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Yoga @ Peeler

Peeler Galleries
Thursday, November 21, 2019, 7:30pm

Join instructor Marla Helton of Serendipity Yoga Studio for a hour-long session of relaxation yoga in the Peeler Art Center galleries. For more information visit marlaheltonyoga.com or contact Marla directly: marlaheltonyoga@gmail.com. Free and open to the public. Props will be provided.
Percussion @ Peeler

DePauw Percussion Ensemble
Tuesday, November 12, 2019, 6:30pm

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.
OctCLOVErfest

Peeler Galleries
Thursday, October 31, 2019, 4:00-6:00pm

Join us in decorating garlic with spooky and fun designs for Halloween. Free and open to the public. Garlic and art supplies provided. Garlic courtesy of I Love Produce.
Meditation in the Gallery

Peeler Galleries
Tuesday, October 29, 2019, 7:00pm

Join members of the Sanshin Zen community in meditation in the Painting Enlightenment exhibition. Free and open to the public. Zafus and Zabutons provided.
Katherine L. Ross Artist Lecture

Katherine L. Ross
October 24, 2019, 4:15pm

Katherine L. Ross is interested in clay’s physical presence in the natural world, its role in economies, politics and culture throughout history and its obsolescence in contemporary culture. She will be showing two installations at The Peeler Art Center that address very different aspects of these interests. Porcelain intrigues her more than any other type of clay because of its history. Porcelain is a status symbol valued for purity and strength. It is elegant and expensive but also used at the dinner table of families across the globe. “The Tzetzegov Erasures” is an installation developed from research on propaganda porcelain produced at the Lomonosov (formerly the State) Porcelain Factory in St. Petersburg, Russia and research at the KGB archives in St. Petersburg. This was the scene of a dramatic transition from the production of Imperial Czarist porcelain to porcelain used as an element of systematic revolutionary propaganda and the discovery of a personal family connection to this history. Related to this interest in art used for propaganda and agitprop, she is interested in the Stalinist-era commissioning of artists to re-cast revolutionary history. Rodchenko was one artist of many enlisted to falsify photographs and documents. Government directives commanded all citizens to alter their personal archives to eliminate any references to persons who had been exiled or executed. This installation examines her family history. It is the revelation of an erased family member. Influences for this body of work include Carl Andre’s 1960’s poetry and his strategies of isolation, removal, and fragmentation to examine war and cultural eradication. Re-examining specific historical records draw parallels to current political conflicts. The second installation, “The Unseen and Misremembered” is a poetic examination of what we know, see and remember of the physical world around us. Much of the natural world is concealed or obscured from us. We think we know. Katherine explained, “I think I know clay. I walk over the clay under my house and the clay under all of Chicago every day but it is unseen. I stripped away all of the vegetation in the field by my barn and exposed the clay surface I have never seen. I strapped a video camera under the belly of my mule and rode her all over that field. With every step the clay flew into the air. I replanted the field and don’t see the clay anymore.” Clay/soil borings are pipes driven 30 to 40 feet into the clay ground. Pipes filled with clay to be tested before a skyscraper is built on top of it. We never see the exposed clay in Chicago. Encyclopedias were written to record and explain everything. Hundreds of years ago scientists travelled the earth in search of the unknown and unseen. One returned to France, hired an artist to draw the animals from his description for the encyclopedia he was writing. Misremembered or inaccurately explained, the artist drew the mule.” Both installations are a search for ultimately understanding the unknown.
Tyler Dylan Lotz Artist Lecture

Tyler Dylan Lotz
September 19, 2019, 4:15pm

Join us in the Peeler Auditorium on September 19th, at 4:15pm for an artist talk by exhibiting ceramicist, Tyler Dylan Lotz. Currently a professor at Illinois State University, Lotz's work has been shown previously in both solo and group exhibitions at venues including the Elmhurst Art Museum – Elmhurst, Illinois, Harvey/Meadows Gallery - Aspen, Co, Dubhe Carreño Gallery - Chicago IL, Cervini Haas Gallery/Gallery Materia - Scottsdale, AZ, Cross-Mackenzie Gallery - Washington DC, Franklin Parrasch Gallery - NYC, Santa Fe Clay – NM, The Clay Studio – Philadelphia, PA, and SOFA Chicago. Additionally, his work has been presented abroad at The First World Ceramic Biennale Korea and 2010 Vallauris Biennale Internationale in Vallauris, France. Tyler’s work has been acquired by collections including the Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, in Missouri, and the Icheon World Ceramic Center in Korea. Publications including Ceramics Monthly, American Craft, Studio Potter and the Clay In Art International Yearbook have featured his work. He has been an artist in residence at the Archie Bray Foundation and the Red Lodge Clay Center in Montana, as well as the Watershed Center for Ceramics in Newcastle, Maine. In 2010, he was one of 12 international artists invited to make and exhibit work in Walbrzych, Poland as a member of the XXXIV International Ceramics Symposium “Porcelain Another Way.” Having received his BFA from Penn State and his MFA from the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University, we are very excited to have his work on display here at the Peeler Art Center this semester.
Painting Enlightenment Poetry Reading

Peeler Galleries
Thursday, September 13, 2019, 11:40am

Listen to a recitation of contemplative poems while viewing the original works of art that inspired them. Come enjoy this cultural and aesthetic experience that illuminates the depth of meaning and animates the spirit of the art on exhibit.
Paula Arai Lecture

Paula Arai
Thursday, September 12, 2019, 7:00pm

Join us in the Peeler Auditorium on Thursday, September 12, at 7PM for a talk with curator and Louisiana State University (LSU) associate professor, Paula Arai. Arai will discuss the soon to be opened Painting Enlightenment exhibit on display this semester in the lower gallery of the Peeler Art Center. Currently holding the Urmila Gopal Singhal Professorship in Religions of India at LSU, Arai obtained her Ph.D. in Buddhist Studies from Harvard University in 1993. In the following years, she taught at Brown University, Vanderbilt University, Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, and Carleton College. In 2007, she joined the Religious Studies faculty at LSU. From 2010 to 2013, she served as the section head for Religious Studies. She is also a member of the faculties of Asian Studies, Women's and Gender Studies, and Chinese Culture & Commerce at LSU.