The Halsey Institute hosts between six and ten exhibitions per year, along with a visiting artist lecture series, film screenings, symposia, and gallery talks. The focus is on the issues and images of contemporary art with an emphasis on works produced by emerging and mid-career artists of national stature. The Halsey Institute also maintains a strong international component, bringing in artists from Italy, Canada, Germany, Japan, China, India, Africa, Russia, and Slovenia, to list a few.
Fall 2008 Calendar
dec
Group Exhibition
curated by Mark Sloan
This exhibition explores the paradoxical nature of the idea of mending--be it a human who is sick, a heart that is broken, or a profound grief over a death. The patch is often stronger than the original--hence the paradox. The artists in this show probe the dualities of strength/fragility, hope/despair, joy/grief, pretty/nasty, dainty/brutal, etc. using fiber as the key metaphor. Each of the ten nationally known artists employ the yoking of opposites as an expressive vehicle. All of the works in the show contain at least some sort of fiber--string, hair, thread, yarn, etc. Fiber is the central metaphor, as it is evidenced to be visibly fragile, yet through the mend, it becomes durable, and at times, indelible.
Artists:
Adrienne Antonson, Pinky Bass,
Jon Coffelt,
Leslie Kneisel,
Nava Lubelski,
Preston Orr,
Susan Harbage Page,
Marilyn Pappas,
Mireille Vautier,
Rachel Wright
This will be the fourteenth year for Playwrights Tonight at the Halsey Gallery, creating an evening of entertainment through the collaborative efforts of the Halsey Gallery and Dr. Franklin Ashley's playwriting class. This event features readings from original plays written by student playwrights. Over the years, the plays first presented here have gone on to win first prize in the Association for Theatre in Higher Education New Play Development Workshop and the Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival's Ten Minute Play Contest. Seven of the earlier plays a have gone on to be published nationally.
