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Artist Talk: Laura Mongiovi

Laura Mongiovi
Thursday, September 14, 2023 4:30 to 5:30

Join us for an artist talk by Laura Mongiovi, discussing her art and exhibition at DePauw. This event is free and open to the public.
Curator Talk: co-curators Ian Brundige '22 and Alyssa Flory '22

Ian Brundige 22 and Alyssa Flory 22
Wednesday, September 5, 2023 4:30 to 5:30

In Peeler’s Lower Gallery, co-curators Ian Brundige ‘22 and Alyssa Flory ‘22 will discuss the curatorial process behind planning the exhibition We Love Having You Here: Expressions of Identity in DePauw’s Art Collections at their alma mater, including how the nature of DePauw University’s various collections affected their decision-making. The exhibition connects over 70, at times seemingly, unrelated objects into a conversation about gender, sexuality, and the intersections of identity. This event is free and open to the public.
Talk: Bruce Walker '53

Bruce Walker 53
Saturday, June 3, 2023, 2:30 - 4:30pm

Join us in welcoming Bruce Walker '53 back to DePauw University! Please enjoy the objects that he donated to DePauw on display in this exhibition. This event is free and open to the public.
"Reflection on the present using protest photos from the past: responding to press photos from the collection of Public Collectors"

Marc Fischer
Saturday, May 6, 2023, 10-2pm

Join artist Marc Fischer for a workshop day. Marc will be giving a lecture in the Peeler Art Center on Friday afternoon and this workshop on Saturday. Come make a written or visual response to press photos documenting protests from around the 1960s-90s. Edit copies of images with software in the computer lab or manipulate the copies physically. This event is free and open to the public. More Information to Come. Temporary Services Half Letter Press Public Collectors
Artist Talk: Marc Fischer

Marc Fischer
Friday, May 5, 2023, 4:30 - 5:30pm

Temporary Services is Brett Bloom and Marc Fischer. We are based in Ft. Wayne (IN) and Chicago. Salem Collo-Julin worked with us from 2001-2014. We have existed, with several changes in membership and structure, since 1998. We produce exhibitions, events, projects, and publications. The distinction between art practice and other creative human endeavors is irrelevant to us. The best way of testing our ideas has been to do them without waiting for permission or invitation. We invent infrastructure or borrow it when necessary. We were not taught this in school. We try different approaches, inspired by others equally frustrated by the systems they inherited, who created their own methods for getting work into the public. Temporary Services started as an experimental exhibition space in a working class neighborhood of Chicago. Our name directly reflects the desire to provide art as a service to others. It is a way for us to pay attention to the social context in which art is produced and received. Having “Temporary Services” displayed on our window helped us to blend in with the cheap restaurants, dollar stores, currency exchanges, and temporary employment agencies on our street. We were not immediately recognizable as an art space. This was partly to stave off the stereotypical role we might have played in the gentrification of our neighborhood. We weren’t interested in making art for sale. Within the boundaries of “what sells” artists often carve out tiny aesthetic niches to protect, peddle, and repeat indefinitely, rather than opening themselves up to new possibilities. Experiencing art in the places we inhabit on a daily basis remains a critical concern for us. It helps us move art from a privileged experience to one more directly related to how we live our lives. A variety of people should decide how art is seen and interpreted, rather than continuing to strictly rely on those in power. We move in and out of officially sanctioned spaces for art, keeping one foot in the underground the other in the institution. Staying too long in one or the other isn’t healthy. We are interested in art that takes engaging and empowering forms. We collaborate amongst ourselves and with others, even though this may destabilize how people understand our work. This event is free and open to the public. Temporary Services Half Letter Press Public Collectors
Clay Modeling Workshop

Peeler Galleries
Saturday, April 29, 2023, 1-3pm

Join us in the Peeler Lobby to build your own Moche-style clay pot! This is an activity related to the "Modeling the Moche Worlds" Exhibit, 2nd Floor Cabinet. This event is free and open to the public. *this event is not a punch card for students enrolled in a studio art or art history course.
Senior Art Exhibition: Artist Talks and Opening Reception

Peeler Galleries
Friday, April 21, 2023, 5-7pm

An annual exhibition featuring the work of graduating senior studio art majors.
Faculty Roundtable: Collecting, Stewarding, and Exhibiting Indigenous Objects

Lydia Marshall, Rebecca Shindler, and Natalia Vargas Márquez
Tuesday, April 18, 2023, 4:30 - 5:30pm

DePauw professors Dr. Lydia Marshall (Anthropology), Dr. Rebecca Schindler (Classical Studies), and Dr. Natalia Vargas Márquez (Art History) will engage in a conversation around some of the ethical and material concerns about the ways Indigenous-made objects are exhibited, studied, and collected, in museums and universities. This roundtable will be moderated by members of NAIPA (Native American and Indigenous Peoples Association). This event is framed in the context of the exhibit “Modeling the Moche Worlds. The Ritual, Natural, and Supernatural Vessels at DePauw’s Art Collection,” curated by the students of the course “Art of the Ancient Americas”, opening on march 22nd in the second-floor cabinet of Peeler galleries.
Artist Talk: Claudia Bernardi

Claudia Bernardi
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 11:40am - 12:10 pm

In a fresco, the pigments are not painted on the wall they are embedded in plaster in such a way that the pigments become the wall. In my work, I depart from the same principle: the pigments become the paper. I use pure pigments that are embedded in the paper by the pressure of a printing press. No binder, oil or medium is used in this process allowing the pigments to maintain their purest intensity. Each fresco on paper is the result of multiple runs through a printing press where layers of pure powdered pigments are pressed into wet paper. The coloration, often times, is a process of subtraction, a scraping away from the layers, a patient uncovering of colors reacting among themselves alchemically. For the last thirty years, I have collaborated with the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team in investigations of violations of Human Rights. The task of the AFAT is to perform exhumations of mass graves investigating crimes against civilian population. I participated in exhumations in El Salvador, Guatemala, Argentina, and Ethiopia. My artwork is profoundly influenced by these experiences. Not only in the narrative aspect of the piece but, most importantly, in the conceptual realm of finding images through the searching of layers of colored dust. I scratch the surface of the piece identifying human figures that interact with the world of the hidden images. The pigments convey the essential material prima. The intensity and the fugitive condition of pigments, so fragile yet persistent, are metaphors of the elusiveness of life and the never-ending determination of hope. The installations are frequently created upon testimonies recovered during the exhumations. I conceptualize each installation as a documentary, departing from the reports presented by the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team to the Supreme Court of the country where the investigation takes place. The reports narrate, chronologically, the findings of human remains and associated objects constructing a historical account of the massacre. The creation of artifacts and associated objects resembling the actual findings convey my visual response to the violence that I had witnessed. My intention goes beyond political criticism. It is a way of retaining the communal memories of the survivors. The limited-edition of 12 books entitled “Palabras de Arena/ Words of Sand” was inspired by the stories I heard, and what I saw in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. In 2013, the International Committee of the Red Cross invited me to conduct and facilitate a collaborative and community-based project with youth affected by the effects of violence. Many of the participants were sons and daughters of the disappeared women in Juarez. The poems and the artworks meet upon the line that divides the vastness of the desert, ample with secrets that no one dares to address, the many layers of truth that can only be whispered, the presence of the missing women in their absence. The desert becomes an open wound that holds the lives and deaths of the countless Mujeres de Juarez. -Claudia Bernardi
Lunch with Guest Artist Claudia Bernardi

Claudia Bernardi
Wednesday, April 12, 2023, 12:30 - 1:30pm

Join guest artist Claudia Bernardi for an informal lunch. Claudia Bernardi is currently exhibiting in Present-Not Present on view February 1 - May 14, 2023. For more information about Claudia please visit her website. Please RSVP on Campus Lab