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Bicentennial Exhibition Features Miami Faculty and Alumni Artists

From "Prague Star Series: Vessel for Libuse," 2004, copper, brass, patina and paint by Distinguished Professor of Art Susan Ewing, is included in a bicentennial exhibition at the Miami University Art Museum.

From "Prague Star Series: Vessel for Libuse," 2004, copper, brass, patina and paint by Distinguished Professor of Art Susan Ewing, is included in a bicentennial exhibition at the Miami University Art Museum.

A department of art bicentennial exhibition opens Jan. 29 at the Miami University Art Museum. The exhibition, through June 21, includes work by current faculty, retired and former faculty and alumni.

It is not intended to be a retrospective; instead, it is a contemporary exhibition highlighting 62 artists representing all media with works created in the last five years. An exhibition catalog is being produced and many participating artists as well as art historians will speak on different topics in upcoming months.

The lectures are free and open to the public and will be held at the museum. Talks in February include:

• Ellen Price, professor of art, 6 p.m. Monday, Feb. 9, "Silent Language: Seeking Personal Identity in Visual Art." Price will discuss her printmaking, especially a recent series that uses fragments of family photographs dating from the early 20th century.
• Jon Yamashiro, associate professor of art, noon Tuesday, Feb. 10, "The Way We Look: Return to the Ten World War II Japanese Internment Camps." Yamashiro will describe his visits to the places where nearly 120,000 Japanese immigrants and American citizens were imprisoned and the photographic project the visits inspired.
• Andrew Casper, visiting assistant professor, 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 12, "Miami's Madonna and the Renaissance of the Icon." Casper's presentation will focus on Francesco Bissolo's 16th century painting of the Madonna and Child, from the collection of the museum.
• Chris Payne, Miami '76, 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 19, "30 Years of Illustration." Payne will talk about his evolution as an artist. His work has appeared in publications including Reader's Digest, the New Yorker, Sports Illustrated and TIME Magazine.
• Clive Getty, professor of art, 4 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 26, "The 1878 McCullough Portraits by Miami Alumnus, De Scott Evans." Getty will talk about Thomas and Elizabeth McCullough, prominent members of the Oxford community in the latter part of the 19th century, their portraits and why the portraits were donated to Miami's William Holmes McGuffey Museum.

For more information, call the museum at 529-2232.