Sit. Stare.  and  Mail Order Bride

Courtney Macklin BFA, New Media and Rachel Giterman, Art Education exhibit their photography at the Catharine S. Eberly Center for Women, on the UT main campus. The exhibition runs from September 15 - December 15. 

The Impact of Early Art Experiences on Literacy Development

Art Education Professor, Kathy Danko-McGhee, recently traveled to Romania where she conducted research related to her latest publication efforts. "Kathy Danko-McGhee and Ruslan Slutsky have opened up the definition of literacy, analyzing the many components of what literacy means at each of the recognized developmental stages for children aged 0 to third grade. The Impact of Early Art Experiences on Literacy Development shows, through vivid examples, how language arts skills and visual arts skills are intimately linked."

Cathy Weisman Topal
Studio Art Teacher: Smith College Campus School and Center for Early Childhood Education

September 6 – October 4, 2008

Visiting Assistant Professor, Rajorshi Ghosh exhibited a video installation that explores the phenomenology of perception in relation to architecture and the projected image. Ghosh created video installations that involved the projection of virtual spaces into a physical space, inviting the viewer to distinguish between image and architecture. Both the real and the virtual spaces are perceived in relation to one another, creating an in-between space that exists within the void between our perception and imagination. Ordinary Paradise is a new site-specific work that consists of a one-inch wide frame that abuts the four edges of a gallery wall. The projected image is footage of the Pacific Ocean shot in Santa Monica, California, creating an intriguing sensation of the outside seeming to be inside.

Between the Wars: European Works on Paper, 1914-1945

The Toledo Museum of Art

Hitchcock and Stevens Galleries

September 1 – December 30, 2008

Art History Professor, Marc Gerstein is curating Between the Wars: European Works on Paper, 1914 - 1945 at the Toledo Museum of Art. Between the Wars explores the impact of two world wars and of the desire for radical reinvention and renewal in the prints, drawings, and illustrated books of this complex and fertile period.  Drawing on the rich holdings of the Museum in this area, it includes works by Miró, Dalí, Chagall, Picasso, Beckmann, Malevich, Lissitzky, Matisse, and other leading European artists.  The exhibition was organized and texts written by Marc Gerstein, Professor of Art History at the University of Toledo, in conjunction with his Fall semester Art History course “Abstract Art, Dada and Surrealism.”