Art21 is a nonprofit dedicated to engaging audiences with contemporary visual art, to inspiring creative thinking, and to educating a new generation about artists working today. Join us on Saturday, November 8 for Art21:SECRETS.
The North Seattle College Art Gallery and the Art Department are pleased to partner with the NSC Library to present this series of free public screenings and discussions of the Art21 documentary TV program series. Join Amanda Knowles,visual artist,NSC Art Instructor and… Show more Gallery Coordinator and Erin Shafkind, visual artist and Art21 Regional Coordinator for these thought-provoking documentaries. Zola Mumford,Reference Librarian, researcher,and film festival curator, represents the NSC Library in co-production of these events.
Screenings are on four Saturdays, Nov. 1, Nov. 8, Nov. 15, and Nov. 22, 2014 from 1pm-2:30 pm. Stay after the film for a discussion with other art enthusiasts and professionals! Free parking. Coming by bus? See http://tripplanner.kingcounty.gov/ .
Program themes include Investigation, Secrets, Legacy and FICTION.
Season 7 features 12 artists from the United States, Europe, and Latin America, and transports viewers to artistic projects around the world. With the help of hundreds of partners, Season 7 episodes will be shown across the U.S. and around the world beginning October 2014 as part of the Art21 Access '14 initiative. For more information about about Season 7, visit: http://www.art21.org/season7/
LOCATION: North Seattle College, 9600 College Way North. All screenings take place inside the Health Sciences and Student Resources (HSSR) building, room 1637A. Look for the blue building on the east side of the courtyard. Parking will be free on campus for these events. Closest parking will be on the East side of campus next to the Education building. From here progress up the stairs and enter first floor of the blue HSSR building. This building is accessible to wheelchair users.
Signs will be posted the day of the screening. Find an online interactive campus map here: https://northseattle.edu/locator
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Art21 - Nov. 8 - SECRETS
How do artists make the invisible visible? What hidden elements persist in their work? Is it the artist's role to reveal them, or not? In this episode, artists share some of the secrets that are intrinsic to their work.
Elliott Hundley draws inspiration from many sources, including Greek tragedy, classical mythology, Japanese woodblock prints, and his own family history. His intricately collaged paintings, teeming with humble materials and ephemera, are like palimpsests that simultaneously reveal and hide meaning. At his Los Angeles home and studio, Hundley works with a team of assistants to create a new series of paintings and sculptures based on the myth of Eurydice and Orpheus. Arlene Shechet is curious about the obscured origins of industrial objects, folding clues about production processes into her handcrafted ceramic sculptures. With their hollow interiors often hidden from view, Shechet's sturdy clay vessels disguise their true nature through dazzling surface effects and the illusion of solidity. For her exhibition Meissen Recast at the RISD Museum in Providence, Shechet juxtaposes her reproductions of original Meissen factory molds made during a residency at the Meissen Manufactory in Germany next to the original Meissen porcelain dating back to the 18th century, revealing the usually hidden industrial roots of those objects. Trevor Paglen makes the invisible visible, documenting evidence of the American surveillance state of the 21st century. Concerned with the politics of perception, Paglen investigates the development of machines that see and the historical relationship between photography and military technology.
Join us on Saturday, November 15 for the next Art21 documentary, themed LEGACY!
http://www.art21.org/films/legacy
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