Zuckerman Museum of Art

Today's #FlashBackFriday post goes to recent KSU graduate and student assistant, Tatiana Bell. Tatiana is pictured here outside the museum's front steps showing off two installed reproductions of works by Susan O'Malley. Tatiana studied Interactive Design at KSU and worked as a student assistant and trained docent at the museum for nearly three years. During her time at the ZMA, Tatiana led tours to diverse audiences, participated in an education assistantship, worked specia...l events, assisted in installation periods and administrative projects, and curated a virtual exhibition alongside fellow student assistants. Visit the link below to see the full virtual show and help us congratulate Tatiana on her recent accomplishments and her new job as Communications Manager at Living Walls, the City Speaks! Thanks again for all your hard at the ZMA, Tatiana. "I believe my time at the ZMA set me up for success as an artist, my current internship with Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC), and my upcoming position as Communications Manager for Living Walls, The City Speaks. If I hadn't spent the past three years here, I may not have been inspired to create nor had the materials to do so. I may not have focused so heavily on the arts and become so passionate about our local arts community. Everything I did at the ZMA has set me up for success in my career path." -Tatiana Bell Explore the full student selected virtual exhibition now: https://bit.ly/3d8TDH9 #congratulations #recentgrad #weloveourstudents #studentspotlight #zuckermanmuseum

Check out this mesmerizing view of New York-based artist Leonardo Drew's recent site-specific installation at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art in Hartford, Connecticut, on view now through January 2, 2022. We can't wait for the upcoming solo exhibition of Drew's work in our Don Russell Clayton and Mortin Gallery in the Spring of 2022.

Join us for another free Mindful Dance partnership event with Kennesaw State Counseling and Psychological Services this Friday at 3:00 pm in our Ruth Zuckerman Pavilion! https://bit.ly/35NxYjs

#TBT to our Curatorial Director, Cynthia Nourse Thompson's recent NYC studio visit with artist Leonardo Drew! Cynthia was visiting Drew's studio in preparation for his upcoming spring 2022 solo exhibition at the ZMA! Mark your calendars for the public opening reception of the exhibition "Leonardo Drew: Cycles, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation" on Sunday, February 20, 2022, from 4:00 to 6:00 pm. The artist will also open two exhibitions in... NYC this September at PACE Prints and Gallerie LeLong. The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation is honored to present the exhibition "Leonardo Drew: Cycles, from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation" and to publish the accompanying exhibition brochure as part of an ongoing effort to share work from the collection and to support critical dialogue. #leonardodrew #studiovisit #upcomingexhibition #savethedate

Please join Kennesaw State School of Art and Design this Friday at the Print Studio from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm for some letterpress fun! #printmaking #letterpress #letterpressprinting #artsksu

Watch the premiere this Friday, June 25th, at 7:00 pm (PDT)! http://animationeducatorsforum.org/

Check out Kennesaw State School of Art and Design virtual senior showcase, "Capstone Exhibition: Graphic Communications," online now: https://arts.kennesaw.edu//e/exhibitions/art-4400-4980.php Featuring work by: Jordan Crowl, Valeria Diaz, Shane Lobsinger, and Michael Valenti.

The ZMA Team has been busy this week de-installing our Fall 2020 exhibitions! Check out this time lapse capture of some of our team members taking down works from "it's your world for the moment," which was on view in our Mortin Gallery from August 29th through December 6th. Stay tuned for more behind-the-scenes moments! #Behindthescenes #museummoments #deinstallation

Join Kennesaw State University College of the Arts for the virtual Faculty Research Colloquium tomorrow from 2:00 - 3:15 pm! This will be a great opportunity to learn about the many roles that the arts play in fostering human development and well-being. Exciting projects and research will be presented by KSU faculty. Register now: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35355/production/1030730

You got this, Owls! Good luck on finals!

Check out the Fall 2020 Capstone, Studio Art virtual exhibition now featuring works by Robert Sherer's Art 4990 students. Featured works by Kennesaw State School of Art and Design seniors: Michelle Beadles, Jane Erwin, Tracy Okai, Adrianne Sawyer, and Livie Wang. https://arts.kennesaw.edu//exhibiti/fall-capstone-2020.php

This month we're excited to highlight our Operations Manager, Becky Parker as part of our #StaffSpotlight series! Head over to our Instagram account now to learn more about Becky and check out our story to submit your questions for Becky to answer on Monday on Instagram. https://www.instagram.com/p/CIZPIeRJl2Y/ #MeetTheTeam #StaffFeature #OperationsManager #AskMeAnything #zuckermanmuseum

#Didyouknow we have an Origin Map Project you can participate in virtually? The artworks held in public trust at the Zuckerman Museum of Art were made by artists from many different places across the country and the world. The locations of birth of the artists represented in the exhibition, A Peculiar Proximity to Spiritual Mysteries, span three continents! We have installed a map of the world in our Ruth Zuckerman Pavilion for visitors to share their origins with us! We i...nvite the community to register your place of birth to be added as a pin on our Origins Map now: https://ksucollegeofthearts.wufoo.com/forms/qi3ad2z16ppn6a/ We live in an age when approximately 1 person out of every 30 is an immigrant. The vast majority of American citizens have roots in other parts of the world. Our ‘melting pot’ continues to connect people from distant cultures and walks of life. The Zuckerman Museum of Art celebrates the strength of our diverse Kennesaw State University!

Starting soon - don't miss this chance to hear artist Anthony Goicolea speak!

Tomorrow is your very last chance to see our Fall 2020 exhibitions, "A Peculiar Proximity to Spiritual Mysteries" and "it's your world for the moment." Don't miss these compelling exhibitions; reserve your spot now: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35355/production/1030318 "A Peculiar Proximity to Spiritual Mysteries" showcases various key contemporary works from the Zuckerman Museum of Art's permanent collection. Curated by artist Pablo Helguera and Ginger Wolfe-Suarez, this experi...mental exhibition draws on many rare works of art and some that have never been exhibited. The show features alternative methods of display, supplementary learning experiences, and sound recordings. Preparation for this exhibition included research and curatorial assistance by Michelle Lopez, registrar/collections manager, and collective dialogue and collaboration with the ZMA staff. The curators initially researched artists of diverse cultural backgrounds in the permanent collection of the ZMA and then chose artists to highlight. The highlighted artists employ various techniques to explore issues of identity, race, and cultural origin. They often reference geography, translocation, cultural traditions, translation, political history, and collective memory. Language and storytelling are also common threads woven throughout the exhibition. Issues explored by these artists regarding race, place, and migration continue to be pressing for museums and institutions worldwide. Artists include Tia Blassingame, Mildred Beltre, Canute Caliste, Nayda Collazo-Llorens, Frederick Schiller Cozzens, Jesus De La Rosa, Ruthann Godollei, Sheila Goloborotko, Rogelio Gutierrez, Antonio Jacobsen, Eddy A. López, Athos Menaboni, Ayanah Moor, Michelle Murillo, Grace Rosario Perkins, Robert Sherer, Bernice Sims, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Keith Smith, and Henry Ossawa Tanner. The group exhibition "it's your world for the moment" brings rare and never-been-seen work of historical and cultural significance to the Southeast while also supporting the commissioning of new work made within our region. Our geographic and shared spaces' precariousness is explored through 'environmental portraits,' explorations into ecological sites, and art-making tactics that incorporate cultural and symbolic meanings of both our natural and cultural spaces. Each artist in this exhibition has inexhaustibly created works of art uniquely positioned in the present while having a simultaneous relationship with the past and future. Their work collectively engages concepts of water and land in all of its complexity and precariousness while rigorously engaging ideas of our climate and shared geography. Each artist included has explored our lived human experience here on Earth. Featured artists: Allison Janae Hamilton, Yoshua Okón, Erin Jane Nelson, Ana Mendieta, and Optics Division of the Metabolic Studio (Lauren Bon, Rich Nielsen, and Tristan Duke).

I create narrative tableaus using a variety of media. Whether painting, photography, video, installation, or drawing, my works depict constructed fictional environments inspired by my personal and family history. Growing up Cuban, gay and Catholic in the Deep South during the early 1970s forged my awareness of social constructs such as regional traditions, rituals, and history, and how those elements play out and define arenas of identity and place themes that continually ...inform my work. I do not consider my work intentionally or overtly political. It is a visceral reaction to a lifetime navigating the obscured and fuzzy boundaries between cultures, genders, ages, traditions, and histories. As a result, I naturally gravitate towards the transitional, in-between states that exist along the borders of things. Whether these in-between states are manifest in the changing gradations of light during dawn or dusk, the pubescent journey from childhood to adulthood, or the awkward gestational process of assimilating into a new country and culture, I am interested in monumentalizing these hazily-defined moments. My works act as monuments to the temporary, an ambiguous contradiction born out of conflicting sensations of familiarity and estrangement. The resulting poignant, sometimes cinematic images and installations are characterized by a feeling of dreamlike otherworldliness. The media I use resist clear definition as well. My photographs are digitally composited elements culled from different locations and combined to create new topographies. They are part sculptural documentation, part performance and part installation art. My drawings and paintings are a mash-up of collaged constructions painted on the front and backside of large sheets of layered frosted mylar-film. And my sculptures are hybrids of drawings, photos or paintings, embedded in cast acrylic resin and plaster to render two-dimensional images into three-dimensional installations. An excerpt from Anthony Goicolea’s artist statement Don’t miss your chance to hear Goicolea speak about his work and artistic process tomorrow during our New Visions virtual lecture from 12:00 pm 1:00 pm! Register online now to receive the Zoom link to tomorrow’s conversation here: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35355/production/1033478 Learn more about the Anthony Goicolea now: https://www.anthonygoicoleastudio.com/ Credits: -Anthony Goicolea, TERRARIUM,40 X 40 Inches, Hand Painted Acrylic an Ink on C-Print, Unique Edition of 3 2013. -Anthony Goicolea, TEMPORARY,41 X 40 Inches, C-Print on Di-Bond with Non-Glare UV Plexi Laminate Face Mount, Edition of 9 2013. #virtual #artisttalk #artistlecture #Tomorrow #free #AnthonyGoicolea #newvisons

Join us this week for another #Drawing in the Gallery event tonight from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Tonight we will have a NUDE MODEL in our Mortin Gallery. Visitors are invited to explore our current exhibition, "it's your world for the moment" in-between observational drawings from life. Register online now to reserve your spot: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35355/production/1031863

#FlashbackFriday to our 2019 Visions 37th Annual Student Juried Exhibition. Enjoy these captured moments from the show's opening reception event. This year we're proud to continue this longstanding student exhibition opportunity by presenting New Visions 2021, which provides students across all disciplines of the Kennesaw State School of Art and Design the ability to showcase their talent and skill. The newly revitalized student exhibition series will feature a prominent art...ist, critic, or curator to serve as both juror and visiting lecturer. The juror and guest lecturer for New Visions 2021 is artist, Anthony Goicolea. Find out more about Anthony Goicolea now: https://bit.ly/33IFOuh The application deadline for New Visions 2021 is TODAY! Apply now: https://bit.ly/36HTiZ4

Today is #NationalStressAwarenessDay ! Did you know that art is one of the most effective ways to relieve stress? Join us tomorrow night from 6 to 8 pm for our weekly Drawing in the Gallery program and dedicate some time to being creative and reducing your stress! Register now to reserve your spot: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35355/production/1031863

Kennesaw State University's newest living-learning community, ASCEND, serves first-year students who have dealt with homelessness, food insecurity or the foster care system. Read about the impact this new opportunity has on its residents: https://bit.ly/3jVs0le

We can't wait for next Tuesday's virtual presentation of research projects for the 2nd Kennesaw State University College of the Arts Faculty Research Colloquium. This year's presentations consider the many roles that the arts play in fostering human development and well-being. Register now to get a link to the presentation on Tuesday, November 10th at 2:00 pm: https://bit.ly/38725ox #artsksu #faculitypresentations #virtual #research #Colloquium #upcomingEvents #Free

Today is the last day to submit your design for the KSU Mask Contest! Don't miss your chance to make your mark and play a special part in helping us all #KeepSafeandUnited Submit your design now: https://bit.ly/30ZstMO

This week is the 13th Annual Homelessness Awareness Week at Kennesaw State University. Check out the many events dedicated to increasing awareness of homelessness in our communities and college campuses now: https://bit.ly/34y6YEV

Our Student Assistant Team is dressed up and ready to greet you this Halloween! Stop by the museum now until 5 pm to explore our current exhibitions, reserve your tickets now: https://ci.ovationtix.com/35355/production/1030318 #happyhalloween #weloveourstudents #zuckermanmuseum