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Save the Date for Earth Day - Refuse Art Exhibition


DATES OF EXHIBITION: April 21 to May 5, 2014

ARTIST RECEPTION: Tuesday, April 22, 2014 (Earth Day) MCC Forum- R. Thomas Flynn Center

ARTIST LECTURES: Tuesday, April 22, 2014. from 12-2 p.m.in Monroe B.  Artists who have been asked to be a part of this lecture series, which will entail a 10-15 minute talk or demonstration about how they arrived at this work.

Refuse: Garbage, trash, waste, debris, litter, detritus, dross, dregs, leftovers, junk. Environmentalists long before sustainability was imperative, artists have always incorporated the leftovers and detritus of civilization.  Resourceful in their use of tools and materials, an infinite variety of items are intercepted by artists before ending up in landfills, or on the side of the road. For the artist, trash can represent a celebration of sustainable process,  a contemporary genre based on salvaged, or just dedicated ethos to create.

List of participants for Earth Day Refuse Art Exhibition are:

Paul Bartow

Felix Caruchdhes

Jim Downer

Don Elwing

Kathleen Farrell

Jason Flack

Gethro Gaede

Alan Gordon

Chuck Haas

Timothy Massey

Richard Metzgar

Peter Monacelli

Colette Watts Quaglia

Jason Smith

Zirrus VanDevere

George Wegman

Franzie Weldgen

David Werberig

Lawrence (Judd) Williams

Forum Regarding Refuse: Monroe B, Tuesday April 22, from 12-2

Kathleen Farrell, moderator.  Panelists: Paul Bartow, Jim Downer, Richard Metzgar, Peter Moncelli,  Dawn Murphy (art historian) and David Werberig

    Kathleen Farrell
    Visual and Performing Arts
    04/02/2014