 Check out the Juried Student Exhibition before the show closes on Wednesday, November 29th!
 Congratulation to all the winners at the Juried Student Exhibition!
Outstanding Ceramic's Award: Emily Archer Outstanding 2D Award: Christina Bitson Outstanding Painting Award: Michele Pisano-Spenc Outstanding Photography Award: Miranda Penn Outstanding Underclassman Award: Patrick Dunn Ox-Bow Award: Kellen Taylor Outstanding 3D Award: Sydney St. John Creative Award & Asa Mahan Community Award: Adrian College Art Club, D'Angelo Brown, Amanda LaVigne, Jesse Milan, Tessa Roethemeyer, Bryce Smedley, and Tanner Williams The Annual Juried Student Exhibition is now open and runs until November 29th. Please join us for the opening reception Tuesday November 14th from 5:30-7:30. Awards will be announced at 6pm.  Please consider submitting work to our annual Juried Student Exhibition!
The exhibition will feature art by current Adrian College students. Participating students are not required to be majors in the Department of Art and Design. Work will be selected by Guest Juror Gregory Tom, Gallery Director at Eastern Michigan University. In addition to selecting work for the exhibition, Mr. Tom will award a broad array of prizes, including art supplies, gift certificates, and cash prizes. Last year, the gallery issued over $1,200 worth of awards to student artists. The show is open to all media. This year, submissions will be judged in person. 2D work must be matted to a standard size, ready to frame. Please visit the matting and framing crew in the basement of Mahan, who can help you with this task in advance of submission date. Selected work will be framed post-selection. Students with submissions must bring their work to the Valade Gallery on Thursday, October 26th or Friday, October 27th, between 10 am and 5 pm. Gallery Attendants will be on site to help students complete the proper paperwork. Juror Gregory Tom will select work onsite on Friday, October 27th. Students will be notified of the results on Monday, October 30th. Selected work will stay in the gallery to be immediately installed. Work that is not selected must be picked up from the gallery by Wednesday, November 2nd at 5 pm. We hope to see your work in the gallery this year! JSE 2017 FAST FACTS: Submission Drop Off: Thurs 10/26 + Fri 10/27 10 am to 5 pm, Valade Gallery In-Person Selection: Friday, 10/27 Pick Up Unselected Work : Mon 10/31, Tues 11/1, Wed 11/2 10 am to 5 pm, Valade Gallery Exhibition Dates: 11/6 - 11/29 Reception: Tuesday, 11/14 5:30- 7:30 pm, Awards at 6 pm If you have any questions, please contact gallery director Elspeth Schulze : eschulze@adrian.edu Jon Verney: Solfatara, Photography Exhibition Opens at Adrian College  Image : Jon Verney, Solfatara detail Valade Gallery at Adrian College announces the opening of Solfatara, a solo exhibition of new work by Jon Verney. The show is on display and open to the public through October 25th, with an opening reception on Tuesday, September 26th from 5:30 to 7:30 pm. Verney will deliver an artist talk at 6 pm. Solfatara explores notions of flux, transformation, and transcendence through an engagement with landscape and materiality. The core of Verney’s current work is Thermophile, an ongoing project that explores the possibilities of chemically-altering gelatin silver prints in geothermal springs around the world. By carefully immersing silver-based photos into volcanic hot springs and mud pots, Verney coaxes their imagery through a chaotic transformation; iron, sulfur, copper, aluminum - the atoms of dissolved elements in the waters - bond to the silver in the photographs’ emulsions, fusing and forming new compounds. This mineral abundance, paired with the springs’ acidity and high temperatures, causes each photograph to be redeveloped, altered, and transmuted in a unique manner—no two ever appearing the same. In a parallel studio process, Verney immerses found polaroids into hot water, causing their aged emulsions to steadily unfurl from their acetate bases. Marred by myriad dendritic fractures, the photographs appear to collapse in on themselves, rendering the relative banality of the snapshots into metamorphic abstractions. Some traces of the original imagery remain, connoting an entropic sense of loss and erosion, offering a quiet meditation on the titanic natural forces that shape our world. Jon Verney is a visual artist working in painting, photography, and video. After earning his BFA in Painting from Massachusetts College of Art and Design in 2010, he traveled to Florence, Italy, where he worked for three years at Studio Art Center International. Upon returning to the United States, Verney received his MFA from the Stamps School of Art & Design at the University of Michigan in 2016. During his studies, he received numerous grants to fund his creative research, which included fieldwork in Iceland, the Yellowstone Caldera, and California’s Salton Sea. Verney’s work has been featured on lenscratch.com, and he was a recent artist in residence at the Vermont Studio Center. This fall, Verney will serve as a visiting artist at Hiram College in Ohio, and perform at PVDLoop at AS220 in Providence, Rhode Island. In November, Verney will travel to Finland to participate in an international symposium on painting at the University of Arts, Helsinki. Verney’s studio practice is currently based in Massachusetts. Valade Gallery is located in the rear of Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm. Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu  JILLIAN BROWN: Role-Playing as Masquerade Adrian College, Adrian, MI- Monday September 18 Adrian College is excited to announce the opening of the annual Alumni Art Exhibition in the Nicolay Heritage Room. Role-Playing as Masquerade showcases the photographic work of Jillian Brown. Brown earned her BFA in Studio Art from Adrian College in 2010, and went on to Kendall College of Art and Design, where in 2014 she received her MFA in Photography. Role-Playing as Masquerade explores traditional masquerade to deconstruct contemporary role-playing games such as Dungeons and Dragons, World of Dungeons, and cosplay.This show is on display and open to the public from Monday, September 18th through Friday, October 13th. Join us for an open house during Homecoming Weekend, on Saturday, September 30th from 1:30 pm - 3:30 pm. Role-Playing as Masquerade will be on display in the Nicolay Heritage Room, at the front of Shipman Library on the Adrian College campus.The Nicolay Heritage Room observes Shipman Library open hours, which include Sunday from noon to midnight, Monday through Thursday from 8 am to midnight, Friday from 8 am to 6 pm, and Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm. The exhibition is free and open to the public. Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director: gallery@adrian.edu  quiet quiet Closing Reception
Tuesday, 9/12 from 5:30 to 7:30 pm Artist talk at 6 pm This is a Ribbons of Excellence Sponsored Event! Please join us in Valade Gallery on Tuesday, September 12th to celebrate our latest exhibition. quiet quiet is a showcase of contemporary ceramics by four female artists exploring sculptural and installation based work. Exhibiting artist Kylie Lockwood will be present and there will be free refreshments for all. We hope to see you there! The exhibition is up through Friday, September 15th. Valade Gallery is located in the rear of Shipman Library, on Williams Street on the Adrian College Campus. Free street parking is available. Gallery open hours are Monday through Saturday from 10 am to 5 pm, with extended hours on Tuesday until 7 pm. Contact: Elspeth Schulze, Gallery Director : gallery@adrian.edu  Detroit Based artist Kylie Lockwood will visit Adrian College on Tuesday, September 12th, to conduct critiques with Seniors in the Adrian Art Department. Following critiques, Kylie will head to Valade Gallery, where her work is featured in the current exhibition, quiet quiet. A closing reception for the exhibition will take place in Valade Gallery from 5:30 to 7:30 pm, and Kylie will deliver an artist talk at 6 pm. Join us to celebrate this exciting work!
Kylie Lockwood was born in Detroit, Michigan. She received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 2005, MFA from Hunter College in New York City in 2010 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. She is currently the co-director of Cave, an exhibition space at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, MI. Lockwood’s most recent work was exhibited at Cleopatra’s in Brooklyn, NY, Lord Ludd in Philadelphia, PA, and Condensed Matter Community at the Synchrotron Radiation Center in Stoughton, WI.Kylie Lockwood was born in Detroit, Michigan. She received her BFA from the College for Creative Studies in Detroit in 2005, MFA from Hunter College in New York City in 2010 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2014. She is currently the co-director of Cave, an exhibition space at the Russell Industrial Center in Detroit, MI. Lockwood’s most recent work was exhibited at Cleopatra’s in Brooklyn, NY, Lord Ludd in Philadelphia, PA, and Condensed Matter Community at the Synchrotron Radiation Center in Stoughton, WI. |
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