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Natalija Mijatovic (b. Belgrade, Serbia 1974) received a B.F.A. from the University of Montenegro, and a M.F.A. in painting from the Pennsylvania Academy of The Fine Arts. Mijatovic has exhibited internationally in many solo and invitational exhibits: CUE Art Foundation in New York; Museum of American Art, Philadelphia; Moderne Kunst Aus Montenegro – Stephansdom, Vienna, Austria; Anthony Brunelli Fine Arts Gallery, Binghamton, U.S.A.; International Festival of Alternative Cultural Exchange (F.A.C.E.) – Belgrade and Novi Sad, Serbia; Cluj and Bucharest, Romania; Plovdiv and Sofia, Bulgaria; Sarajevo, Bosnia; Strasbourg, France; Eindhoven, The Netherlands; and Utopia Station at the 50th Venice Biennial, Italy. Mijatovic is a recipient of many international awards including the Joan Mitchell Foundation M.F.A. Grant, New York; Faculty Excellence Award at the Savannah College of Art and Design, GA; Center For Contemporary Art Award in Podgorica, Montenegro; and residencies such is Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France. She is currently a professor and chair of Department of Art and Design, Binghamton University. Artist Statement: Internally, I dwell in uninhabited residual landscapes of urban decay and gray facades of soc-realist architecture of Eastern Europe. I remember my previous life as a wintery silence of an empty city, ashes of the burnt home, and snow. General theme of my work is industrial landscape, my recurrent interest in manmade structures and objects defined by the quiet void of human presence. My approach is an amalgam of extracting visual shapes from their logical setting (electric power plants, wiring systems, factory interiors) taken out of the context, yet realistically rendered; and juxtaposing them against flat or sub-spatial backgrounds. The underlying grid system references industrial spaces with a rich history of human activity, alluded to through architectural forms. Multilayered veils of thin glazed surfaces reduce industrial structures to a residual patina that recalls space and time. This creates the idea of traces of human presence felt in the residue of the space’s emptiness. These traces are revealed in the subtle implications of representational imagery like wire, electrical equipment, and wooden beams, and yet they are abstracted so that their presence borders on the surreal. Subtle linear system ties my entire oeuvre together: the structure remains intact beneath the curtain that the viewer navigates, recalling their own experiences and nostalgic inference associated with these now unoccupied industrial spaces and landscapes.

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Come learn about Federal Frenzy music festival!

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For the past ​4 decades, residents of Youngstown and the surrounding communities have had the opportunity to experience the combined magic of music and art on Wednesdays, when The Butler Institute of American Art and Dana School of Music and University Theatre present the weekly Music at Noon Series. Surrounded by breathtaking American art in numerous galleries, faculty, students, and guest artists take center stage in The Butler’s Beecher Court, and audience members are treated to selections from multiple genres that range from classical to jazz, world music to contemporary pieces, pop tunes to favorites from The Great American Songbook, and more. The tremendously popular Music at Noon series promises a dynamic and ever-changing program. Music at Noon concerts are held each Wednesday that YSU is in session beginning at 12:15 P.M.

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Re-Dedication of Discovering Black Youngstown Exhibition and presentation of Public History Award

The Thomistic Institute supports presentations by Catholic philosophers and theologians on matters of Faith, History, and Modernity. Dr. John O'Callaghan of the University of Notre Dame will be giving a philosophical talk titled is Atheism Irrational? What Reason Can Tell Us

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The Dana School of Music announces a concert by the YSU Percussion Ensemble under the direction of Dr. Glenn Schaft.