Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Coburn Art Gallery CLOSED for Renovations

Coburn Art Gallery will be CLOSED for renovations November 24, 2014-January 14, 2015. Opening Reception January 15 @4:30pm AU Art Dept Faculty Exhibition ! 
Thanks to the AU Facilities !


 

Tuesday, November 11, 2014

Student Art Sale TODAY 10am-3pm

TODAY 10am-3pm Student Art Sale
Artworks priced $3-$40.......ART MAKES THE PERFECT GIFT !

Art Alumnus Artwork Featured in Progressive Art Exhibition

AU Art Alumnus Marissa Uhrig’s (2014 CAGP) artwork entitled "Inspired" was selected from over 400 submitted to be included in the Progressive Employee Art Exhibition which features 40 works created by employees of the Progressive Company. The exhibition opens at the headquarters in Cleveland then travels to other Progressive facilities around the country.

Thursday, November 6, 2014

Karly Beuck-BFA Painting Exhibition: Nov 6-22

Ashland University’s Coburn Art Gallery, in collaboration with the Department of Art, has scheduled its annual fall “Senior Art Exhibition,” which provides a capstone experience for graduating art majors. For students of the liberal arts, the exhibition is the culmination of their undergraduate careers at Ashland University.
An opening reception will be held on Nov. 6 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in the Coburn Gallery inside the Center for the Arts on the AU campus and will kick-off the exhibition, which will run through Dec. 14.
The exhibition will include artworks created by Karly Beuck of Lodi, who is a bachelor of fine arts painting major. Beuck is a fifth-year senior in the BFA program and she has been studying painting for four years as well as art history, and has studied ceramics for two years. She also plays goalkeeper for the varsity soccer team on campus and is a member of Theta Phi Alpha Fraternity.
Beuck’s painting series is titled “Strength: Inferiority Not Consented.” The series presents Greek women out of their mythical contexts and challenges their stories by changing the character’s typical demeanor found in myth into one to be revered and respected in today’s society.
Beuck achieves her message by painting such characters as Medusa, Pandora, Artemis, Atalanta, Amazons Penthesilia and Hippolyta II, as well as a couple lesser-known female figures from Greek mythology, Melinoe, and the sphinx that plagued Thebes. It is due to the raw nature inside herself that drives Beuck to be a strong-willed and competitive woman she has been drawn to these fictional females from the past that are not always seen tough in mind, body and spirit. Beuck have given these women today’s confidence in a time where they were not always portrayed as a role model for society.  Where these women were being defeated, unacknowledged or seemingly unnoticed for their valiant efforts in myth, she, through these portraits, is giving them the respect and recognition they never received.
 
















Friday, October 31, 2014

Thursday, October 23, 2014

ART SATURDAY-November 15th

SIGN UP YOUR YOUNG ARTIST TODAY !

Ashland University’s Coburn Gallery and Art Club have established “Art Saturdays,” an educational and creative experience for children 7 to 12 years old. “Art Saturdays” will be offering a class on the following date – November 15 from 10:00 a.m. to 12 noon in the Room 346  located in the Center for the Arts on the Ashland University campus. Registration is required prior to the Art Saturday activity.  Class sizes are limited.
The November 15 session will explore the abstract sculptor Louise Nevelson and the young artists will be inspired to create a 3- D assemblage sculpture using recycled materials. Cost is $5.00 per child which will benefit Shop With A Cop a local charity. All art materials provided. 

Registration is required prior to the Art Saturday activity. For more information or to register your child for classes, call 419.289. 5652 or emailcoburngallery@ashland.edu.

Friday, October 17, 2014

AU Art Alumni Present Lecture on Creativity

Thanks to AU Alumni Emily Fitch and Casey Snyder for their inspiring lecture on creativity last night !











Wednesday, October 15, 2014

Visiting Art Alumni Thursday Oct 16 @6:30pm Ronk Lecture Hall

On Thursday, Oct. 16, at 6:30 p.m., the Coburn Gallery will host an artist talk on “Exploring Creativity in the Arts.” This talk with feature alumna Emily Fitch, a 2006 graduate with a bachelor of science degree in education with a major in art education who is currently serving as Crestview High School art teacher; and Casey Snyder, a 2010 graduate with a bachelor of fine arts degree in art and an MFA in painting from Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Mich., and currently an adjunct professor of art at Montgomery College in Rockville, Md . The event is free and open to the public. 

Student Artwork Sale Coming Up on November 6 & 11


Friday, October 3, 2014

Art Dept Alumni Exhibition Opening Reception

Art Dept Alumni Exhibition Opening Reception Thursday October 2, 2014
The exhibition includes the following  AU Art Department alumni artists: Joshua Adam Risner, Linsdey (Owen )Robertson, Gwyn (Rohrer ) Griffith, Robin Roberts, Mary Jo Worthington, Dennis Eckert, Diane (Demmer) Gibson, Brandon Doup, Susan Shafer, Kate Wilkinson, Larry Schiemann, Katherine Floit, Ashley Haines, Christopher Triner, Allison (Lawrentz) Barnhart,  Jennifer (Snyder) Irwin, Allison Dieter, Jennifer Winkler, Evan Thomas, Dr. Miles E. Friend, Casey (Snyder) Magrys, Matthew Schiemann, Dan Olson, Emily Fitch, Mindy Wilson Duncan, Thomas Yody, Hallie (Dahlhofer) Le Blanc, Thomas Yody and Caryl Richmond.
On Thursday, Oct. 16, at 6:30 p.m., the Coburn Gallery will host an artist talk on “Exploring Creativity in the Arts.” This talk with feature alumna Emily Fitch, a 2006 graduate with a bachelor of science degree in education with a major in art education who is currently serving as Crestview High School art teacher; and Casey Snyder, a 2010 graduate with a bachelor of fine arts degree in art and an MFA in painting from Kendall College of Art & Design in Grand Rapids, Mich., and currently an adjunct professor of art at Montgomery College in Rockville, Md . The event is free and open to the public.