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August 2007
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ALUMNI NEWS |
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Katzen Arts Center to Feature Juried Alumni Art Show It’s been nearly two years now since the Katzen Arts Center’s grand opening, and many students, faculty, staff, and community members seem to take the new building in stride. Still, many alumni have yet to walk through the building’s colorful, long hallways, or the art-filled AU Museum at the building’s rounded southern end on Ward Circle. While several alumni artists have had the honor of seeing their work hang in the museum, a show dedicated to only alumni art and artists has yet to transpire. All that will change this fall, when the museum will host its first juried alumni art exhibit, All in The Family, beginning Sept. 4. “After sifting through more than 150 submissions, we have chosen 100 remarkable alumni artists to participate in this show. We are really excited to see the breadth and depth that American University's art department has produced,” says Director and Curator Jack Rasmussen, CAS/MFA ’75 and CAS/MA ’83. The show will feature work by artists from A to Z – literally – including Ann Zahn, CAS/MA '67; Betsy Ashton, CAS/BA '67; Mimi Herbert, CAS/MFA '83; Shirley Koller, CAS/MFA '72; Mindy Weisel, and even a piece by building namesake Myrtle Katzen. It will also include many mediums, including paintings, photographs, sculpture, and more. Submissions were judged by Rasmussen and Professor Emeritus Luciano Penay, CAS/BA ’62, CAS/MA ’77, whose wife, Angela, is also an AU alum. The alumni art show will run through Alumni Weekend, Oct. 26-27. Several other shows at the museum will run concurrently, including a photography show by Leo Tolstoy’s daughter, Sophia; large-scale paintings by Carol Goldberg; sculptures by John Beardsley, a senior lecturer at Harvard's Graduate School of Design; and an exhibit by Keiko Hara called, Topophilia Imbuing in Monet, which reflects on global conflicts using cloth, text, and calligraphy – in context of Monet's classic work, Water Lilies. Admission to the AU Museum is free, and parking is available in the garage underneath the building (entrance off Massachusetts Ave.). Museum hours are 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Saturday. -Melissa Reichley | |||
