Art Talk for July
Thursday, July 7 | 7:00 p.m.
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WHAT: Art Talk for July
WHO: Current artists-in-residence
WHEN: Thursday, July 7, 2011 | 7:00 pm
WHERE: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts at 12th & Leavenworth
Join us as artists-in-residence sculptor Mia Feuer, new media artist John Peña and photographer Wendel A. White present their work during the Bemis Center’s First Thursday Art Talk on July 7 at 7:00 pm.
Mia Feuer’s massive sculptures create the illusion of architectural elements like bridges, cranes and military checkpoints in states of potential or collapse. John Peña’s projects include outrunning a cloud, mailing letters to the Pacific Ocean every day for the last seven years and creating a pirate radio station that plays extinct birds sounds. Wendel A. White photographs objects, documents and images that relate to the abolition of slavery, Reconstruction and the civil rights era.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Mia Feuer received a BFA from the University of Manitoba in 2005 and MFA in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009. She has had solo exhibitions at Outerworks Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; FLUXspace, Philadelphia, PA; Dorfman Projects, New York, NY; Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT; and Transformer Gallery, Washington DC. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony. She lives and works in Washington D.C.
John Peña is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who grew up in Washington State. He received a BFA in Painting and MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008 John received a Fulbright Fellowship to Cali, Colombia. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and taught as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. John’s work has been exhibited at The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Kevin Kavanaugh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY; and The Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA.
Wendel A. White was awarded a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin. White received a 2009-2010 En Foco New Works Photography Fellowship; a 2009 and 1993 Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a 2005 grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and in 2003 he was appointed a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work is represented in museum and corporate collections, exhibitions, and publications including: the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY; the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at University of Delaware, Newark, DE; Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY. Wendel is currently a board member of various cultural organizations including; New Jersey Black Culture and Heritage Foundation, and the Atlantic City Historical Museum, and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (currently as chair).
ABOUT THE BEMIS CENTER
As an artist-centered organization, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts was founded by artists – for artists. In this spirit, the Bemis provides artists with the gift of time, space and support. Established in 1981, the Bemis Center’s sole mission has been to support contemporary artists of exceptional talent. This mission is achieved through it's international artist-in-residence program, exhibitions and community arts projects that directly fund and support artists’ process, catalyzing their work to engage and challenge the public.
SPONSORED BY:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Clark Creative Group, Gifford Foundation, Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, Upstream Brewing Company, The William and Ruth Scott Family Foundation, Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation
WHAT: Art Talk for July
WHO: Current artists-in-residence
WHEN: Thursday, July 7, 2011 | 7:00 pm
WHERE: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts at 12th & Leavenworth
Join us as artists-in-residence sculptor Mia Feuer, new media artist John Peña and photographer Wendel A. White present their work during the Bemis Center’s First Thursday Art Talk on July 7 at 7:00 pm.
Mia Feuer’s massive sculptures create the illusion of architectural elements like bridges, cranes and military checkpoints in states of potential or collapse. John Peña’s projects include outrunning a cloud, mailing letters to the Pacific Ocean every day for the last seven years and creating a pirate radio station that plays extinct birds sounds. Wendel A. White photographs objects, documents and images that relate to the abolition of slavery, Reconstruction and the civil rights era.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Mia Feuer received a BFA from the University of Manitoba in 2005 and MFA in the Department of Sculpture and Extended Media at Virginia Commonwealth University in 2009. She has had solo exhibitions at Outerworks Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; FLUXspace, Philadelphia, PA; Dorfman Projects, New York, NY; Firehouse Gallery, Burlington, VT; and Transformer Gallery, Washington DC. She has been awarded residencies at the Vermont Studio Center, the MacDowell Colony, and the Millay Colony. She lives and works in Washington D.C.
John Peña is a multidisciplinary artist and educator who grew up in Washington State. He received a BFA in Painting and MFA at Carnegie Mellon University. In 2008 John received a Fulbright Fellowship to Cali, Colombia. He attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture and taught as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University. John’s work has been exhibited at The Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA; Kevin Kavanaugh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY; and The Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Seattle, WA.
Wendel A. White was awarded a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts in New York and an MFA in photography from the University of Texas at Austin. White received a 2009-2010 En Foco New Works Photography Fellowship; a 2009 and 1993 Artist Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts; a 2005 grant from the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts and in 2003 he was appointed a fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. His work is represented in museum and corporate collections, exhibitions, and publications including: the Museum of Fine Art, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL; Haverford College, Haverford, PA; Johnson and Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ; Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY; the Paul R. Jones Collection of African American Art at University of Delaware, Newark, DE; Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI; and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York, NY. Wendel is currently a board member of various cultural organizations including; New Jersey Black Culture and Heritage Foundation, and the Atlantic City Historical Museum, and the New Jersey Council for the Humanities (currently as chair).
ABOUT THE BEMIS CENTER
As an artist-centered organization, the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts was founded by artists – for artists. In this spirit, the Bemis provides artists with the gift of time, space and support. Established in 1981, the Bemis Center’s sole mission has been to support contemporary artists of exceptional talent. This mission is achieved through it's international artist-in-residence program, exhibitions and community arts projects that directly fund and support artists’ process, catalyzing their work to engage and challenge the public.
SPONSORED BY:
The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Clark Creative Group, Gifford Foundation, Sam and Adele Golden Foundation for the Arts, National Endowment for the Arts, Nebraska Arts Council, Upstream Brewing Company, The William and Ruth Scott Family Foundation, Phillip and Terri Schrager Foundation
