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UT
Art Department CVA Project Space 2012 to feature multiple art
forms
The University of Toledo Department of Art will be hosting a unique
event in its main gallery beginning January 9, 2012. CVA Project
Space 2012 will open with a photography exhibit, a play will be
performed on two of the weekends during the run, and on the last
week of the exhibit the work of UT drawing students will be
featured.
The photography exhibit, “Millennials: A Portrait of Generation
Next,” from the class of Seder Burns,
a lecturer of New Media, teaching courses in Digital Art and
Photography, will be shown January 9 through February 5. There
will also be an artist’s reception Friday, January 13 from 6 to
8 p.m. The exhibit and reception are free events.
The works in Millennials endeavor to identify and explore
the characteristics of Generation Y: people ranging from age 18
to 29. These Millennial artists used photography to explore and
illustrate facets of personal and generational identity
including the sexuality, technology, morality, and mentality of
the Millennial Generation. Collectively, these images construct
a body of humanity, visualizing more than the face of one, but
the many faces of an entire generation.
CVA Project Space 2012 goes beyond the visual arts to include the
performing arts. “Exhibition,” a play written by UT Provost
William McMillen for the Glacity Theatre Collective and
directed by UT theatre professor, Cornel Gabara, will be
performed in the gallery space January 27-29 and February 3-5.
The play follows a couple that, each year on their anniversary,
visits the painting they were viewing when he proposed. What
might their former and future selves have to say about the life
they’ve forged together?
Tickets are $20 and are available online at
www.utoledo.edu/BoxOffice or by calling the UT
Center for Performing Arts Box Office at 419.530.2375.Seating is
very limited. The Sunday, January 29 performance is a
pay-what-you-can performance. Show times are 8 p.m. for the
Friday and Saturday performances and 2 p.m. for the Sunday
shows.
On the final week, February 6-12, CVA Project Space 2012 will
exhibit “Measure Project, Explorations in Drawing: Large scale
drawings inspired by Minimalism.” As minimalism is an art form
concerned with a highly calculated formal exploration, these
drawings are an exercise in restraint. Completed by students
from the fall semester Explorations in Drawing course, these
artworks challenge the definition of drawing and explore the
vocabulary of closely related form and content.
With the exception of the play, the exhibits and the artists’
reception are free events. CVA Gallery hours are
Monday-Saturday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 9 p.m.
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