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Second in a series of four biannual exhibitions curated by students enrolled in ARTH 335: Exhibition Design, It’s Elemental: Fire considers how fire—in all of its forms—affects our world. Using objects from the Gebbie Archives & Special Collections and the Permanent Collection, each exhibition will explore one of the four classical elements: water, air, earth, fire.

Contemporary painter and mixed media artist Barbara Owen will talk about her career and her installation currently on display in the Weil Gallery. Owen, who works out of studios in Pawtucket, RI and Brooklyn, NY, studied sculpture and poetry, but has since focused on painting as her primary medium. Please join us for the opening reception of Simile + Metaphor: Red Necklace and Fiber/Paper/Love immediately following the lecture.

Please join us to celebrate the opening reception for our first two gallery exhibitions of the academic year. Fiber/Paper/Love and Simile + Metaphor: Red Necklace, curated by Elizabeth Keithline, explore and interpret fiber’s use and forms in innovative ways. Haas Visiting Artist Barbara Owen will give an artist talk at 5 p.m. in Ellison Lecture, preceding the reception. The exhibitions will be on display through November 3.

In this exhibition, curated by Elizabeth Keithline, Catherine Evans, Aaron Pexa, Alyce Santoro, Rebecca Siemering and Cristin Searles explore and interpret fiber’s use and forms in innovative ways. This exhibition is on display through November 3. The galleries will be closed on September 3 in observance of Labor Day, and October 6-9 for fall break.

Artist Ross MacDonald will talk about his career as a prop maker for Boardwalk Empire, National Treasure, Hateful Eight, Joy and John Wick among others.

Resonance is a color + music public art project conceived of by artist Lynne Harlow. It explores the intersection of color and sound with an emphasis on our personal, deeply subjective associations with songs and colors.

Current scholarship on medieval stained-glass windows has allowed us to appreciate more fully how they were engaged in the devotional life of the buildings they illuminate. But rose windows, which are the very large circular apertures on the terminal arms of Gothic structures, have not been included in these analyses. The conservation currently taking place at Chartres Cathedral allows us to consider rose windows with new eyes, and grasp their materiality, legibility for their medieval beholders, and meaning within the larger glazing cycle.

In this talk, Jer Thorp shares his beautiful and moving data visualization projects, helping audiences put abstract data into a human context. From graphing an entire year’s news cycle, to mapping the way people share articles across the internet, to the 9/11 Memorial in Manhattan, Thorp’s cutting-edge visualizations use technology and data to help us learn about the way we use digital technologies, become more empathetic in the data age, and ultimately, tell the story of our lives. How can understanding the human side of data lead to innovation and effective change? What value is there in the novel and interactive approaches to data visualization? And what are the business applications of creative data-focused research? Thorp teaches audiences how adding meaning and narrative to huge amounts of data can help people take control of the information that surrounds them, and revolutionize the way we utilize data.

Artist Taleen Batalian talks about her work currently on exhibition in the Weil Gallery.

Trained in fashion design and painting, Providence-based artist Taleen Batalian creates a site-specific installation that explores the boundaries between garment and sculpture, between form and function and between the beautiful and the grotesque.

Exhibition runs September 5th – October 21, 2017