It’sOur World STUDENT RESPONSE EXHIBITION

WRITTEN BY JASON E. SHAIMAN, CURATOR OF EXHIBITIONS

Miami University students have a voice, whether it be personal or collective. Through the Student Response Exhibition (SRE) series, students have a venue for that voice and a platform for creatively exploring diverse topics. For this eighth iteration of the SRE, It’s Our World, students were asked to respond to the world around them. More specifically, students received the prompt of observing, understanding, representing, and drawing attention to environmental issues that face the individual and society in this one world we share. Of the 55 works submitted, 31 were selected to be featured in our Douglass Gallery.

As with previous SREs, this juried call for student art is open to all Miami students. Interpretations are subject to the student's personal perspective, major/minor, year of study, culture, age, and experiences. It is widely known that there is a climate crisis and the planet is facing unprecedented challenges, largely due to human impact. This exhibition is developed in connection with Miami University’s 2023-2024 Focus theme of Environmental Justice.

It’s Our World is sponsored by the Art Museum’s Membership Committee. Join us on November 8, 5-7 PM, for a reception and awards ceremony, when the top three works selected by voting in the gallery will be presented and celebrated.

Awards for entries are supported by the Art Museum Members Association. RCCAM is also grateful for additional support from the FOCUS program at Miami University.

FEATURED STUDENT

ARTISTS: SABRINA

BARILONE | KAYLA

BECKER | MACEY

CHAMBERLIN | CAITLIN

CURRAN | CLAIRE

FARROW | KATHERINE

HAMILTON | ISHITA

ISLAM | EMMA JEFFERS

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VICTORIA MARX |

MAGGIE MCLAUGHLIN

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SAMMI MEYERS |

MALLORY MILLER |

LIBBY MORGAN | LINH

NGUYEN | KELSEY NOLIN

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ISABELLA OBRADOVICH |

REILLY POWERS | DANIEL ROBBEN | DAVID

SHUPPERT | RYAN SINGH |

MAGGIE SNEE | BRIAN VOGT

EXHIBITION | FARMER GALLERY

AUG 22-DEC 16, 2023

WRITTEN & CO-CURATED BY JACK D.M. GREEN, JEFFREY HORRELL ‘75 AND RODNEY ROSE DIRECTOR AND CHIEF CURATOR AND JASON E. SHAIMAN, CURATOR OF EXHIBITIONS

Representations of the past, whether real or imagined, have long been the focus of artists and craftspeople through the ages. Heritage, by definition, is something that is transmitted, passed down, or acquired from a preceding person or society. In such, the exhibition Heritage explores how traditions have been reinvented, reimagined, and reinterpreted over time.

The exhibition explores the concept of heritage through four lenses: mythologizing, romanticizing, preserving/dismantling, and future pasts. Heritage features contextual contributions from Miami University faculty and external scholars who have responded to select works relevant to the themes of the exhibition and their academic disciplines.

Primarily based on the Art Museum’s collection, this exhibition of art and material culture spans more than 3,000 years. Loans include works by several contemporary artists, from private collections, archival materials of Miami University’s architectural history, and book illustrations that link the past and present.

Exhibition and Programs made possible with support of Miami University: The Humanities Center; Department of History, College of Creative Arts Dean’s Fund, Department of Art, Department of Architecture and Interior Design, Department of Emerging Technology and Business in Design, the Miriam W. Howard Art Museum Fund.

Counter-clockwise from top left: Unknown Artist (Southern Italy from Taras), Antefix with Gorgoneion; Mónica Arreola (Mexico, b. 1976), Valle San Pedro series; Ekpenyong Bassey Nsa, (Nigerian, b. 1973), Ekpe Idem Nkanda Masquerade Costume; Nayarit, Mexico (Ixtlan del Rio style), Mesoamerican Tomb Guardian; Rick Yager (American, 1909-1995), Buck Rogers in the 21st Century; Giovanni Battista Piranesi (Italian, 1720-1778), Avanzi del Tempio del Dio Canoponella Villa Adriana, in Tivoli; Dread Scott (American, b. 1965), Slave Rebellion Reenactment Performance Still 1; Annette Covington (American, 1872-1964), Japanese Bowl and Doll; Scott Shoemaker (Myaamia, Native American), Mahkisina "Moccasins"; Daniel R. Small (American, b. 1984), Myth of the Divine; Antonio Frilli (Italian, 1860-1902), Bacchus; R. Buckminster Fuller (American, 1895-1983), Undersea Island-Submarisle; Ferdinando Galli da Bibiena (Italian, 1657-1743), Temple of Faustina; Charles F. Cellarius (American, 1891-1973), Stoddard Hall, Miami University (Oxford Campus).

HERITAGE SYMPOSIUM ~ OCT 5-6

THU, OCT 5

1:30 PM: REGISTRATION AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

2:30 PM: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW

2:45 PM: MYTH AND REDISCOVERY

Kathleen Lynch (University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics) ~ The Heritage of Storytelling and Mythmaking: Connecting Past to Present

Jeb Card (Miami University, Department of Anthropology) ~ Myth, Disruption and Heritage in Mesoamerica

Andrew Casper (Miami University, Department of Art) ~ Ancient Heritage Remembered: Representations of the Ruins of Rome

4:30 PM: KEYNOTE - Monumental Change: Recent Responses to Controversial Sculptures in America

Erin L. Thompson (John Jay College, City University of New York) in discussion with Mary Rogero (Miami University Department of Architecture and Interior Design)

FOLLOWED BY RECEPTION

FRI, OCT 6

8:30 AM: REGISTRATION AND EXHIBITION VIEWING

9:30 AM: WELCOMING REMARKS

9:40 AM: MIAMI UNIVERSITY & WESTERN COLLEGE

HERITAGE ~ Jacqueline Johnson (Miami University, University Archivist and Principal Librarian) and Robert Keller (Retired, former Miami University Architect); History of the Freedom Summer Memorial on Western Campus; Charles Cellarius – Miami’s Architect

10:30 AM: REVITALIZING HERITAGE

Jordan Fenton (Miami University, Department of Art)

Performing Heritage in Nigeria: The Artistic Philosophy of the Ekpe Nkanda Masquerade

Jared Nally (Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and Myaamia Center at Miami University) ~ Culture as Living Memory: Picking up the Threads of Myaamia Weaving

11:30 PM: FUTURE PASTS

Daniel R. Small (Artist / Filmmaker, Los Angeles)

Future Pasts - The Radical Openness of AI in an Expanded Field

12:15 PM: CLOSING REMARKS

To find out more about the symposium please visit our website. Spaces are limited - if you are interested in attending, please write to ArtMuseum@MiamiOH.edu to sign up for updates and to reserve your place.

WRITTEN BY JASON E. SHAIMAN, CURATOR OF EXHIBITIONS

The late 19th and early 20th centuries were a golden time for artists across Ohio. Doors were opening, opportunities were made and taken, and growth of women in the arts were soaring. Many women with Ohio connections, including artists Elizabeth Nourse, Alice Schille, and Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (founder of Rookwood Pottery) helped propel the state to national and international attention. A Golden Time recognizes and celebrates the work of Ohio women artists during the period of roughly 1875-1925, with an emphasis on those in the Cincinnati region.

It was a remarkable time for women who obtained much respect and recognition for their own artistic merits, received increasing artistic education and training, and moved beyond the stereotypes of needlework and decorating domestic settings. Women became successful painters, ceramists, sculptors, printmakers, and woodworkers, here and abroad. Most of their success was self-achieved. In some instances, the progressive philosophy of several male art educators made it increasingly possible for women to rise.

In addition to the rise of women artists in Ohio, many important art clubs, art institutes and museums were founded to promote educational opportunities and venues for public appreciation of the arts. Some of these institutions were founded or supported by women, further demonstrating the shifting attitudes towards women and the arts.

Featured Programs

Miami Presents: A Golden Time - Ohio Women Artists and the Turn of the 20th Century

THU, SEP 7 | NOON [VIRTUAL]

Join us for an interdisciplinary conversation with Kimberly Hamlin, Ph.D. and Curator of Exhibitions, Jason E. Shaiman, about some of Ohio’s most notable women artists and the world around them at the turn of the 20th century connected with the exhibition. [https://alumlc.org/miamioh/30926]

Historical Perspectives on a "Golden Time": Ohio Women Artists in the early 1900s

WED, SEP 13 | 5-7:30 PM

5 PM: Lecture by Kimberly Hamlin (James and Beth Lewis Professor of History at Miami University) This interactive lecture will provide important historical context for the Museum's exhibition A Golden Time: Turn of the Century Ohio Women Artists, allowing viewers to engage more fully with the art and artists on display. Dr. Hamlin will focus on women's changing roles in Ohio and beyond in the early 1900s. In addition to women and the arts, themes will include women and the vote, women and politics/reform, women and education, and women and family life.

6 PM: Gallery Talk by Christine Fowler Shearer (Former Executive Director of the Massillon Museum of Ohio and CEO of Fowler Artistic) Women artists of the late 19th century and early 20th century were not a orded the same education and opportunities as their male contemporaries. Becoming a professional artist was harder for women for many reasons, including professional training, exhibit availability, and societal expectations. Ohio artists Alice Schille and Elizabeth Nourse provide a narrative of two artists whose careers were similar in some ways, but very di erent in others. They provide an opportunity to explore the many issues women artists faced and the ways in which they could be overcome.

Reception to follow. This program is supported by a grant from the MIAMI Women Giving Circle.

Left, top to bottom:

Anna Marie Bookprinter (American, 1862-1947), Dark Green Vase with Incised Violets; Nancy Ford Cones (American, 1869-1962), Tulip Bed, LeBlond Gardens, Cincinnati, OH; Clockwise, above:

Annette Covington (American, 1872-1964), Head of a Model from Twachtman's Class; Maria Chardavoyie (American, 19th century), Cross Stitch Sampler; Elizabeth Nourse (American, 18591938), A l'abri (Mère et bébé) or Shelter (Mother and Baby)