people of Japan. Students from ODU ceramics classes and Art Education classes have been making beautiful bowls and cups to donate to the sale. All proceeds will be sent to the Save the Children Foundation.
Monday April 18–Friday April 22
Webb Center Student Art Gallery
12pm-2:00pm Monday – Friday
Contact information rnickel@odu.edu
Art Education professor Richard Nickel was recently juried into Beyond the Brickyard at the Archie Bray Art Center in Helena Montana. The Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Arts is a public, nonprofit, educational institution founded in 1951 by brickmaker Archie Bray, who intended it to be “a place to make available for all who are seriously and sincerely interested in any of the branches of the ceramic arts. The Bray presents works by 25 ceramic artists in its third annual juried exhibition. Works were selected by guest juror Paul Mathieu, the foundation’s 2010 Voulkos Fellow.
Beyond the Brickyard
Third Annual Juried Exhibition
January 29–April 2, 2011
Bray North Gallery
Click here to view the exhibition online.
Featuring artwork by Pavel Amromin, HP Bloomer, James Coquia, Chandra DeBuse, Ilena Finocchi, Jonathan Fitz, Raymond Gonzalez, Juliana Greaves Rempel, Chad Gunderson, Ross Hilgers, Mark Johnson, Brian Jones, James Klueg, Tim Kowalczyk, Lauren Mabry, Rebecca Manson, Paul Mcmullan, Matthew Mitros, Richard Nickel, Benjamin Peterson, Audrey Rosulek, Hope Rovelto, Jinsoo Song, Shawn Spangler and John Utgaard.
The Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at Old Dominion University will present Magic Dirt, a national juried exhibition showcasing contemporary ceramics sculpture, January 15–February 20, with an opening reception on Saturday, Saturday, January 15. The show, which is free and open to the public.
The show’s jurors, Juan Granados, Associate Professor of Art at Texas Tech University, and Richard Nickel, Associate Professor of Art Education at ODU, designed the exhibit to showcase innovative contemporary ceramics sculpture and functional forms. With Magic Dirt they were looking for personal and artistic narratives through the medium of ceramics.
“We wanted works that spoke eloquently about the artists’ abilities to communicate their artistic visions and statements through the use of ceramics and in some cases mixed media,” Granados and Nickel said in a joint statement. “Ultimately we chose artworks that were impressive examples of artists communicating with visual interplay in media, commentary, social and political awareness, humor and a range of aesthetic exploration. Overall, we believe the exhibition presents wonderful and excellent examples of personal artistic narratives in ceramics.”
The Gordon Galleries are located at 4509 Monarch Way, between 45th and 46th streets. For more information call 683-6271 or visit http://al.odu.edu/art/gallery/index.php.
Magic Dirt exhibition co-juror and Associate Professor of Art at Texas Tech University Juan Granados will present a lecture and demonstration about his work on Thursday January 21 from 11:00–2:00, and Friday, January 22, 3:00–5:00 in room 115 of the Studio Art Building.
Art Education professor Richard Nickel was recently juried in the into 100 TEAPOTS at Baltimore Clayworks The exhibition was juried by Nick Joerling a full-time studio potter who has maintained a studio in Penland, North Carolina since the early 80′s. He received a B.A. in History from the University of Dayton, Ohio, and an M.F.A. in Ceramics from Louisiana State University in 1986.
Jurors Statement: My dictionary says a teapot is “A covered pot with a spout.” I smile at the judiciousness of that definition, like characterizing a human being as an upright body with a face. Buried in both succinct summations is the rich unending variety of mechanics, spirit, aesthetics, emotion, intellect. I like the blue-collar aspect of pots, that they do the every day work of carrying, containing, delivering, but can also “step out” and stimulate the mind and imagination. I like the pots that make good use of the constraints of utility, and I like the pots that push against those boundaries: pots that entertain some dicey possibilities. In my own studio I hope for pots that have qualities of sensuality, empathy, humor and risk.
100 Teapots V will be featured in the Baltimore Clayworks Exhibition Gallery from January 15–February 27, 2011
The opening reception will be Saturday, January 15, 2011, 6:00–8:00PM
Baltimore Clayworks Exhibition Online:
http://www.baltimoreclayworks.org/images/exhibition/11/100teapotsV/index.html
Annual ODU Student Pottery Sale in the WEBB Center at ODU
Dec 7th-17th
11-2:00 m-friday
if you are a student or faculty and would like to donate work or sell work bring some over !
Proceeds of donations this year will go to FORKIDS.
student-gallery-springsummer_2011_schedule_cn1.docx
Applications are being accepted for exhibitions in the Webb Center Student Gallery for spring and summer 2011. The purpose of the Student Gallery is to showcase student work from the ODU Art Department. Proposed dates must be based on the calendar year. Exhibitions may be scheduled for a maximum of two weeks. Work must be removed on the last day of the exhibition.
A Facebook group for the gallery can be found here.
For a copy of the WORD application form, please download this form: student-gallery-springsummer_2011_schedule_cn1.docx
or PDF here: student-gallery-springsummer_2011_schedule_cn1
The Old Dominion University Art Education program presents:
TRANSFORMATION: Saturday Morning Art Classes!
Fall 2010 for Students Grades 5-12
Saturday, November 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM – Saturday, November 20, 2010 at 2:30 PM (ET)
Norfolk, VA
Inspired by contemporary artists, art education can be a transformative experience.
The ODU Art Education Program is hosting classes written by ODU Art Education Students to educate students and the public on the power of transformation through art. Students will be encouraged to make meaningful connections to contemporary artists and through creative art studio experiences, gain understanding of how artists today can express ideas and personal points of view through the big idea of “Transformation”.
To register online go to this link:
ODU Art 
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