February 25 – April 4, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, February 26, 6-8pm
Hirokazu Fukawa
Fukawa’s work focuses on his journey deep into the story of his father. Fukawa’s father was a soldier in the Japanese army during World War II. He was a sniper. Near the end of the war, his commander replaced each soldier’s rifle with a land mine and ordered them to suicide bomb an enemy’s tank. No tank approached, and when the war ended, Fukawa’s father was sent to a POW camp in Siberia, where he spent most of his young manhood. As a youth, Fukawa learned bits and pieces of his reticent father’s past, but not the whole story. Four years ago, Fukawa decided to find out more with the intention of using what he learned for a new art exhibition. He went on two research trips. The first trip was to Japan and Northeastern China, where his father spent his youth and fought during World War II. The second trip was to Siberia. Fukawa’s original intention was to create a riddle for the viewer out of his father’s past, and to explore the connections his own father’s story had to those of modern suicide bomber attacks. Fukawa received a BA in Social Science from Waseda University, Tokyo, and a diploma in Graphic Design from Junior College of Musashino Art University, Tokyo and an MFA in Sculpture from Rhode Island School of Design. He is currently an associate professor of art at the University of Hartford in Hartford, Connecticut.
Related Events:
Artist’s Talk: Friday, February 26, 4:30pm, Room AD165
Opening reception: Friday, February 26, 6-8pm
April 14 – 30, 2010
Closing reception: Friday, April 30, 7-9pm
NMU School of Art and Design Senior Exhibition
Graduating Seniors present their work from all areas of the School of Art and Design, including ceramics, drawing/painting, digital cinema, electronic imaging, furniture design, graphic communication, human centered design, illustration, jewelry/metals/blacksmithing, photography, printmaking, sculpture and woodworking.
June 4 – July 25, 2010
Public reception: June 4, 6-8pm
North of the 45th : Third Annual Juried Art Exhibition
The DeVos Art Museum at Northern Michigan University
Open to all artists in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin living North of the 45th Parallel.
Juried by John McKinnon, assistant curator of modern & contemporary art, Milwaukee Art Museum.
Download the prospectus by clicking on this link.
Download extra entry forms by clicking on this link.
*All submissions must include an entry form. Only slides or discs of images (or Quicktime if film or new media) will be accepted for submissions – please do not submit original artwork! Limit 6 images per artist. Work in all media is welcome and there are no size limitations. Work previously exhibited at the DeVos Art Museum is not eligible. There is NO fee to enter.
Submissions are due at The DeVos Art Museum by February 26, 2010. An entry form must be included with all submissions, including e-mail submissions. Send submissions to mmatusca [at] nmu [dot] edu.
Juror notifications will be mailed out by April 26. For accepted applicants, artwork must arrive at The DeVos Art Museum by May 24. Each accepted piece must be labeled with artist name, phone number, artwork title, date and media. All work MUST be gallery ready upon arrival, no exceptions. Work not ready for display may be refused for exhibition.
After the exhibition, artwork can be picked up July 26-30 between noon and 5pm. Shipped artwork must include a prepaid return address label. The same packing materials will be used to ship the work back.
