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EVENT NEWS / January 23, 2007

Special Reception on February 8 Celebrates Three Exhibitions at Boise State University Visual Arts Center

The Visual Arts Center at Boise State University will hold a special reception for three exhibitions from 6-8 p.m. Feb. 8. Admission is free and open to the public; gallery hours are 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and noon-4 p.m. Saturday. Free parking during the reception will be available in the lot between the Liberal Arts Building and the Special Events Center.

Top: Steven Deo Bottom: Erik Waterkotte Click to enlarge image

“Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art” is open now in Gallery 2 in the Hemingway Center. One of the featured artists, Boise State professor of photography Larry McNeil, will talk about the exhibition at 6:30 p.m. Feb. 8. “Disaster Tableau: Recent Prints by Erik Waterkotte” is open now in Gallery 2 in the Hemingway Center. Both exhibitions close Feb. 8. A third exhibition, “The Quiet Art: A Drawing Retrospective by John Taye,” will open Feb. 9 in Gallery 1 in the Liberal Arts Building.

“Migrations” showcases the work of six outstanding Native American artists who migrate between Native American cultures, traditional and contemporary aesthetics and media to represent their experiences. Selected artists participated in two-week printmaking residencies at the Crow’s Shadow Institute of the Arts, the Umatilla Confederated Tribes Reservation, or the Tamarind Institute. The artists, who work in a variety of media, explored printmaking.

The artists collaborated with master printers to create lithographs. The exhibition at the Visual Arts Center includes a selection of prints by Marie Watt (Seneca), Steven Deo (Creek), Tom Jones (Ho Chunk), McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Ryan Lee Smith (Cherokee) and Star Wallowing Bull (Chippewa, White Earth Reservation).

The “Migrations” project was organized by the Tamarind Institute and partially funded by grants from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts. The exhibition will run through Feb. 9 at the Visual Arts Center.

Waterkotte will be at the reception on Feb. 8 to talk about his series “Disaster Tableau.” The series explores “disaster as a landscape in flux” in images that relate to time, landscape and space. Waterkotte is the assistant professor of printmaking at Minnesota State University in Mankato, Minn.

In his artist’s statement, he wrote, “Fluctuating spaces have been a primary interest in my work. The prints in ‘Disaster Tableau’ represent a recent exploration into the image of disaster as a landscape in flux. The mark of devastation is compelling; broken architectures, voids of space and atmosphere distort a once recognizable landscape.”

Taye’s exhibition will run through March 15. Taye is retiring from Boise State after teaching in the Department of Art for many years.

For more information about the exhibitions or the reception, call Kirsten Furlong at 426-3994.

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Media Contact: Julie Hahn, University Communications, (208) 426-5540, juliehahn@boisestate.edu

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