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Past Exhbitions -- September 2006
14th Annual All-Florida Juried Exhibition
This exhibition features 45 works chosen from over 400 entries of Florida artists. Guest juror Dr. Donald Kuspit is an art critic and professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook. He is a contributing editor at Artforum, Sculpture, and New Art Examiner, and editor of Art Criticism. He has been awarded fellowships from the Ford Foundation, the Fulbright Commission, the NEA and Guggenheim Foundation.
Virginia Beth Shields: On Becoming and Remnants
Lakeland resident Virginia Beth Shields is descended from a long line of South Carolina sharecroppers, and her ghostly black-and-white photographs and installations capture people and places from an American South that is quickly fading into history. Shields holds an MFA from USF and a BFA from Converse College. "On Becoming" is a series of 20 photographs which use the Southern storytelling tradition to deliberate issues such as nesting, gender relationships, pregnancy, childbirth, and child labor for working-class poor women in the 1930s-40s Cherokee Foothills. Her new installation "Remnants" reflects life in the mill villages for the descendents of sharecroppers. This work gives voice to Southern women during the 1950s.
Tomorrow's Drawings Today:
Curated by Sandy Besser
Renowned collector and curator Sandy Besser introduces our community to the cutting-edge drawings of "under-recognized" artists from all over the country, including William Fogg, Bart Johnson, Xiaoqing Ding, Gaspar Enrique, and Victoria Carlson. Sandy Besser has been collecting art for forty years. His focus has been drawing, ceramic sculpture and vessels and art from the tribal cultures of several continents. He has served as Chairman of the Board of the Arkansas Arts Center, Treasurer of the America Craft Council and Chairman of the Museum of New Mexico Foundation. He serves on the Board of the National Council of the Fine Arts Museum at San Francisco. Currently selections from his collections are on exhibit at the Museum of International Folk Art and the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe, the San Francisco International Airport (courtesy of the de Young Museum), and the Copia Museum of Food, Wine and Art in Napa, California.
Let's Play! Annual Summer Camp Exhibition
This exhibition features work from students in the Center's 9-week summer camp program.
