Exploring the Neighborhood - Episode 14
Thor interrogates artist Dale Fehr of Flying Colours Gallery & Retreat of Maccan, Nova Scotia, an antique venue that specializes mostly in 1930’s & 1940’s artifacts, books, and fine china.
We discuss the challenges and opportunities of starting a business in a dying town without money, credit or local support system. Despite these constraints, Dale’s shop exudes a unique taste and flair that is not typical of such a rural location.
Special bonus, an art, quilting and lifestyle discussion with Valerie Chapel of The Amherst Artisan Gallery.
360° Exhibition Tour | Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe | Led by Founding Director Tracy L. Adler
360° Exhibition Tour | Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe | Led by Founding Director Tracy L. Adler
Video created by: Ben Salzman
Organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe is the Beijing-born artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States, featuring a selection of work from 2006 to the present, including new scrolls, sculptures, and drawings never before exhibited. Taking on the thousand-year-old practice of Chinese scroll painting, Yun-Fei Ji employs ink on paper as his primary medium and landscape as his central subject. However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji’s work presents the gritty reality of life in China today. Ji emphasizes the critical relationship between the land and its people and how that balance is being challenged by current social, political, ecological, and economic shifts. His compositions are inspired by his own fieldwork in rural areas throughout China’s countryside, where entire villages face forced relocation to make way for ambitious infrastructural projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, and where climate change has compromised the natural environment. The resulting artworks are populated by individualized, present-day figures inhabiting land in various stages of transition. Poised between modernity and tradition, the village becomes a metaphor for community, and the dislocation and environmental deterioration become specters of geographic disenfranchisement. Embedded within the compositions alongside the villagers, ghosts of ancestors and animal-like folkloric figures act as powerful reminders of the longstanding cultural traditions at risk. With their impressionistic brushwork and original subject matter, Ji’s paintings possess an immediacy and urgency that suggest a fragmented, at times surreal, contemporary landscape.
Born in Beijing (1963), Yun-Fei Ji received a BFA from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1989. His work has been shown extensively, most recently at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan; the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, Massachusetts; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and in the 2014 New Orleans biennial Prospect.3: Notes for Now. In 2012, Ji presented his first Beijing solo exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. He received the Rome Prize in 2006 from the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
This survey of the artist’s work will be followed by a major monographic publication that includes essays by Tracy L. Adler, Director, Wellin Museum of Art; Steven J. Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History at Hamilton College; and Robert Morgan, noted critic and curator; co-published with DelMonico Books/Prestel, New York.
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe will travel to the Honolulu Museum of Art, where it will be on view from September 29, 2016 – February 5, 2017.
Donald Chong
DONALD CHONG, Partner, Williamson Chong Architects
Founded in 2011 in Toronto and led by Donald Chong, Betsy Williamson, and
Shane Williamson, the architecture of Williamson Chong prioritizes urbanism,
landscape and materials research. With projects ranging in scale from
furniture through to master planning. Donald’s engagements have included
lectures, workshops and teaching in Tokyo, Seoul, Copenhagen, Toronto,
Kingston (Queen’s), Waterloo, Lethbridge, Calgary, New York, Massachusetts
(Amherst), Zurich and Lausanne. He co-edited the award-winning Site Unseen:
Laneway architecture and Urbanism in Toronto (2004), and was selected to
Architectural Review’s ‘Houses by Emerging Architects’ and Dwell Magazine’s
‘The Future Issue’. Donald’s work has been recognized with Canadian
Architect awards of Excellence, City of Toronto Architecture and Urbanism
Awards of Excellence, Ontario Association of Architect’s Awards, The 2009
Marcus Foundation architectural Prize Shortlist, The 2012 Canada Council
Prix de Rome, The Royal Architectural Insitutes 2014 Emerging Practice
award, The Architectural League’s 2014 Emerging Voices award, and most
recently Wallpaper’s 2015 Architect’s directory.
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe
Curated by Johnson-Pote Director Tracy L. Adler
Video created by: Ben Salzman
Organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe is the Beijing-born artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States, featuring a selection of work from 2006 to the present, including new scrolls, sculptures, and drawings never before exhibited. Taking on the thousand-year-old practice of Chinese scroll painting, Yun-Fei Ji employs ink on paper as his primary medium and landscape as his central subject. However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji’s work presents the gritty reality of life in China today. Ji emphasizes the critical relationship between the land and its people and how that balance is being challenged by current social, political, ecological, and economic shifts. His compositions are inspired by his own fieldwork in rural areas throughout China’s countryside, where entire villages face forced relocation to make way for ambitious infrastructural projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, and where climate change has compromised the natural environment. The resulting artworks are populated by individualized, present-day figures inhabiting land in various stages of transition. Poised between modernity and tradition, the village becomes a metaphor for community, and the dislocation and environmental deterioration become specters of geographic disenfranchisement. Embedded within the compositions alongside the villagers, ghosts of ancestors and animal-like folkloric figures act as powerful reminders of the longstanding cultural traditions at risk. With their impressionistic brushwork and original subject matter, Ji’s paintings possess an immediacy and urgency that suggest a fragmented, at times surreal, contemporary landscape.
Born in Beijing (1963), Yun-Fei Ji received a BFA from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1989. His work has been shown extensively, most recently at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan; the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, Massachusetts; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and in the 2014 New Orleans biennial Prospect.3: Notes for Now. In 2012, Ji presented his first Beijing solo exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. He received the Rome Prize in 2006 from the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
This survey of the artist’s work will be followed by a major monographic publication that includes essays by Tracy L. Adler, Director, Wellin Museum of Art; Steven J. Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History at Hamilton College; and Robert Morgan, noted critic and curator; co-published with DelMonico Books/Prestel, New York.
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Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe | Opening Saturday, February 6, 2016 | Exhibition Video Trailer
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe
Curated by Tracy L. Adler, Director, Wellin Museum of Art
Video created by: Ben Salzman
Organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe is the Beijing-born artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States, featuring a selection of work from 2006 to the present, including new scrolls, sculptures, and drawings never before exhibited. Taking on the thousand-year-old practice of Chinese scroll painting, Yun-Fei Ji employs ink on paper as his primary medium and landscape as his central subject. However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji’s work presents the gritty reality of life in China today. Ji emphasizes the critical relationship between the land and its people and how that balance is being challenged by current social, political, ecological, and economic shifts. His compositions are inspired by his own fieldwork in rural areas throughout China’s countryside, where entire villages face forced relocation to make way for ambitious infrastructural projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, and where climate change has compromised the natural environment. The resulting artworks are populated by individualized, present-day figures inhabiting land in various stages of transition. Poised between modernity and tradition, the village becomes a metaphor for community, and the dislocation and environmental deterioration become specters of geographic disenfranchisement. Embedded within the compositions alongside the villagers, ghosts of ancestors and animal-like folkloric figures act as powerful reminders of the longstanding cultural traditions at risk. With their impressionistic brushwork and original subject matter, Ji’s paintings possess an immediacy and urgency that suggest a fragmented, at times surreal, contemporary landscape.
Born in Beijing (1963), Yun-Fei Ji received a BFA from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1989. His work has been shown extensively, most recently at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan; the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, Massachusetts; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and in the 2014 New Orleans biennial Prospect.3: Notes for Now. In 2012, Ji presented his first Beijing solo exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. He received the Rome Prize in 2006 from the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
This survey of the artist’s work will be followed by a major monographic publication that includes essays by Tracy L. Adler, Director, Wellin Museum of Art; Steven J. Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History at Hamilton College; and Robert Morgan, noted critic and curator; co-published with DelMonico Books/Prestel, New York.
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe | Opening Saturday, February 6, 2016 | Exhibition Video Trailer 2
Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe
Curated by Tracy L. Adler, Director, Wellin Museum of Art
Video created by: Ben Salzman
Organized by the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe is the Beijing-born artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States, featuring a selection of work from 2006 to the present, including new scrolls, sculptures, and drawings never before exhibited. Taking on the thousand-year-old practice of Chinese scroll painting, Yun-Fei Ji employs ink on paper as his primary medium and landscape as his central subject. However, rather than adopting the idealism characteristic of traditional scroll painting, Ji’s work presents the gritty reality of life in China today. Ji emphasizes the critical relationship between the land and its people and how that balance is being challenged by current social, political, ecological, and economic shifts. His compositions are inspired by his own fieldwork in rural areas throughout China’s countryside, where entire villages face forced relocation to make way for ambitious infrastructural projects such as the Three Gorges Dam, and where climate change has compromised the natural environment. The resulting artworks are populated by individualized, present-day figures inhabiting land in various stages of transition. Poised between modernity and tradition, the village becomes a metaphor for community, and the dislocation and environmental deterioration become specters of geographic disenfranchisement. Embedded within the compositions alongside the villagers, ghosts of ancestors and animal-like folkloric figures act as powerful reminders of the longstanding cultural traditions at risk. With their impressionistic brushwork and original subject matter, Ji’s paintings possess an immediacy and urgency that suggest a fragmented, at times surreal, contemporary landscape.
Born in Beijing (1963), Yun-Fei Ji received a BFA from Beijing’s Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1982 and an MFA from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville in 1989. His work has been shown extensively, most recently at the Grand Rapids Art Museum in Michigan; the University Museum of Contemporary Art in Amherst, Massachusetts; the Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; and in the 2014 New Orleans biennial Prospect.3: Notes for Now. In 2012, Ji presented his first Beijing solo exhibition at the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art. He received the Rome Prize in 2006 from the American Academy in Rome, Italy.
This survey of the artist’s work will be followed by a major monographic publication that includes essays by Tracy L. Adler, Director, Wellin Museum of Art; Steven J. Goldberg, Associate Professor of Art History at Hamilton College; and Robert Morgan, noted critic and curator; co-published with DelMonico Books/Prestel, New York.
Simpli-Home | Kitchener 60 Wide TV Media Stand
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Then and Now: Photographs of Nova Scotia by Wallace MacAskill and Len Wagg
A companion photo exhibit to Then and Now, entitled Over His Shoulder, is at the Chase Gallery at the Nova Scotia Archives for the month of October, 2015. Join Len Wagg as he launches the book on Wednesday, October 28th, from 7-9. Visit his Facebook Page and send Len a message for an invitation!
Face Up: Telling Stories of Community LIfe
Face Up: Telling Stories of Community Life is a documentary/public art project that grows out of local conversations about neighborhood goals in Southwest Central Durham, North Carolina. The project blends the Lehman Brady Joint Chair Professorship in Documentary Studies and American Studies at Duke University and the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill with collaborative documentary exploration and art-making in community settings across Durham. The project's open approach to building a loving community encourages diverse participation in the enhancement of the aesthetic environment, as large public art installations expand awareness of historic and contemporary persons and places in Southwest Central Durham.
Simpli-Home | Cosmopolitan TV Media Stand
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Simpli-Home | Warm Shaker TV Media Stand
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Penn Students Discover Unlooted Tomb from the Early Bronze Age
University of Pennsylvania graduate student Matthew Johnson describes his experience as part of an excavation group that discovered a very rare, unlooted tomb from the early Bronze Age in Syria.
Steve Eagle photo exhibit Aug 2014
Photography exhibit by Steve Eagle at the Hope and Feathers gallery in Amherst Massachusetts near the Emily Dickinson Museum
Dannielle Tegeder
In this extra-length webinar, candid teaching artist Dannielle Tegeder gives advice on a plethora of topics, from speaker’s fees and free studio spaces to the difficulties of parenthood for artists.
“When artists are showing 10, 20, 30, 40 years there’s a lot of things that happen in your career, a lot of ups and downs, a lot of different relationships, and maybe a lot of different types of work you make. For me, it’s about really pushing and evolving your work and making good work. Because, when I’m (hopefully) 80, or 90, or 100 years old, I want to be able to look back and say to myself, ‘I made authentic work.’
Dannielle Tegeder is a Brooklyn-based artist working with painting, drawing, installation, animation, and sound-based art. Born in Peekskille, New York, Tegeder received her BFA, with a focus on painting, from the State University of New York at Purchase in 1994. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1997, and she remained in Chicago for approximately ten years before moving to New York City for a studio space courtesy of the Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation. She has since participated in a number of residencies, including ones in New York City organized by SmackMellon, the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Wave Hill, The Studio Museum in Harlem, and Henry Street Settlement, as well as ones outside New York organized by the Yaddo Foundation (Saratoga Springs, NY), Banff Centre for the Arts (Banff, Canada), the Triangle Foundation (Durham, NC), and Ragdale Foundation (Lake Forest, IL). She has been a visiting artist at over forty institutions, including the Maryland Institute of Contemporary Art, Rhode Island School of Design, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Brandeis University, Princeton University, Rice University, and California College of the Arts. Tegeder has held full-time teaching positions at Cornell University and SUNY Purchase. She currently serves as Associate Professor of Art at the City University of New York at Lehman College.
Tegeder has had solo shows at such venues as the Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College (Clinton, NY), the Knoxville Downtown Gallery at the University of Tennessee (Knoxville, TN), Gregory Lind Gallery (San Francisco, CA), the Richard and Dolly Maass Gallery at SUNY Purchase (Purchase, NY), Herter Art Gallery at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst, MA), Müller De Chiara (Berlin, Germany), Galerie Xiappas (Paris, France), and Arrónis Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, Mexico). She has participated in numerous group exhibitions, including ones at the National Gallery of Art (Washington, D.C.), Beta Pictoris Gallery (Birmingham, AL), Islip Art Museum (Islip, NY), Lombard Fried Gallery (New York City, NY), PS1/MoMA (New York City, NY), the Brooklyn Museum of Art (Brooklyn, NY), the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (Chicago, IL), Zacheta National Gallery of Art (Warsaw, Poland), De Hallen Haarlem (Haarlem, The Netherlands), and Galerie Baer (Dresden, Germany). Tegeder currently maintains a studio at The Elizabeth Foundation, and she is married to Mexican conceptual artist Pablo Helgeura and has a young daughter. She also operates the website MOMTRA for art parents.
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Halifax City Hall Stone Carver
The process of carving an historic buidling in the winter is grueling. Find out how intricate carving was done three stories off the ground.
NS Fibre Arts Festival
Nova Scotia Fibre Arts Festival every October in Amherst Nova Scotia
Simpli-Home | Acadian Medium Storage Cabinet
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Hatikvah Gallery Opening
The Hatikvah Holocaust Education Center of Springfield and UMass Amherst are sponsoring the traveling exhibit A Reason to Remember: Roth, Germany 1933-1942 at the Herter Gallery on campus. The exhibit, which continues through April 9, tells the personal stories of five families who lived in a small German village under Nazi rule. More information about the exhibit and gallery hours can be found at the center's Web site.
EUGENE RIPPER - Matador from America MONTREAL - SAT JAN 25 2020 early show 5pm at LESCALIER
MONTREAL - SAT JAN 25 2020 early show 5pm at LESCALIER (552 St Catherine St E) (Canadian punk rock/fast folk pioneer -punk folk, rockabilly, low fi blues, words and beats & rock n roll songwriter)