EXHIBITIONS & EVENTS SCHEDULE 2019
Excavations; The Prints of Julie Mehretu
is organized by Highpoint Editions, Minneapolis
August 23 – October 26, 2019
Public Reception, Friday, August 23, 5-7pm
Excavations; The Prints of Julie Mehretu is a spectacular collection of Mehretu’s work in the medium of printmaking. Best known for her large-scale paintings and drawings, Mehretu layers maps, urban planning grids and architectural renderings with whorls of abstract markings and bright, colorful shapes. Mehretu has completed collaborative projects at professional printmaking studios across the country, among them Highpoint Editions, where she produced Entropia and Entropia: Construction. Today, printmaking is a vital part of Mehretu’s creative process. Julie Mehretu is the recipient of numerous awards including the MacArthur Fellowship and the US Department of State Medal of Arts.
Dana Oldfather: Out of the Woods Into the Weeds
August 23 – October 26, 2019
Public Reception, Friday, August 23, 5-7pm
Dana Oldfather celebrates paint and the oddity of human experience with a focus on femininity and motherhood. Her large, abstract paintings reveal fantastical spaces and intertwined figures in a chaotic, yet whimsical arrangement. They underscore the inherent emotional conflict of parenting young children, and the fragility of comfort and happiness in America today. Dana Oldfather has twice received the Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award and her paintings are part of numerous public and corporate collections.
Whitney Tressel: America Still
August 23 – October 26, 2019
Public Reception, Friday, August 23, 5-7pm
Our inaugural Emerging Artist Exhibition. Whitney Tressel is a travel photographer whose photographic talents have impacted such organizations as Google, National Geographic, New York Times Student Journeys, Budget Travel Magazine and Esquire Magazine. For the past two years she has traversed North America, solo, in her 1985 Toyota Dolphin truck camper capturing a sense of place amongst our diverse sets of American landscape
Whitney Tressel, Department of Art Lecture Series
August 26, 2019, 5:10pm
Dick Von Kiel: aleatoric composition for programmed audio files
September 11, 2019, 5:30pm
24th Annual MAD About the Arts Benefit
Friday, September 27, 2019, 7-10pm
Tickets $50/$75
The McDonough Museum of Art and WYSU would like you to join us for the new fall MAD About the Arts. We are celebrating the 50th Anniversary of WYSU with an evening of contemporary art, music, dancing, wine/beer tasting and food sampling. An expanded dance floor on the tented McDonough patio will create more space for seating, mingling and viewing artwork in the Museum's interior. In addition, the galleries will feature a small jazz ensemble along with new food and beverage vendors. In an effort to make the evening more affordable we have lowered the ticket prices to $50 & $75. Please consider supporting WYSU or the McDonough Museum of Art for an additional ticket discount.
Dana Oldfather, Artist Lecture
October 17, 2019, 5:10pm
Maria Elena VERsari, Department of Art Lecture Series
October 22, 2019, 5:10pm
TIME & PUNISHMENT BY SPOONBEAMS- DANA AT THE MCDONOUGH
October 23, 2019, 7:30pm
Join Spoonbeams for a night of new music and uncomfortable silences. They are not performing 4'33" this year, so where are the silences from? Come find out at the performance.
OCTUBAFEST - DANA AT THE MCDONOUGH
October 25, 2019, 6:00pm
Uno Lady, Emerging Performance Artist
November 6, 2019, 5:30pm
Part of the MUSE series featuring innovative expressions of contemporary culture.
Open Projector Night
November 13, 2019, 5:30pm
Open Projector is an open mic style event featuring short film and video projects by regional artists that run the gamut of styles and themes.
WORLD PREMIERES BY DANA SCHOOL OF MUSIC STUDENT COMPOSERS
November 14, 2019, 7:30pm
FALL GRADUATING BFA EXHIBITION
November 22 – December 14, 2019
Public Reception, Friday, November 22, 5-7pm
An exhibition of work by students graduating in the fall semester from the Department of Art at YSU.
DANA FACULTY CHAMBER MUSIC FEATURING GUEST COMPOSER FORREST PIERCE
December 2, 2019, 5pm
Part of the MUSE series featuring innovative expressions of contemporary culture.