Parkland College has named its art gallery after college trustee and former faculty member Donna Giertz.
Giertz
and her husband, Fred Giertz, recently provided a generous gift to
support the Parkland Art Gallery, according to Parkland College
Foundation Director Linda Myette. In recognition of this gift and
Giertz’s 20+ years of service to Parkland, the college has named the
existing gallery "The Donna Hyland Giertz Gallery," also known as "The
Giertz Gallery at Parkland College."
Official recognition of
the renaming will take place Thursday, Aug. 21 at 6 p.m., when the
gallery will hold a dedication ceremony during its annual Art and
Design Faculty Exhibition Reception.
Opened year-round to the
public since 1981 and free of charge, the art gallery features a
professionally designed space situated in the main part of campus,
central to student life and readily available to the community.
It
is a teaching gallery, holding annual exhibitions and educational
programs that promote the development of artists’ talent and aesthetic
awareness. At the same time, the gallery strives to meet the cultural
needs of its surrounding communities, expanding general audiences’
appreciation of various art forms. It presents exhibitions by
contemporary artists of regional and national status and illustrates a
wide range of traditional and innovative work.
For many years,
Donna and Fred Giertz have shown dedication to the arts and education
in this community. Their contributions to the Krannert Art Museum at
the University of Illinois helped to create the Fred and Donna Giertz
Education Center. Dedicated to integrating art appreciation and art
history into humanities and science instruction at all levels, the
center circulates education materials to schools, libraries, and other
community sites, including videos, teacher manuals, art prints, art
replicas, and more.
Donna Giertz was a professor of marketing,
management and international business at Parkland from 1980 to 2003,
and was elected to the Parkland Board of Trustees in April 2005. She is
a graduate of Nazareth College, Rochester, New York and earned both an
MS in Personnel Counseling and an MBA from Miami University, Oxford,
Ohio. She taught business-related courses at Miami University from 1973
to 1980. Fred Giertz is a professor of economics at the University of
Illinois. The Giertzes are active community members, involved with such
organizations as C-U Sunrise Rotary, Krannert Art Museum Council,
Krannert Art Museum Director’s Circle, Champaign Township, as well as
with their Precinct Committee.
The Giertz Gallery will continue
to offer an extensive exhibition calendar that includes solo and group
shows. The gallery hosts the State of the Art: National Biennial
Ceramics Invitational on alternating years and engages a guest curator
so that the exhibitions continue to reflect current and varied
perspectives. Its annual Art and Design Faculty Exhibition highlights
the talent of the Faculty at Parkland College in Art and Graphic Design
and supports the educational mission of the Fine Arts Program. In
addition, two juried exhibitions of works, by Parkland Art and Design
and Graphic Design program students, provide practice in exhibiting art
work in a professional space and allow the community to see the talents
and efforts of emerging artists.
To interpret many of its
exhibitions and broaden its audience base, the Giertz Gallery will
continue to hold artist receptions, gallery lectures and tours; "For
Art's Sake" videotaped interviews with artists aired on the Parkland
College Television Station; its popular High School Art Seminar;
screenings of the Global Lens Film Series; and other special events.
Friday, June 6, 2014
Friday, March 14, 2014
Art & Design Students Win Awards
Four Parkland Students won merit awards at this year's Illinois Community College Juried Exhibition at Governors State University's Fine Art Gallery. To view some of the works in the show, including the four Parkland award winners visit http://www.govst.edu/uploadedFiles/Academics/Colleges_and_Programs/CAS/Center_for_Law_Enforcement_Technology_Collaboration%281%29/CLETC_Inside_Pages/2014ICCJE_AWARDSforweb.pdf
We are very proud of our talented students and want to congratulate all six who were chosen to exhibit in this year's show.
Chan Bao - Merit Award
Julio Gaytan - Merit Award
Leila Ghasempoor - Merit Award
Eunsook Park - Merit Award
Erin Rogers
Al Tindle
We are very proud of our talented students and want to congratulate all six who were chosen to exhibit in this year's show.
Chan Bao - Merit Award
Julio Gaytan - Merit Award
Leila Ghasempoor - Merit Award
Eunsook Park - Merit Award
Erin Rogers
Al Tindle
Art & Design student lectures airing on PCTV
Last semester two of our talented Art & Design students gave presentations on experiences they recently had away from our campus and now you can view those lectures on PCTV. The lectures will air this Friday, Saturday, and Sunday at 11am and 9pm.
In 2011, Eric was awarded the Don Lake Art Scholarship and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship. That summer Eric traveled to Arrowmont in the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains to attend a week-long workshop in resin casting. Asking himself, “Why not?” He encased a raw slab of bacon in resin. This piece won a Merit Award in the 2012 Governor’s State Community College Juried Art Exhibition. Always the curious learner, Eric traveled to Guinea, West Africa to learn traditional lost-wax bronze casting through Antioch University. For six months Eric apprenticed with master caster, Sekou Berete.
After graduating from Parkland in May 2013 with an AFA, Ruta Rauber continued her exploration of metal smithing and ceramics. She received the Metals Award in 2012 and is the 2013 recipient of the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts Scholarship. “Beyond the Bezel” gave her the opportunity to explore the use of cold connections (rivets, tubing, prongs, etc.) in combination with found objects. Her supply kit not only included sheets of copper and brass, copper wire and solder but also foreign coins, bottle caps, postage stamps, game pieces, metal scraps and other ephemera. “The use of cold connections allows me the freedom to assemble components that would not normally go together. I am drawn to collage and mixed media and am challenged in combining old with new, traditional with non-traditional, permanent with ephemeral. Objects that would otherwise be cast off or forgotten in a junk drawer are given a new life as pieces of wearable art.”-R. Rauber
In 2011, Eric was awarded the Don Lake Art Scholarship and the Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship. That summer Eric traveled to Arrowmont in the foothills of the Great Smokey Mountains to attend a week-long workshop in resin casting. Asking himself, “Why not?” He encased a raw slab of bacon in resin. This piece won a Merit Award in the 2012 Governor’s State Community College Juried Art Exhibition. Always the curious learner, Eric traveled to Guinea, West Africa to learn traditional lost-wax bronze casting through Antioch University. For six months Eric apprenticed with master caster, Sekou Berete.
After graduating from Parkland in May 2013 with an AFA, Ruta Rauber continued her exploration of metal smithing and ceramics. She received the Metals Award in 2012 and is the 2013 recipient of the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts Scholarship. “Beyond the Bezel” gave her the opportunity to explore the use of cold connections (rivets, tubing, prongs, etc.) in combination with found objects. Her supply kit not only included sheets of copper and brass, copper wire and solder but also foreign coins, bottle caps, postage stamps, game pieces, metal scraps and other ephemera. “The use of cold connections allows me the freedom to assemble components that would not normally go together. I am drawn to collage and mixed media and am challenged in combining old with new, traditional with non-traditional, permanent with ephemeral. Objects that would otherwise be cast off or forgotten in a junk drawer are given a new life as pieces of wearable art.”-R. Rauber
Art Faculty Featured
Parkland College art faculty talent will be featured on the national
stage next week during a ceramic arts educators conference in Milwaukee.
Art
and Design faculty Chris Berti and Laura O'Donnell will play a role at
the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts' 48th annual conference,
March 19–22. O'Donnell, an art history instructor at Parkland, will be
the discussion leader for conference topic "The Figure In, On, or Of
Clay" while Berti, a sculptor and Parkland professor of ceramics, will
serve as curator for a featured exhibit, "The Figure in Clay," to be
held in conjunction with the conference.
O'Donnell's session will explore why the human form has remained such a fascinating subject and concept for thousands of years in ceramic art. "The figure in, on, or of clay is an expression of both its subject matter and its physical medium," O'Donnell said in a statement about the session. "The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of ceramic artists using the figure. What do they say about contemporary society?"
O’Donnell
has an MA in Art History and an MFA in Ceramics both from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her writing has been
published in Ceramics Art and Perception, Ceramics Technical, and Critical Ceramics, as well as in several exhibition catalogues. Her artwork appears in 10 of Lark’s 500 Series books featuring ceramic art, and she exhibits regularly at Cinema Gallery in Urbana.
As part of the conference, “The Figure in Clay” exhibition, curated by Berti, will be held at the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee March 19–April 19. This showing examines the work of an international group of contemporary artists who use clay as a medium to interpret the figure as both subject and content.
Berti is an active NCECA exhibitor with works in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and the Frederick Meijer Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids.
-Article by Ruthie Counter
Art
and Design faculty Chris Berti and Laura O'Donnell will play a role at
the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts' 48th annual conference,
March 19–22. O'Donnell, an art history instructor at Parkland, will be
the discussion leader for conference topic "The Figure In, On, or Of
Clay" while Berti, a sculptor and Parkland professor of ceramics, will
serve as curator for a featured exhibit, "The Figure in Clay," to be
held in conjunction with the conference.O'Donnell's session will explore why the human form has remained such a fascinating subject and concept for thousands of years in ceramic art. "The figure in, on, or of clay is an expression of both its subject matter and its physical medium," O'Donnell said in a statement about the session. "The past decade has witnessed a proliferation of ceramic artists using the figure. What do they say about contemporary society?"
O’Donnell
has an MA in Art History and an MFA in Ceramics both from the
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her writing has been
published in Ceramics Art and Perception, Ceramics Technical, and Critical Ceramics, as well as in several exhibition catalogues. Her artwork appears in 10 of Lark’s 500 Series books featuring ceramic art, and she exhibits regularly at Cinema Gallery in Urbana.As part of the conference, “The Figure in Clay” exhibition, curated by Berti, will be held at the Tory Folliard Gallery in Milwaukee March 19–April 19. This showing examines the work of an international group of contemporary artists who use clay as a medium to interpret the figure as both subject and content.
Berti is an active NCECA exhibitor with works in the permanent collections of the Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; and the Frederick Meijer Sculpture Park in Grand Rapids.
-Article by Ruthie Counter
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