Fall Exhibits Open at Thorne Art Gallery
From Jackie Hooper, Thorne:
The Thorne Gallery will host a public reception for Downstream: Current Works on Water by Six Artists and another exhibit, _Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art _on Friday, September 11, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Thorne Gallery. Both exhibits will be open from September 12 to November 24.
The importance of water and water conservation is the focus of _Downstream. _Six artists - Christine Destrempes, Janet Fredericks, Amy Jenkins, Mary Lang, Nathalie Miebach, and Marjorie Ryerson - show how water is used as inspiration and metaphor in a variety of innovative media to address the importance of clean drinking water to everyone on earth (more information on this exhibit here).
Exhibited in the same gallery as Downstream will be _Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art. _The Migrations project was developed to identify and showcase emerging Native American artists working with a contemporary vocabulary. The six Native American artists, whose prints are in the Thorne exhibit, Steven Deo (Creek/Euchee), Tom Jones (Ho Chunk), Larry McNeil (Tlingit/Nisgaa), Ryan Lee Smith (Cherokee), Star Wallowing Bull (Chippewa/Arapaho), and Marie Watt (Seneca) represent a wide spectrum of Native American cultures and experiences (more information on this exhibit here).
In conjunction with the Migrations exhibit, Native American artist J. J. Kent will perform on Wednesday, September 16, at 8 p.m., in the Mabel Brown Room in the Student Center. Kent, a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation, specializes in Native American history, story telling, and flute music. He is a speaker, musician, and educator who travels to various educational settings to spread his understanding of his Native culture. He was a nominee at the 2005 Native American Music Awards and the 2004 Indian Summer Music Awards (the Kent performance is co-sponsored by the KSC Campus Commission on Diversity and Multiculturalism and Common Ground Multicultural Club).
Reopening September 12-27 will be the summer exhibit, Keene State College - Celebrating Our Centennial 1909-2009: 100 Years of Academic Community, and Photographs by Andy Warhol and Other Gifts to KSC. (More information on this exhibit here). For more information, call 8-2720 or visit http://www.keene.edu/tsag
