Spring 2011 Events
F E B R U A R Y
Art Forum: ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (ART21): POWER - Film
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 11:30 AM, GC65
Power, an Art21 documentary explores the works of the artists Cai Guo-Quang, Laylah Ali, Krzysztof Wodiczko, and Ida Applebroog, and concludes with an original video artwork by Teresa Hubbard/Alexander Birchler. The film explores how issues of violence, domination and control pervade daily life, while letting the viewer encounter the creative process in action and hear what cutting-edge artists are thinking about their work.
Art Forum: THE TRANSFORMING POWER OF ART- Stephen Shames
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 11:45 AM, GC65
The Art Forum Committee is proud to present a lecture by photojournalist Stephen Shames. Shames is well known for his photographs spanning a career of more than 40 years. A recent assignment in Uganda changed not only the path of his career, but the man himself. Shames will speak about his early work, photographs documenting the Black Panthers in the 1960's, to his present day commitment in Uganda, focusing on the true transformative power of art.
In addition, students and faculty may meet Shames at the artist's reception for TRANSFORMING LIVES: Photographs from Uganda, that evening, February 3rd, from 5 - 7 pm in the Gallery. (PLEASE NOTE: The artist's reception is not a yellow card event)
Art Forum: PETER MORIARITY: A TEACHING PORTFOLIO – Peter Moriarity
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 6:30 PM, GC65
For three decades Peter has been a teacher both in Vermont and New York. He has taught a range of students from MFA degree candidates to high school adolescents. He is currently a senior teacher at the Trinity School in New York City. Within his talk he will discuss original prints that he has collected as a way to provide a context for emerging visual artists. He is the author of Lotte Jacobi Photographs (David Godine Publisher 2003). His pictures have been shown at the Eastman House, the Fogg Museum, The Addison Gallery of American Art and the Smithsonian Institution among other venues. In the summer of 2010 he had a major grant to photograph in the UK, Belgium and France.
Art Forum: ACADEMY OF ART SAN FRANCISCO – Lindsay Oesch
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 15, 11:30 AM, GC65
Lindsay Oesch, the Regional Outreach Consultant at the Academy of Art University, will discuss the school's admission/transfer process and the degree programs offered. Majors at the academy include: Advertising, Animation and Visual Effects, Fashion, Fine Art, Game Design, Graphic Design, among others. Don't miss this opportunity to learn about how you can, as their website states, "Do what you love as a living."
Art Forum: ART21: PROTEST – Film
THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 11:30 AM, GC65
The ART21 documentary, Protest, examines the ways in which contemporary artists picture and question war, express outrage, and empathize with the suffering of others. The artists interviewed use visual art to provoke personal transformations and question social revolutions. The film includes the work of artists Jenny Holzer, Alfredo Jaa, An-My Le, and Nancy Spero.
M A R C H
Art Forum: PORTFOLIO PREP WORKSHOP
TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 11:30 AM, GC65
Photography Department Technician Larry Chatterton and Professor Carolyn Monastra will give a joint presentation on how to put your best work together and prepare a strong portfolio for the upcoming Art Department Scholarships or for transfer portfolio reviews. If you want to get ahead with your art, it is very important that you know how to organize a strong portfolio. A matt cutting demo will be accompanied by a discussion on editing and presenting your work.
Art Forum: CREATING A 3-D VIDEO GAME: PROCESS AND PRODUCTION
THURSDAY, MARCH 3, 11:30 AM, GC65
Please join us for this inspiring and informative event. Learn about the process and software used for the production of the Macky's Mountain Adventure 3D video game. Meet the NCC students who created the game from scratch last semester and finished it in only two months. The students started with a story and a clay sculpture that was scanned in using a 3D laser scanner. A total of three different academic departments including seven art classes were involved. In addition to building the game, the design team participated in a student online community forum, created a documentary video of the process and much more. Play the game now on Kongregate.com or download it from the Android Market.
Art Forum: TRANSFORMING LIVES: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM UGANDA, WALK-THROUGH TOUR
FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 2:00 PM, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, CCB 140
Lynn Rozzi will walk students through the current Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery exhibit, Transforming Lives:Photographs from Uganda by Stephen Shames. The walk-through will include an explanation on the successful completion of the Gallery questionnaire.
Art Forum: TRANSFORMING LIVES: PHOTOGRAPHS FROM UGANDA, WALK-THROUGH TOUR
TUESDAY, MARCH 8, 6:30 PM, Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery, CCB 140
Lynn Rozzi will walk students through the current Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery exhibit, Transforming Lives:Photographs from Uganda by Stephen Shames. The walk-through will include an explanation on the successful completion of the Gallery questionnaire.
Art Forum: "YOU'RE AN ARTIST, NOW WHAT?"
THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 11:30 AM, GC65
Sponsored by the Computer Graphics Club. No matter how good you are, every artist needs a vision and a plan. Where do you start? Learn some practical tips to marketing your art by someone who has taken that path. You will find out what it takes to get your "voice" seen and heard. Spend a session with the colorist Joanne Thorne Arnold who will share her experiences in getting work "out there."
Art Forum: REFLECTIONS AND PERCEPTION
TUESDAY, MARCH 15, 11:30 AM, GC65
Brazilian artist Gustavo von Ha returns to NCC to discuss the work from his "Private Addiction"installation through his latest 2011 series. His recent solo exhibition in Tokyo, "Double Crossing,"appropriates the work (particularly drawing) of important twentieth-century Brazilian artists Tarsilado Amaral and Jose Leonilson. In this lecture, he will also discuss Walter Benjamin and his Auraconcept, Lewis Carroll (mirrors' logical and nonsense meanings) and others who have studiedoptical tools to produce art after Renaissance.
Art Forum: THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS
TUESDAY, March 15, 6:00 – 8:00 pm, in the Student Lounge,the Upper Atriumof the CCB
As part of Evening Club Hour, the NCC Photography Club will be hosting their 3rd annual Springexhibit entitled "Through the Looking Glass." The show will feature work by the Photography Department students as well as club members. Come see an exciting variety of work. All are welcome!
Art Forum: ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (ART21): ECOLOGY
TUESDAY, MARCH 22, 11:30 am, GC65
This ART21 film delves into the work of four contemporary artists (Ursula von Rydingsvard, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Robert Adams, and Mark Dion) who explore the relationship of nature and culture,including the submission of wilderness to civilization, the foundations of scientific knowledge, theimpact of technology on biology, and our relationship to the earth forged by working the land.
Art Forum: THE BARNES FOUNDATION/FABRICWORKSHOP – Bus Trip (Philadelphia)
SATURDAY, MARCH 26, 8:30 am - 7:30 pm - Sign Up in the Art Office G179
The Barnes Collection of Impressionism is moving to a new location. This is the last opportunity tosee the collection here! The Fabric Workshop is one of the most unique workshops for emerging and famous international artists. Sign-up for the trip is in the Art Department office: G 179. The initial $5.00 fee will be returned when boarding the bus. The bus will leave from the G building parking lot.
Art Forum: SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ARTAND DESIGN
TUESDAY, MARCH 29, 11:30 AM, GC65
Michelle Garrigan, Senior Admission Representative of the Savannah College of Art and Design(SCAD), will give a presentation covering this dynamic art school's numerous degree programsand comprehensive services. The college's admissions process and portfolio requirements willbe discussed.
Art Forum: PHOTOS IN ACTION
THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 11:30 AM, GC65
Charlie Samuels is an internationally published photojournalist specializing in action-sports, photoessaysand portraiture. Known for his ability to capture motion, his photographs have appearedin ad campaigns, numerous books and publications including Sports Illustrated, Business Week, GQ, National Geographic Adventure, People, Time, Newsweek, ESPN, Maxim, and the top frontpages of The New York Times and nytimes.com. He has exhibited in art galleries in Los Angeles,Miami and New York City; his portraits include notable politicians, executives, athletes and artists. Charlie is also the Director of Photography on several documentaries, short films and multi-mediaproductions. Samuels will show his work, explain how he started his career (in college) and suggest how studentscan get their work seen and published. Photo essays, visual storytelling and the new media will alsobe discussed. A question and answer period will follow.
A P R I L
Art Forum: THE MAKING OF "AVATAR" and WHAT'S NEXT IN FILMMAKING?
MONDAY, APRIL 4 at 12:30pm, CCB Multipurpose Room
Jon Landau is the producer of the two highest grossing movies of all times, "Avatar" and "Titanic." As Executive Vice President at Twentieth Century Fox in the 1990s, he supervised production of "Die Hard 2," "Mrs Doubtfire," "True Lies," and more. Audience members should be prepared to show their NCC IDs at the entrance door. Seating is limited. Art Forum yellow cards will be distributed after the program, near the entrance to the CCB Multipurpose Room.
Art Forum: MEGAN CUMP
TUESDAY, APRIL 5, 11:30 AM, GC65
Megan Cump will present her photographic series "Feral" and "Darkening." "Feral" was shot while on solitary Kayaking and hiking trips using a medium format camera and basic camping supplies. In many photographs, traces of the artist's body are visible as she merges with, takes refuge in, and loses herself in the natural world. "Darkening" reveals nighttime worlds otherwise undetected. In this work, Cump builds on photography's historic relationship with making the "unseen" visible and in the creation of this series she adapts scientific and stealth imaging techniques towards poetic ends. Megan Cump's photographs fuse a gothic sensibility and performative elements with traditional landscape imagery, in order to explore the metaphoric potential of the environment.
Cump received an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BA from Macalester College. She has exhibited at venues such as White Columns. Randall Schott Gallery, Bronx Museum of Art, Islip Art Museum and ARENA Gallery – all in New York; as well as Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, American University Museum Katzen Art Center in Washington D.C., and Florida Atlantic University Gallery in Boca Raton among other venues. Cump has been awarded two MacDowell Colony fellowships, an L.M.C.C. Workspace fellowship, and she is currently on faculty at ICP.
Art Forum: AN AUDIENCE WITH JACK SMITH AT THE BOTTOM OF THE POOL
MONDAY, APRIL 11, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM, GC65
Jack Smith (1932 - 1989) was an American photographer, actor, and pioneer of underground cinema. He is acclaimed as a founding father of American performance art whose work has influenced both artists ranging from Laurie Anderson to Federico Fellini and glam-rock performers ranging from David Bowie to Lou Reed. Please join us for this group presentation by three friends and collaborators of Smith, who will discuss Smith's life and work, and show slides and video clips from his performances and films.
Yolanda Hawkins, a founder and president of the True Comedy Theatre Company and co-founder of Group Material, works in alternative theater as actor, director and theater artist. Having met Jack Smith in the late '70s she was asked by him to help with various projects as a photographer or seamstress or sounding board and became fascinated by his mind and his way of working. He entered and exited her existence in several stormy episodes and somehow exerts a hold on her consciousness to this day.
John Matturri is a photographer and teaches philosophy and film at Queens College. He worked with Jack Smith, primarily on slideshow projects, in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
William Niederkorn is a playwright and theatre composer who helped found True Comedy Theatre Company in 1986, and has been its artistic director ever since. He was a close artistic associate of Jack Smith in the last years of his life, helping with ongoing projects and casting Jack as Upton Sinclair in his play "The Chaplin Acts" in 1988. Jack was enamored with the role ("I get to play a socialist!" he said) but performed it only once, brilliantly, in rehearsal, for an audience of one.
Art Forum: ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (ART21): CONSUMPTION - Film
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 11:30 am, GC65
How does contemporary art address the idea of consumption? How do artists question commonly held assumptions about commerce, mass media, and consumer society? The Art21 documentary "Consumption" explores these questions through the work of the artists Barbara Kruger, Michael Ray Charles, Matthew Barney, Andrea Zittel, and Mei Chin.
Art Forum: LYME ACADEMY OF ART COLLEGE
TUESDAY, APRIL 26, 11:30 AM, GC65
Director of Admission, Sarah Churchill, will discuss how Lyme Academy of Art College located in CT, offers Bachelor of Fine Arts degrees in Drawing, Illustration, Painting, and Sculpture. Its mission is to provide the best education in drawing, illustration, painting, and sculpture through study of the history, traditions, and principles of the fine arts and the liberal arts, thereby establishing a comprehensive foundation for the development of the artist.
Art Forum: SCHOOL OF THE ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 11:30 AM, GC65
Greyson Hong, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admission for the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC), will discuss the wonderful opportunities and resources offered at one of the most influential art schools in the country. The college's admissions process and portfolio requirements will be discussed.
M A Y
Art Forum: CREATIVE CLASH!
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 11:45 AM, The Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery (CCB 140) and Upper Atrium
The Firehouse Plaza Art Gallery is proud to present an interdepartmental celebration of creative students' achievements in the arts at Nassau Community College. Some of the participating departments include Art, Theatre and Dance, Music, English, Fashion and Merchandising. The event will include raffle prizes and light refreshments. Yellow cards will be distributed at this Art Forum event.
Art Forum: REFLECTIONS OF THE SOUL
TUESDAY, MAY 3, 11:30 AM, GC65
Martin Spett was born in Tarnow, Poland in 1928. His mother was an American citizen and his father was a Polish Jew. Martin, his younger sister, and parents were trapped in Poland during WWII. They experienced life in the Tarnow ghetto, slave labor, incarceration in a political prison in Krakow, Poland, and spent two years in Bergen Belsen Concentration Camp in Germany during that period. After they were liberated in 1945, the Spett's were sent to a displaced persons camp for a few months and then went to Belgium for the next two years. After coming to the United States in 1947, Martin attended the School of Cartoonists and Illustrators of America in Manhattan, New York, which is currently known as the School of Visual Arts.
Martin feels that Art is created out of a human need for expression and communication and he further says, each painting reflects the soul of the artist, the inner psyche of his thoughts and feelings. Visual art is extremely vital in educating people about the consequences of ignorance, hate, bigotry, and intolerance, which are now so prevalent around the world. In the case of the Holocaust survivor, the beauty or the horror of the past, in which time the survivor tries to rationalize the horror which he or she experienced to no avail, it is the canvas which reveals the true reflection. Martin compiled twenty-two oil paintings on the Holocaust and this collection is called, Reflections of the Soul.
Art Forum: ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY (ART 21): CONSUMPTION – Film
FRIDAY, MAY 6, 2:00 PM, GC65
How does contemporary art address the idea of consumption? How do artists question commonly held assumptions about commerce, mass media, and consumer society? The Art21 documentary "Consumption" explores these questions through the work of the artists Barbara Kruger, Michael Ray Charles, Matthew Barney, Andrea Zittel, and Mei Chin.