Monday - Wednesday 10am - 5pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 10am - 5pm
Saturday - Sunday 1pm - 4pm
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Located at the corner of Tracy &
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Northern Michigan University
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Erica Lord, (untitled) I Tan To Look More Native, 2006, digital inkjet print
Erica Lord, Trash Totems, 2007, c-print
 D. James Galbraith
 D. James Galbraith
Hirokazu Fukawa, Blizzard, 2009, wood, fluorescent strip fixture. Installation at Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
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November 25 – December 11, 2009
Closing reception: Friday, December 11, 7-9 p.m.
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.
January 14 – February 14, 2010
Opening reception: Thursday, January 14, 6-8pm
Erica Lord
Erica Lord (Athabaskan/Iñupiaq) was born in Alaska, but abiding to her cultural tradition of nomadic living, spent the rest of her years bouncing both physically and metaphorically between her home village in Alaska and the Finnish-American nucleus of Upper Michigan. An interdisciplinary artist, Lord explores the ideas and concepts that grow from the experience of living with a multi-faced identity. Lord explores race, ethnicity, gender, and memory, hoping that through generous doses of narcissism, she will find answers. Lord has exhibited in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, the Carl N. Gorman Museum, and the Schopf Gallery on Lake in Chicago. She received a B.A. from Carleton College in 2001 and an MFA in Sculpture/Photography at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently a professor of visual arts at the Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
January 4 – May 16, 2010
MOSTLY MICHIGAN:
the photography of D. James Galbraith
MOSTLY MICHIGAN presents 55 vintage black and white photographs by D. James Galbraith that capture the everyday lives of people in Michigan and Ireland. Galbraith (1930-2002) had an extensive career that began as a United States Air Force photographer and continued as a photojournalist for numerous newspapers in Lower Michigan. The photographs and oral histories of Jim and Susan Galbraith earned their published book, “Hartland: Change in the Heart of America”, a Pulitzer Prize nomination for documentary literature in 1985.
The majority of the photographs in the exhibition concentrate on Galbraith’s work from the Hartland Project, where the artist documented the daily lives of people in the small town of Hartland, Michigan during the 1970s and 80s. Galbraith also travelled extensively, including trips through his native Ireland in 1970, 1978 and 1997, where he documented the lives of people across the country. The Ireland photographs were recently acquired by National Photographic Archives in Dublin, Ireland. Whether in Michigan or Ireland, Galbraith had a unique ability to capture the personalities and spirits by documenting the daily lives and landscapes where his subjects lived.
MOSTLY MICHIGAN is co-curated by Melissa Matuscak, Director of the DeVos Art Museum and Susan Scott Galbraith, wife of D. James Galbraith, archivist and co-author of the Hartland Project.
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.
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. |
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