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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
Claudia Bernardi "Allow Me To Flower One More Time"

Claudia Bernardi
Tuesday, April 11, 2023, 4:30 - 5:30pm

This lecture will connect the exhibited book "Palabras de Arena" , with the work exhibited in the gallery about Ciudad Juarez, with a project Claudia facilitated in Ciudad Juarez with youth affected by violence. Claudia will focus on the migrant minors crossing the Mexico / US border and will address the murals exhibited at the gallery. Claudia Bernardi is currently exhibiting in Present-Not Present on view February 1 - May 14, 2023. This event is free and open to the public.
Percussion @ Peeler

DePauw Percussion Ensemble
Wednesday, April 5, 2023, 6:30 - 8:30pm

The DePauw Percussion Ensemble presents its annual program of contemporary solo and chamber works for percussion, composed and improvised, in a non-traditional concert setting. Directed by Dr. Ming-Hui Kuo, the one-hour performance fuses contemporary art and music in the galleries at Peeler. Refreshments will be served following the event.
Study Break: Color in Peeler

Peeler Galleries
Thursday, March 9, 2023, 5:00 - 6:30pm

Studying for midterms? Come decompress and color in Peeler's Lower Gallery. We will be coloring pages from books made by In Fly We Trust (aka Brandon Hill), featured in the exhibition Present-Not Present This event is free and open to the public. Supplies and snacks provided!
Artist Talk: Professor John Berry

John Berry
Wednesday, March 8, 2023, 4:30pm

The paintings in Arboreta draw inspiration from the history, structures, and resilience of the Schrebergarten in Leipzig Germany, exploring the implications for how we organize our images, ourselves, and our communities. Hovering between landscape and abstraction, flat shapes compartmentalize space into different surfaces, barricades, and hiding spots. The artifice and ambiguities of spatial illusion are out in the open, weaving a seemingly wider range of frequencies into a smaller, simpler encounter. This event is free and open to the public.